21-637: Tactical Imagery-Intelligence Wing (TIW) was a 1 Group Force Element , based at RAF Marham . TIW was responsible for the processing and exploitation of fast-jet electro-optical imagery, on deployed operations, exercises and routine training. Fast-jet imagery has been analysed from the Raptor pod on the Tornado GR4 and the Digital Joint Reconnaissance Pod on the Jaguar, Harrier and Tornado GR4. TIW
42-458: A new building that replaced the former ones. It was sold by Defence Estates in the mid 1980s to a Roger Byron-Collins company who owned Bawtry Hall for 3 years together with the nearby technical and domestic site at RAF Hemswell and the post war married quarters sites at RAF Finningley and RAF Scampton . Later the building was bought by Action Partners Corporation, a Christian organisation, and has been used as teaching and conference centre for
63-576: Is a Grade II* listed building. During the Second World War the RAF took it over and it became an RAF command centre. RAF Bawtry did not have its own airfield but instead took advantage of RAF Bircotes , which was located nearby. Here the station based a number of communications aircraft. Bawtry Hall served the Royal Air Force from 1941–1984; first as HQ for No. 1 Group, Bomber Command during and after
84-576: Is currently being used as a Luxury Wedding Venue, working with the Crown Hotel in Bawtry Bawtry Hall itself is a large redbrick house in two storeys with attics which was erected around 1785 by Pemberton Milnes, a prosperous wool-merchant from Wakefield , Yorkshire . It descended in the Milnes family for several generations before being sold to Major George Peake, a well-known amateur pilot, in 1905. It
105-583: The RAF was restructured and the Group took on its present role. The Group is responsible for UK air defence operations through QRA North at RAF Lossiemouth and QRA South at RAF Coningsby . However, since the disestablishment of Combined Air Operations Centre 9 at RAF High Wycombe , actual control of the fighters is now carried out from a NATO Combined Air Operations Centre in Denmark, CAOC 1 at Finderup. However, High Wycombe retains an air defence direction capability, and
126-691: The Second World War, then as HQ No. 1 Group as part of Strike Command up to and including the later stages of the Cold War . The famous bombing of the airfield at Port Stanley by Vulcan bombers from RAF Waddington during the Falklands War was co-ordinated from the operations room at Bawtry Hall. RAF Bawtry became the centre of the RAF Meteorological Service for many years and ceased military operations in 1986. In June 1987 Bawtry Hall
147-563: The UK Representative there could take back control over QRA South if it was necessary to respond to a terrorist threat from the air. No. 1 Group also has responsibility for the UK's Carrier Strike capability, with the joint RN/RAF Lightning Force , eventually planned to consist of two squadrons from the RAF and two from the Fleet Air Arm , which will be based at RAF Marham when not operating from
168-457: The UK's Queen Elizabeth -class aircraft carrier . Air Officers Commanding have included: RAF Bawtry Royal Air Force Bawtry or more simply RAF Bawtry is a former Royal Air Force station located at Bawtry Hall in Bawtry , South Yorkshire , England and was No. 1 Group RAF Bomber Command headquarters and administration unit during and following the Second World War . The site
189-510: The UK, as well as RAF Support Unit Goose Bay at CFB Goose Bay in Canada. The group headquarters is located alongside Headquarters Air Command at RAF High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire . The other operational group is No. 2 Group RAF . The current Air Officer Commanding No 1 Group is Air Vice-Marshal Mark Flewin , who took up the post in January 2023. The following stations and squadrons are under
210-529: The command of No. 1 Group: 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 . Two years later on 12 April 1926 the Group disappeared from
231-691: The development of the Rose turret , sometimes known as the "Rose-Rice turret". Although No.1 (B) Group wasn't directly involved in the Battle of Normandy , they did participate in the bombing of the shore and area. During this period, the group was organised as: By June 1948, 1 Group consisted of: During the Cold War, No. 1 Group also operated the Thor ballistic missile between 1958 and August 1963 (" Project Emily "), with ten squadrons each with three missiles being equipped with
