Appendix VII
Equipment and Location of British Fighter Squadrons
9th July, 1940

Squadron Equipment War Station

NO. 10 GROUP, RUDLOE, NR. BATH
(Air Vice-Marshal Sir Quintin Brand)
Pembrey Sector
92   Spitfire Pembrey
Filton Sector
87   Hurricane Exeter
213   Hurricane Exeter
St. Eval Sector
234   Spitfire St. Eval
NO. 11 GROUP, UXBRIDGE
(Air Vice-Marshal K. R. Park)
Middle Wallop Sector
609 (West Riding) Spitfire Middle Wallop
238   Hurricane Warmwell
501 (County of Gloucester) Hurricane Warmwell
Tangmere Sector
43   Hurricane Tangmere
145   Hurricane Tangmere
601 (County of London) Hurricane Tangmere
Kenley Sector
64   Spitfire Kenley
615 (Auxiliary) Hurricane Kenley
111   Hurricane Croydon
Biggin Hill Sector
32   Hurricane Biggin Hill
610 (County of Chester) Spitfire Biggin Hill
79   Hurricane Hawkinge
604 (County of Middlesex) Blenheim Gravesend
Hornchurch Sector
65   Spitfire Hornchurch
74   Spitfire Hornchurch
600 (City of London) Blenheim Manston
54   Spitfire Rochford
Northolt Sector
1   Hurricane Northolt
257   Hurricane Northolt
North Weald Sector
56   Hurricane North Weald
151   Hurricane North Weald
25   Blenheim Martlesham Heath
NO. 12 GROUP, WATNALL, NR. NOTTINGHAM
(Air Vice-Marshal T. L. Leigh-Mallory)
Debden Sector
85   Hurricane Debden
17   Hurricane Debden
Duxford Sector
19   Spitfire Duxford
264   Defiant Duxford
Coltishall Sector
66   Spitfire Coltishall
242   Hurricane Coltishall
Wittering Sector
266   Spitfire Wittering
229   Hurricane Wittering
23   Blenheim Wittering
Digby Sector
611 (West Lancashire) Spitfire Digby
46   Hurricane Digby
29   Blenheim Digby
Kirton-in-Lindsey Sector
222   Spitfire Kirton-in-Lindsey
253   Hurricane Kirton-in-Lindsey
NO. 13 GROUP, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE
(Air Vice-Marshal R. E. Saul)
Church Fenton Sector
73   Hurricane Church Fenton
616 (South Yorkshire) Spitfire Leconfield
249   Hurricane Leconfield
Catterick Sector
41   Spitfire Catterick
219   Blenheim Catterick
Usworth Sector
72   Spitfire Acklington
152   Spitfire Acklington
Turnhouse Sector
245   Hurricane Turnhouse
603 (City of Edinburgh) Spitfire Turnhouse and Montrose
I41   Defiant Turnhouse
602 (City of Glasgow) Spitfire Drem
605 (County of Warwick) Hurricane Drem
Wick Sector
3   Hurricane Wick
504 (County of Nottingham) Hurricane Wick
NON-OPERATIONAL SQUADRONS
(Forming or re-equipping)
238   Hurricane Middle Wallop
1 (Royal Canadian Air Force) Hurricane Middle Wallop
607 (Auxiliary) Hurricane Usworth
263   Hurricane Grangemouth

NOTE

The normal establishment of a fighter squadron comprised 26 pilots, an initial equipment of sixteen aircraft, and a small immediate reserve (usually from three to five aircraft). When operating as a tactical formation a squadron flew normally at a strength of twelve aircraft. Alternatively a squadron might operate as two flights each of six aircraft, or as four sections each of three aircraft. As an emergency measure four aircraft were added to the establishment of each of 30 Hurricane and six Spitfire squadrons in the early summer of 1940. In theory this should have enabled each of the augmented squadrons to put an additional section into the air at moments of crisis; in practice their ability to do so was governed by the supply of pilots.

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