No.2 Flying Training School is a Flying Training School (FTS) of the Royal Air Force (RAF). It is part of No. 22 (Training) Group that delivers glider...
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The No. 1 Flying Training School (1 FTS) is the oldest military pilot training school in the world, currently used to deliver rotary training to aircrew...
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also for the training of all non-pilot aircrew for the RAF and is home to the Central Flying School Tutor Squadron. Although the school is nominally based...
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No. 6 Flying Training School RAF is a Flying Training School (FTS) within No. 22 (Training) Group of the Royal Air Force that delivers flying training...
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No. 4 Flying Training School is a Royal Air Force military flying training school, which manages Advanced Fast Jet Training (AFJT) from its base at RAF...
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between 1935 and 1994. From 1948 to 1954, No 7 Flying Training School was located at RAF Cottesmore, flying Tiger Moths, Harvards, Prentices and Balliols...
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operational control of HQ No. 2 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Syerston. It is now home to 612 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF as the primary military...
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at No. 2 Flying Training School based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire and 705 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) operated the Gazelle HT.2 from...
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the Upavon Aerodrome, it is the longest existing flying training school. The school was based at RAF Little Rissington from 1946 to 1976. Its motto is...
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at RAF Merryfield as 10 FTS by redesignating 208 Advanced Flying School but disbanded one month later to become No. 9 Flying Training School RAF. Lake...
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RAF Montrose became 8 SFTS on 3 September 1939 and was disbanded on 25 March 1942 at RAF Montrose and absorbed by No. 2 Flying Instructors School RAF...
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the RAF contracted further after the end of the war. The closure was short-lived and in June 1924 No. 2 Flying Training School RAF arrived from RAF Duxford...
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Training School RAF No. 11 Service Flying Training School RAF No. 11 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF No. 21 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF - merged...
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replaced all of the Harts and the school was dedicated to multi-engine training. No. 15 Service Flying Training School RAF was transferred to the base in...
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107. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Air of Authority - RAF Flying Training Schools at the Wayback Machine...
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Royal Air Force College Cranwell (redirect from No. 19 Flying Training School RAF)
follows; No.3 Flying Training School No. 45 Squadron RAF No. LVII Squadron RAF 703 Naval Air Squadron No. 674 Squadron AAC No.6 Flying Training School East...
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based at RAF Syerston. No. 22 Group (Training) RAF (22 Grp) No. 2 Flying Training School (2 FTS) Headquarters No. 2 Flying Training School (HQ 1 FTS)...
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of No. 2 Flying Training School RAF (February 1953 - ?) 'A' Flight of No. 104 (Transport) Operational Training Unit RAF (July - September 1943) No. 203...
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1999, p. 64. Lake 1999, p. 171. Lake 1999, p. 172. Lake 1999, p. 173. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6....
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No. 9 Personnel Holding Unit (WAAF) No. 23 Communication Flight RAF No. 24 Elementary Flying Training School RAF No. 24 Communication Flight RAF No....
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Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
Shawbury) – basic and advanced helicopter training. No. 2 Flying Training School (RAF Syerston) – gliding training provided by Volunteer Gliding Squadrons...
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under No.2 Flying Training School, within No.22 (Training) Group of RAF Air Command. No. 614 VGS is the natural descendant of three Gliding Schools, Nos...
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near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. RAF Barkston Heath has the Naval Element of No. 3 Flying Training School RAF (3 FTS) which, for a period between approximately...
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wider Defence and RAF tasks as directed". The station is home to the School of Air Operations Control. No. 1 Flying Training School (No. 1 FTS) (formerly...
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Flying Training School (No. 3 FTS). The school provides elementary flying training for fixed wing and multi-engine student pilots from the RAF and Fleet...
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the RAF and is now known as Tern Hill Airfield. It is predominantly used as a relief landing ground for helicopters of the No 1 Flying Training School, based...
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unit was redesignated No. 7 Flying Training School (FTS) on 1 June 1954. On 15 August 1960 the unit was renumbered No. 4 FTS RAF which is still based at...
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(access: 27 June 2019). Lake 1999, p. 303-304. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Bowyer, Michael J.F....
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Volunteer Gliding Squadron (redirect from No. 611 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF)
operate under No. 2 Flying Training School, which was newly reformed for this purpose at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire, within No. 22 (Training) Group of...
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names. The Flying Boat Training Squadron was formed on 2 January 1939 at RAF Calshot. It operated Supermarine Stranraer I, a British biplane flying boat, Supermarine...
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