| Balloon Command formed |
01.11.1938 |
| RAF Personnel first reporting for duty |
16.01.1939 |
| No's. 942, 943 & 944 Balloon Squadrons Auxiliary Air Force formed |
25.01.1939 |
| Barrage Balloon demonstration on Fairground, Walton Street |
23.03.1939 |
| No. 17 Centre opened within No. 33 Group Balloon Command |
28.06.1939 |
| A.A.F Balloon Squadrons to Centre |
01.07.1939 |
| Initial Balloon inflated and flown at Centre |
17.07.1939 |
| Balloon Squadrons & A.A.F embodied into the R.A.F |
24.08.1939 |
| Balloon Squadrons Flights established in committed areas |
28.09.1939 |
| Six Balloon flying at War Sites - start of Hull Barrage |
01.09.1939 |
| War Declared on Germany |
03.09.1939 |
| Visit to the Centre by HM Princess Royal |
15.04.1940 |
| First members of the WAAF to Centre |
27.05.1940 |
| Humber Barrage Control to Newland House |
03.07.1940 |
| Ultimate number of Balloons flying in Barrage - 74 |
31.07.1940 |
| Free Balloon Barrage (Albino) D-Day |
12.09.1941 |
| No's 942 & 943 Squadrons officially combined to be No. 942/3 |
01.01.1942 |
| No. 944 Balloon Squadron disbanded |
26.04.1942 |
| RAF Central School of Aircraft Recognition opened at Centre |
17.09.1942 |
| No. 942/3 Balloon Squadron moved to Centre |
09.10.1942 |
| No. 17 Balloon Centre renamed RAF Station Sutton-on-Hull |
14.10.1942 |
| RAF School of Safety Equipment opened at Station |
17.10.1942 |
| RAF School of Safety Equipment closed |
31.05.1943 |
| RAF School of Fire Fighting and Rescue formed |
18.10.1943 |
| Anti Diver Balloon Barrage over Kent began |
16.06.1944 |
| No. 942/3 Balloon Squadron to Anti Diver Barrage |
31.07.1944 |
| Hull Balloon Barrage effectively ceased to operate |
31.07.1944 |
| No. 942/3 Balloon Squadron log closed |
28.08.1944 |
| RAF Sutton on Hull to Technical Training Command |
August 1944 |
| Balloon Command disbanded |
January 1945 |
| RAF Central School of Aircraft Recognition closed |
05.02.1945 |
| Victory in Europe (VE) |
07.05 1945 |
| Surrender of Japan (VJ) |
14.08.1945 |
| RAF Central School of Aircraft Recognition re-opened |
19.01.1946 |
| No.152 (City of Hull) Squadron Air Training Corp - Lodger |
from November 1946 |
| R Aux AF No. 3505 Air Defence Unit (1950 Fighter Control Unit) |
August 1947 |
| No. 62nd RAF Reserve Centre |
March 1947 to May 1948 |
| No 3rd RAF Movement Unit |
March to September 1948 |
| RAF Central School of Aircraft Recognition closed |
31.05.1948 |
| RAF at Home - Open Day |
10.09.1950 |
| Air Squadron University College of Hull. (RAF VR) |
1951-1953 |
| RAF at Home 13th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain |
21.09.1953 |
| Presentation of Crest to RAF School of Firefighting & Rescue |
02.12.1953 |
| RAF School of Firefighting & Rescue to Catterick and Station closed |
07.10.1959 |
| R Aux AF No. 3505 Fighter Control Unit to RAF Leconfield |
1960 |
| Public Sale of Station Buildings |
17.11.1960 |
| Air Ministry disposed of RAF Sutton on Hull (except Married Quarters) |
14.08.1961 |
| Air Training Centre (using Guardroom and Headquarters) |
June 1963 - July 1969 |
| Officers and Other Ranks Married Quarters disposed to local authority |
1975 |
