RAF High Wycombe

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RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, outside High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It was the headquarters of RAF Strike Command till 1 April 2007.
Then it changed to headquarters RAF Air Command an is the only command currently active in the Royal Air Force.
The formation of Air Command was announced to Parliament by the Defence Secretary, Rt Hon Des Browne on 15 March 2007. Air Command was formed by the merger of Royal Air Force Strike and Personnel and Training Commands on 1 April 2007.

The Defence Secretary confirmed that the Command, headquartered at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, would have a single Commander-in-Chief and two deputies. The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief is Air Chief Marshal Sir Chris Moran. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief (Operations) is Air Marshal Iain McNicoll, and the Deputy Commander-in-Chief (Personnel) & Air

The base was opened during World War II as the headquarters of RAF Bomber Command, a role it retained until the formation of Strike Command in 1968.

RAF High Wycombe is situated roughly three miles from the town of High Wycombe over three sites - No 1 Site is the command HQ, No 2 Site houses the officers' mess while No 3 site is the domestic site, airmen and NCO's quarters, MT yard, PT flight and Supply Flight.

Although High Wycombe is a non-flying station, helicopters often visit to transport high ranking officers around the country. The station is not commanded by an air rank officer (Air Commodore and above) despite a large number of the station's personnel being of air rank. Whereas most stations would usually be commanded by a Group Captain, High Wycombe is usually commanded by a Wing Commander.

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