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Royal Air Force High Wycombe or more simply RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It houses Headquarters Air Command , and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s.
It was formed by the merger of Royal Air Force Strike and Personnel and Training commands on 1 April 2007, and has its headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. [1] The equivalent in the Royal Navy is Navy Command Headquarters at Portsmouth and the equivalent in the British Army is Army Headquarters at Andover.
Ash Close, Walter's Ash, 2010. Walters Ash (also sometimes called Walter's Ash) is a village in the parish of Bradenham, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, to the west of the main village, adjacent to Naphill. Between 1983 and 1985 there was a peace camp outside RAF High Wycombe station. [1]
RAF High Wycombe: England: Buckinghamshire: Non-flying administrative support station, home to Headquarters RAF Air Command, No. 1 Group, No. 2 Group, No. 11 Group, and No. 22 Group. [16] RAF Honington: England: Suffolk: Support station, hosts initial and further training for, and is home to the RAF Regiment.
The unit is based at RAF High Wycombe. It can deploy worldwide at short notice to run an air campaign. The constituent parts of the JFAC are broken down according to the Continental staff system: A1 – PANDA (Personnel and administration) A2 – RAF Intelligence; A3 – Air operations (both plans and current operations) A4 – Air logistics
near (High Wycombe), now Wycombe Air Park: RAF Boreham: JM England Essex: 1944 1945 RAF Boscombe Down: BD England Wiltshire: 1917 2001 Airfield retained by the Ministry of Defence but operated by private contractor QinetiQ as MOD Boscombe Down. Home to the Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre and Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS). RAF Bottesford ...
No. 2 Group is a group of the Royal Air Force which was first activated in 1918, served from 1918–20, from 1936 through the Second World War to 1947, from 1948 to 1958, from 1993 to 1996, was reactivated in 2000, and is today part of Air Command.
The Air and Space Warfare Centre (ASWC) is a Royal Air Force research and testing organisation based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including at RAF High Wycombe, RAF Brize Norton, MoD Boscombe Down, and RAF Odiham.