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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.
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
Location: United Kingdom. Result ... VIII BC was established at RAF Bomber Command Headquarters at RAF Daws Hill, in High Wycombe, on 22 February.
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.
Present name (Future name and date of name change), Location. (T) = Tenant, (H)=Host. ... RAF High Wycombe. 7th Air Division 1958–1965; RAF Lakenheath.
The RAF's Process and Organisation Review concluded that Strike Command and Personnel and Training Command should be co-located at a single command headquarters: it was subsequently decided that both commands should be located at High Wycombe and in 2007 Strike Command and Personnel and Training Command were merged into a single command – Air ...
Since that time the RAF has made considerable use of the term. Until early 2007, the RAF had two commands, Strike Command and Personnel and Training Command, which were co-located at RAF High Wycombe. On 1 April 2007, the two were merged to form Air Command.