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#1733092935623252-584: The imagery. On 1 April 2016, TIW merged with other ISR units to form No. 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing based at RAF Waddington. No. 1 Group RAF No. 1 Group of the Royal Air Force is one of the two operations groups in RAF Air Command . Today, the group is referred to as the Air Combat Group, as it controls the RAF's combat fast-jet aircraft and has airfields in
273-642: The order of battle by being renumbered as No. 21 Group . The next year the Group was reformed on 25 August 1927 by the renaming of Air Defence Group . This designation lasted until 1936 when it became No. 6 Group again. As in 1924 the Group was reformed the same day, this time as a bomber formation. By this time the Group had shrunk to ten squadrons, all equipped with Fairey Battle aircraft and located in pairs at RAF Abingdon , RAF Harwell , RAF Benson , RAF Boscombe Down and RAF Bicester . On receipt of orders to move to France in 1939, Headquarters No. 1 Group became Headquarters Advanced Air Striking Force and
294-595: The station headquarters and associated squadrons became Nos. 71, 72, 74, 75 and 76 Wings respectively. The Group re-emerged a few days later within Bomber Command on 12 September, but only lasted just over three months, being dropped on 22 December 1939. It was reformed at Hucknall in Nottinghamshire on 22 June 1940. On 20 July the Group Headquarters moved to Bawtry Hall ( RAF Bawtry ) near Doncaster, where it
315-774: The weapon. 1 Group had two sets of five stations, centred respectively on Hemswell and RAF Driffield . When Bomber Command was subsumed into the new Strike Command on 1 April 1968, No. 1 Group took on the old role of the command, directing the bomber and strike aircraft of Strike Command. On 17 November 1983, No. 38 Group RAF was subsumed within Headquarters No. 1 Group. In around 1984, Headquarters No. 1 Group moved from RAF Bawtry in South Yorkshire to RAF Upavon in Wiltshire . No. 207 Squadron RAF , part of 1 Group flying Devons from RAF Northolt alongside No. 32 Squadron RAF ,
336-478: Was also responsible for providing specialist training of all Imagery Analysts within 1 Group. TIW was formed in April 2002 from II (AC), XIII and 39 (1 PRU) Sqn RICs (Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre). No. 41(F) Sqn RIC became part of TIW in April 2003. The formal grouping of what were previously four separate RICs brings benefits in ensuring a more coherent approach against a common set of standards. Traditionally, TIW
357-487: Was based for 44 years, until 1983. During the Second World War, the Group was primarily based at airfields in north Lincolnshire, like RAF Swinderby . During 1940–45, the group included substantial numbers of Polish and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel. By the beginning of March 1943, the aircraft operated by its squadrons were: All of the Wellington squadrons subsequently converted to Lancasters. No. 1 Group
378-419: Was considered to be part of the role known as tactical reconnaissance or tac recce . As traditional tasking and reporting has evolved to provide a much broader, more complex and often more dynamic set of questions to—and range of products from—TIW, the term Combat-aircraft ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target-Acquisition and Reconnaissance) much better describes the role of TIW and the aircraft that collect
399-445: Was disbanded on retirement of the remaining Devons on 30 June 1984. After the end of the Cold War, RAF Germany was reduced in status to become No. 2 Group RAF . 2 Group was then disbanded by being absorbed into No. 1 Group on 1 April 1996. 2 Group was then reformed on 7 January 2000, splitting out of 1 Group. 1 Group transferred over the RAF's air transport, air-to-air refuelling and airborne early warning functions. In January 2000
420-440: Was later augmented with other units, including 304 Polish Squadron. During Bomber Command's Second World War campaign, No. 1 Group dropped a higher tonnage of bombs per aircraft than any other group, this was mainly due to Air Commodore Edward Rice who was determined to maximise bomb loads, though it was a policy which contributed in no small measure to No. 1 Group having higher than average losses. Rice would later be involved in
441-593: Was purchased by The Welbeck Estate Group. No. 1 Group Bomber Command units based at RAF Bawtry comprised as follows: – +data from: During the Miners' Strike in the mid-1980s, police officers were based at RAF Bawtry to provide a central Operations and co-ordination point on the South Yorkshire / Nottinghamshire border. The Air Training Corps 2008 Squadron is still located at the former site on Park Road in Bawtry, in
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