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 the UK, as well as RAF Support Unit 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 Robert Flewin, who took up the post in January 2023. Subordinate units The following stations and squadrons are under the command of No. 1 Group: RAF Coningsby No. 3(Fighter) Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. XI(F) Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. 12 Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. 29 Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 Operational conversion unit (OCU) Battle of Britain Memorial Flight RAF Leeming Joint Forward Air Controller Training and Standards Unit RAF Lossiemouth No. 1(F) Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. II(Army Co-operation) Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. 6 Squadron with Typhoon FGR4 No. IX(Bomber) Squadron with Typhoon Tranche 1/FGR4 No. 120 Squadron with Poseidon MRA1 No. 201 Squadron with Poseidon MRA1 No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force) – Moray Flight RAF Marham No. 207 Squadron with F-35B Lightning (OCU) No. 617 Squadron with F-35B Lightning RAF Waddington No. 8 Squadron formerly with Sentry AEW1 (withdrawn from service 2021; to re-equip with E-7A Wedgetail and reform at RAF Lossiemouth starting in 2024) No. 13 Squadron with MQ-9A Reaper No. 14 Squadron with Shadow R1 No. 39 Squadron with MQ-9A Reaper No. 51 Squadron with RC-135W Airseeker No. 54 Squadron ISTAR crews Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) on multiple types of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft No. 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing History First World War 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 the order of battle by being renumbered as No. 21 Group. The next year the Group was reformed on