• No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF (16 OTU) was a training unit of the Royal Air Force. It was formed at RAF Upper Heyford on 8 April 1940 from the No...
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    Conversion units and operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers...
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  • (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training aircrew on...
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  • No. 240 Operational Conversion Unit RAF is a former Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit which was formed by a series of mergers, it then became...
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  • No. 242 Operational Conversion Unit RAF is a former Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit which operated between 16 April 1951 and 1 July 1992 when...
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    at RAF Limavady. No. 7 Operational Training Unit The School was initially No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAF which was formed on 15 June 1940 at RAF Hawarden...
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    No. 132 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF, was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, part of RAF Coastal Command. The...
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  • Buccaneer Training Flight RAF within No. 208 Squadron RAF at RAF Lossiemouth (1 October 1991 - 1992) No. 8 OTU No. 8 Operational Training Unit RAF (18 May...
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    advanced training – later replaced by the Boulton Paul Balliol which had a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF was present...
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  • No. 231 Operational Conversion Unit was a Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit that disbanded during April 1993. It was active twice, initially...
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    Lossiemouth was transferred to No. 17 Group of RAF Coastal Command, with the arrival of No. 111 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit from the Bahamas shortly...
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    Flying Training School RAF No. 41 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 62 Group Communication Flight RAF No. 62 (Southern Reserve) Group RAF 67th Tactical Reconnaissance...
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    August 1946 at RAF Molesworth under No. 11 Group of Fighter Command by redesignation of No. 1335 Conversion Unit with the mission of training fighter pilots...
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    1942 to TBD No. 1655 (Mosquito) Training Unit RAF 30 to 31 December 1944 became (new) No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF - 1 January 1945 to 1 March 1946...
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    4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. History of No. 4 OTU No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was formed on 16 March 1941. Its role was...
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  • FGR4 Operational conversion unit (OCU) Battle of Britain Memorial Flight RAF Leeming Joint Forward Air Controller Training and Standards Unit RAF Lossiemouth...
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    From July to October, No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) used the station and nearby ranges for night-bomber training. The airfield was then...
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    runway at RAF Northolt. In May 2020, the Rotary Wing Operational Evaluation and Training Unit, which had been at Benson since 1997, adopted the No. 22 Squadron...
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    1945) No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF (May 1956 - June 1961) No. 420 Conversion Flight RAF (May - June 1942) No. 651 Squadron Army Air Corps No. 1661...
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    Landing Ground of No. 13 Operational Training Unit RAF (November 1940 – August 1942) Satellite of No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF (July 1942 – April...
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    Wellington I No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Upper Heyford with the Vickers Wellington I, III No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Hinton-in-the-Hedges...
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  • No. 24 Squadron (also known as No. XXIV Squadron) of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AM OCU). Based at RAF Brize...
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    2019 as the F-35 operational conversion unit (OCU). Opened in August 1916 close to the former Royal Naval Air Station Narborough, later RAF Narborough, the...
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  • ISBN 0-86111-100-1. Operational Record Book No 751 Signals Unit (SU), Cape Greco; Terry O'Reilly (2015). The Dustbin Bandits: A Story of RAF 751 Signals Unit in Cyprus...
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    No. 303 Squadron RAF, also known as the 303rd "Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw" Fighter Squadron, was one of two Polish squadrons that fought during the Battle...
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    In March 1943 RAF Boulmer was reopened as a satellite airfield to house the advanced flights of No. 57 Operational Training Unit RAF (a Supermarine Spitfire...
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    14 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 15 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 16 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 17 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 18...
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    According to the squadron's entry in Flying Units of the RAF by Alan Lake, No. 617 Squadron was allocated the unit identification code MZ for the period April...
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    Flight RAF No. 13 Blind Approach Training Flight RAF No. 58 Maintenance Unit RAF No. 103 Gliding School RAF No. 237 Operational Conversion Unit RAF No. 611...
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    for RAF Upper Heyford for No. 16 Operational Training Unit (No. 16 OTU) to provide the unit with extra airfield space for night-flying training. Much...
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