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This is a list of Royal Air Force Commands, both past and present.

• Aden Command
• Air Command (2007 - )
• Air Command Far East
• Air Command South East Asia
• Air Support Command (1967 – 1972)
• Army Cooperation Command (1940 - 1943)
• Balloon Command (1938 - 1945)
• Bomber Command (1936 – 1968)
• Coastal Command (1936 – 1969)
• Eastern Air Command - formed on the basis of No 333 (Special Operations) Group, November 1942.
• Far East Command
• Ferry Command (1941 - 1943)
• Fighter Command (1936 – 1968)
• Flying Training Command (1940 - 1968)
• Home Command (1950-1959)
• Iraq Command (1922-1932)
• Joint Helicopter Command (1999 - ) - Under British Army command
• Logistics Command (1994 – 1999)
• Maintenance Command
• RAF Mediterranean Air Command
• Middle East Command
• Personnel and Training Command (1994 - 2007)
• Reserve Command - formed 1 February 1939, and absorbed into Flying Training Command 27 May 1940.^[1] Reformed 1 May 1946, the first Air Officer Commanding was Air Vice Marshal Sir Alan Lees. RAF Reserve Command was primarily concerned with the maintenance and training of reserve organisations.^[2] Renamed Home Command 1 August 1950.
• Signals Command (1958 – 1969)
• Strike Command (1968 - 2007)
• Support Command (1973 - 1994)
• Technical Training Command
• Training Command (1936 - 1977)
• Transport Command (1943 - 1967)

• Air Defence of Great Britain
• Advanced Air Striking Force
• British Air Forces in France

• No. 1 Area
• No. 2 Area
• No. 3 Area
• No. 4 Area
• No. 5 Area

• Training Division

• Coastal Area
• Central Area
• North Eastern Area
• North Western Area
• Northern Area
• South Eastern Area
• South Western Area
• Southern Area
• Western Area

• RAF Bengal and Burma
• RAF Burma
• RAF Far East
• RAF Germany
• RAF Gibraltar
• RAF Iceland
• RAF in Northern Ireland
• RAF India
• RAF Iraq
• RAF Ireland
• RAF Mediterranean
• RAF Mediterranean and Middle East
• RAF Middle East
• RAF Rhine

• First Tactical Air Force (Desert Air Force)
• Second Tactical Air Force
• Third Tactical Air Force
• Allied Expeditionary Air Force
• Balkan Air Force
• Far East Air Force (Royal Air Force)
• Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
• Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force
• Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force
• Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force
• Mediterranean Coastal Air Force
• Middle East Air Force
• Near East Air Force
• Northwest African Coastal Air Force
• Northwest African Tactical Air Force
• Northwest African Strategic Air Force
• Strategic Air Force

References

1. ^ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation, RAF Home Commands formed between 1939 - 1957, accessed 24 May 2008
2. ^ John D. Rawlings, 'The History of the Royal Air Force,' Temple Press Aerospace, Feltham, Middlesex, 1984, p.180

See also

• Command (military formation)
• Royal Air Force
• British Armed Forces

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