No. 14 Group RAF (14 Gp) was the title of several Royal Air Force groups, including a group responsible for anti-submarine activity from 1918 to 1919 after being transferred from the Royal Naval Air Service; a fighter group formed from a wing in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940; and finally a fighter group covering Scotland from 1940 to 1943.

Structure

May 1941

  • No. 14 Group RAF
  • Group Headquarters: Inverness
  • RAF Castletown
  • No. 17 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • No. 213 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Dyce
  • No. 111 Squadron RAF (FIt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Elgin
  • No. 232 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Montrose
  • No. 111 Squadron RAF (FIt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Skaebrae
  • No. 253 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Skitten
  • No. 260 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
  • RAF Sumburgh
  • No. 213 Squadron RAF (Flt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft

Air Officers Commanding

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! Date !! Air Officer Commanding

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| 20 May 1919 – 19 January 1940 || disbanded

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| 20 Jan 1940 – 22 June 1940 || Group Captain Philip F. Fullard

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| 22 June 1940 – 25 June 1940 || disbanded

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| 26/29 June 1940 - 19 July 1940 || Group Captain Philip F. Fullard

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| 20 July 1940 – 9 February 1942 || Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson

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| 10 February 1942 – 20 March 1942 || Air Vice-Marshal John D'Albiac

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| 21 March 1942 – 15 July 1943 || Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw

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See also

  • List of Royal Air Force groups
  • RAF Fighter Command

References

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