No . 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF No . 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit is a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) radar surveillance and air defence unit . Located at RAAF Base Darwin , Northern Territory , it is controlled by No . 41 Wing , under Surveillance and Response Group . Its role is to " prepare for , conduct and sustain effective deployable Air Surveillance and Air Battle Management in the Unit ' s designated area of responsibility " . The unit was formed during World War II , and deployed in the South West Pacific . Since the war it has seen service in the Malayan Emergency , the " Konfrontasi " between Indonesia and Malaysia in the mid - 1960s , and the War in Afghanistan . History . World War II . No . 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit was formed as No . 14 ( Mobile ) Fighter Sector Headquarters at Camden , New South Wales , on 23 May 1943 , under the command of Wing Commander Gordon Steege . The following month it deployed to Goodenough Island in New Guinea as part of No . 71 ( Fighter ) Wing , and became operational on 27 June . It controlled two radar stations , No . 401 of the US Army Signal Corps and No . 305 of the RAAF . On 8 August it moved to Kiriwina , under the aegis of No . 73 ( Fighter ) Wing . Steege relinquished command on 1 October to take charge of No . 73 Wing . Responsible for controlling anti - aircraft batteries and air - to - air interceptions of Japanese raiders , the unit was renamed No . 114 ( Mobile ) Fighter Sector on 18 October . It registered its first " kill " on the 31st , when it directed the interception of a Japanese " Tony " fighter by a No . 79 Squadron Spitfire north - east of Kiriwina . On 2 March 1944 , it began redeploying with No . 73 Wing from Goodenough to Los Negros Island . Charged with coordinating air defence during the Admiralty Islands campaign , it was renamed No . 114 Mobile Fighter Control Unit ( MFCU ) five days later . It became operational on 2 April , and controlled Nos . 337 , 340 , 345 , 346 and 347 Radar Stations . In January 1945 , No . 114 MFCU was withdrawn to Brisbane , where it began preparations to participate in the Australian - led liberation of Tarakan . In April , with a complement of over 800 officers and men , and Nos . 167 , 168 , 308 , 354 and 355 Radar Stations under its command , it embarked for Morotai in the Dutch East Indies . From there it departed for Tarakan , arriving with the main invasion force on 1 May . Controlled by No . 78 ( Fighter ) Wing under the Australian First Tactical Air Force ( No . 1 TAF ) , No . 114 MFCU became operational on the island four days after the landing . In addition to its regular duties , it temporarily took responsibility for maintaining contact with No . 1 TAF headquarters on Morotai and US Army Air Forces commands in the Philippines , when equipment belonging to the RAAF ' s Mobile Telecommunications Unit failed to be unloaded at Tarakan before the departure of its transport ship . Cold War and after . No . 114 MFCU was rapidly reduced in size following the end of the war . It departed Tarakan for Australia on 3 December 1945 with No . 78 Wing , arriving at RAAF Station Deniliquin , New South Wales , on the 14th . Still under the wing ' s control , it relocated to RAAF Station Schofields on 31 May and then to RAAF Station Williamtown on 1 August , disbanding on 1 April 1948 . No . 114 MFCU was re - established under a newly organised No . 78 Wing on 24 January 1949 — " in name only " , however , as it remained non - operational . It began training in late 1955 prior to anticipated reactivation , and was renamed No . 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit ( MCRU ) on 12 March 1956 . It relocated to RAAF Dubbo and stood up as an independent unit on 14 November . No . 114 MCRU deployed to Malaya in 1958 , becoming operational at RAAF Base Butterworth on 19 August . It took over responsibility for aerial surveillance and ground - controlled interception from the Royal Air Force ' s No . 487 Signals Unit on 1 December . From Butterworth , No . 114 MCRU directed the Sabre fighters of Nos . 3 and 77 Squadrons and the Canberra bombers of No . 2 Squadron in the last years of the Malayan Emergency . It also sent controllers on attachment to Ubon Air Base in Thailand , where No . 79 Squadron was based from 1962 . On 3 September 1964 , the unit went on to a 24 - hour operational footing to support the Sidewinder - armed Sabres of Nos . 3 and 77 Squadrons during the " Konfrontasi " between Indonesia and Malaysia , though no combat ensued . " Konfrontasi " having been declared over in August 1966 , No . 114 MCRU transferred its responsibilities to RAF Western Hill on 22 September , and disbanded at Butterworth on 31 October . The unit was reactivated again at RAAF Base Amberley , Queensland , on 1 April 1968 , employing the Plessey " Hub Cap " automated air defence system , which utilised Westinghouse radar and Marconi computer programs . It was to have moved directly from Butterworth to Amberley but delivery of the Hub Cap system , ordered in 1965 , was delayed owing to programming issues . The system was also physically larger and heavier than had been anticipated , rendering it less easily transportable . In 1979 , No . 114 MCRU upgraded to the Westinghouse AN / TPS - 43 radar system , improving both its mobility and its tactical capabilities . It inaugurated the RAAF ' s Tactical Air Defence System ( TADS ) on 10 July 1985 . No . 114 MCRU was presented with a Squadron Standard on 23 May 1990 , becoming the only non - flying unit in the Air Force to receive such an honour . The standard displays battle honour s for the Pacific ( 1943 – 45 ) , New Britain ( 1943 ) , New Guinea ( 1943 – 44 ) and Borneo ( 1945 ) . No . 114 MCRU was transferred to RAAF Base Tindal , Northern Territory , in May – June 1997 , and then to RAAF Base Darwin in December 1999 . The AN / TPS - 43 was retired in September 2005 , and replaced by the AN / TPS - 77 radar . In May 2007 , a detachment of 75 members of No . 114 MCRU deployed for active service at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan , utilising the AN / TPS - 77 to coordinate coalition combat air operations . The detachment returned to Australia in August 2009 . No . 114 MCRU celebrated its 70th anniversary at Darwin on 23 May 2013 .