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The site's postal address was given as "GPO High Wycombe." [4] Whilst High Wycombe was not an official flying station, a small airfield was used in the nearby village of Lacey Green, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. The airfield was unpaved and was used for small flights into and out of RAF High Wycombe and was only used between June 1944 and late ...
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 ...
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.
On February 1, 2018, the Canada Flight Supplement indicated that runway 02/20, which was 3,959 ft (1,207 m) long, had been closed. [ 1 ] In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , the airport suffered notable cuts to its airline routes.
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 .
RAF High Wycombe is inside the village, to the north-east. The Strike Command Operations Centre (STCOC) formerly the Primary War Headquarters (PWHQ) bunker was built by RAF Strike Command on the National Trust land to the north east of the village between 1983 and 1985, in spite of opposition including a peace camp. [6] [7]
No. 1 Group was originally formed on Saturday 1 April 1918 in No. 1 Area, which was renamed the South-Eastern Area on 8 May 1918, Southern Area on 20 September 1919 and Inland Area on 1 April 1920. The Group was renumbered as No. 6 Group on 19 May 1924 at RAF Kenley , and was reformed on the same day at RAF Kidbrooke .
PTC was headquartered at RAF Innsworth near Gloucester from its inauguration until October 2006, when the headquarters co-located with Strike Command at RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire in preparation for the merger to form RAF Air Command on 1 April 2007. [2]