RAF High Wycombe

RAF High Wycombe
Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire in England
Aerial view of RAF High Wycombe.
Non sibi (Latin for 'Not for ourselves')[1]
RAF High Wycombe Shown within Buckinghamshire
Coordinates	51°40′53″N 000°48′07″W / 51.68139°N 0.80194°W / 51.68139; -0.80194
Type	RAF non-flying station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Air Command
Website	Official website
Site history
Built	1938 (1938)
In use	1938 – present
Garrison information
Current commander	Group Captain Philip Arnold
Occupants	HQ RAF Air Command Joint Force Air Component Commander HQ No. 1 Group (Air Combat) Joint Ground Based Air Defence Headquarters HQ No. 2 Group (Air Combat Support) No. 11 Group (Multi-domain Operations) HQ No. 22 Group (Training) HQ European Air Group United Kingdom Space Command

Royal Air Force High Wycombe or more simply RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It houses Headquarters Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the headquarters of the European Air Group and the United Kingdom Space Command.

The location of the station was originally suggested by Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott when the Air Ministry was seeking a new, secure, site for Bomber Command away from London. Wing Commander Oakeshott was killed in combat in 1942 and is commemorated on the Naphill War Memorial and in the name of the station's welfare centre, opened in 2011.

The motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.