Editing RAF Digby (section)

===Post-war===
Following the end of World War II Digby increasingly took on a non-flying role for [[RAF Technical Training Command]]. In 1948 the Secretarial Branch Training School relocated from [[RAF Hereford]] and the Equipment Officers' School was established at Digby. Between 1948 and 1950 Digby also became home to the No.1 Initial Officer Training unit, the Aircrew Education Unit, the Aircrew Transit Unit and the Instructional Leadership Course. In 1951 No. 2 Aircrew Grading School for both potential pilots and ancillary aircrew was established at Digby using a wide range of elderly aircraft.<ref name=rafinfo1948>{{cite web|url=http://www.raf-lincolnshire.info/digby/digbyhistory_ch4_1948_1953.htm|title=RAF Digby - RCAF Digby: A history: 1948 - 1953|publisher=RAF Lincolnshire info|access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref>

The station badge was awarded in July 1952 and depicts a [[Crane (bird)|white crane]] superimposed over a maple leaf.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rafht.co.uk/index.php/2016/06/17/digby/|title=Digby|website=RAF Heraldry Trust|language=en-US|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> The station's motto ''Icarus Renatus'' means ''Icarus Reborn'' and relates to the short period when the station was under 'care and maintenance' and then re-activated.<ref name="A dictionary of mottoes">{{cite book|title=A dictionary of mottoes|last1=Pine|first1=L.G.|date=1983|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=0-7100-9339-X|edition=1|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmott00tion/page/104 104]|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmott00tion/page/104}}</ref>
[[File:RAF Digby Spitfire.jpg|thumb|Fibreglass replica Spitfire Mk IX mounted outside Station HQ]]
Flying ceased at Digby when all units and training schools were disbanded or relocated during January 1953 and the station was placed on care and maintenance until October 1954 when building works commenced in preparation for the establishment of the proposed signals units. No. 399 Signals Unit arrived in January 1955 and declared itself fully operational on 15 February, located in No. 2 hangar (now the station gymnasium). The second, No. 591 Signals Unit arrived in July 1955 and set up operations in hangar No. 1 (North).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hancock|first1=T.N.|title=Bomber county : a history of the Royal Air Force in Lincolnshire.|date=1978|publisher=Lincolnshire Library Service|location=Lincoln|isbn=0-86111-100-1|page=107}}</ref>

In September 1959 the Wireless Operators' School and the Aerial Erectors' School were established at Digby to begin training their respective students. The station continued to expand its scope of operations steadily from the 1970s and into the new millennium. British Army elements arrived in 1994 and were later joined by the Royal Navy. The addition of US detachments signalled the start of yet another era in the history of Digby. On 1 September 1998 399 Signals Unit merged with the newly arrived Special Signals Support Unit from Loughborough to form the Joint Service Signal Unit (Digby).<ref>{{PastScape|mnumber=1393727|mname=RAF Digby|accessdate=5 April 2019}}</ref>

No. 54 Signals Unit was established in 2014 and provides processing, exploitation, and dissemination of all UK air-derived electronic surveillance data. The unit forms part of No. 1 Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Wing which has its headquarters at [[RAF Waddington]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Morris|first=Ady|date=December 2014|title=Establishment of 54 Signals Unit - RAF Digby|url=https://www.rafa.org.uk/Resources/.../20141127-RAFALO-Update-December.doc|journal=RAFALO Update|pages=1}}</ref><ref name="TIO">{{Cite journal|date=March–April 2017|title=Formation of 1 ISR Wing|url=http://www.theinsightonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Insight-issue-1-2017.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230114527/http://www.theinsightonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Insight-issue-1-2017.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2017|journal=Insight Magazine|pages=8–9}}</ref>