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In the autumn of 1957 RAF Boulmer was designated a Group Control Centre, with responsibility for the RAF Radar Stations at Buchan and Killard Point. By 1958, Boulmer was selected to be upgraded with the installation of the more modern-high powered Type 84 Surveillance radar.
The Royal Air Force's Air Surveillance and Control System is located at RAF Boulmer, and reports to CAOC Uedem. The RAF operates seven Remote Radar Heads (RRHs) across the UK, which feed back to the Control and Reporting Centre at RAF Boulmer. Under Project Guardian, all of the UK's radar stations and systems are being upgraded and strengthened.
Radar Flight (North) of the ASACS Engineering & Logistics Squadron based at RAF Boulmer has command and control of RRH Buchan and ensures its operational availability. [8] As part of a major upgrade of RRH sites around the UK the MOD began a programme titled HYDRA in 2020 to install new communications buildings, radar towers and perimeter security.
Today it is the former home of an RAF TPS 77 RRH (remote radar head). [6] RAF Boulmer is a working RAF building, which is housed in an ex-"ROTOR" R3 RAF Boulmer ('EZS') GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station & Control and Reporting Centre in the UK Air Surveillance and Control System. In terms of current condition, the ROTOR sites vary from demolished to ...
RAF Boulmer: England Northumberland: 1940 RAF Boulmer remains open, but the present radar control station is at a different location from the wartime airfield (which closed in the late 1960s). During the 1970s the former airfield communal site was redeveloped as an air-sea rescue helicopter base, which closed in 2015. RAF Bourn: AU England ...
Remote Radar Head (formerly RAF Portreath) forming part of the UK Air Surveillance and Control System managed from RAF Boulmer. [57] RRH Staxton Wold: England North Yorkshire: Remote Radar Head (formerly RAF Staxton Wold) forming part of the UK Air Surveillance and Control System managed from RAF Boulmer. [58] RRH Saxa Vord: Scotland Shetland ...
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Construction work to enlarge the bunker began in 1984. This also became the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) for radar operators migrating from Linesman to UKADGE. It operated in this role until 1 October 1993, when the School of Fighter Control moved from RAF West Drayton to Boulmer and the OCU moved with it.