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    No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF (55 OTU) was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down to train...
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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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    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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    No. 53 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in 1941 to train Spitfire pilots, and disbanded in...
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    for No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF Hurricanes from RAF Usworth until No. 55 OTU moved to RAF Annan at the end of April 1942. The Spitfires of No. 242...
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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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    Worcester No. 54 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Church Fenton with Bristol Blenheim light bomber & Bristol Beaufighter multi-role aircraft No. 55 Operational...
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    Training Unit RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 56 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 57 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 58 Operational Training...
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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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    April 1942 as a satellite station to RAF Aston Down. The first users were detachments of No. 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU), flying Supermarine Spitfires...
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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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    (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 311 Ferry Training Unit RAF No. 1446 (Ferry Training) Flight RAF Central Flying School...
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  • Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 41 Squadron RAF between 1 August and 11 August 1942 with Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB's. No. 55 Operational Training...
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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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  • 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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    changed, to avoid confusion with RAF units. * = RAAF/RCAF unit that was not under RAF operational control. Transport Command RAF applied the following three...
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    April 1942 as the base for No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU), to train fighter pilots. As part of No. 81 Group 55 OTU pilots flew at low level...
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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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    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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    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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    moved to RAF Kinloss and were replaced by the Maritime Operational Training Unit. In 1956, the last Lancaster in RAF operational service left RAF St Mawgan...
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    confusion with RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire. The station's first unit, No. 2 Flying Training School (No. 2 FTS) transferred from RAF Digby in Lincolnshire...
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    operational training for the RAF's fast jet squadrons. No. 19 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed on 1 September 1915, from members of No....
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    230 Operational Conversion Unit, with No. 35 Squadron joining them from RAF Akrotiri in 1975. With disbandment of No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit and...
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    (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was a lodger unit at Brawdy, due to lack of space at RAF Haverfordwest, providing photo reconnaissance training with...
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    'lay up' their standards at RAF Cranwell or in places of worship following disbandment. Flying training units and operational evaluation squadrons have...
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    posted to No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF, closely followed by a posting to No. 4 Tactical Exercise Unit (TEU) on 26 January 1944. While at No. 4 TEU...
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    the Eurofighter Typhoon, it is currently the operational conversion unit (OCU) for the Typhoon. This unit was first raised as a reserve squadron, initially...
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    and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operational Conversion Unit, and is now the Advanced Air ISTAR Academy, responsible for training all RAF crews assigned to the MQ-9A...
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