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Flying Training Command - July 1940


No 21 (Training) Group (HQ - Cranwell)

Unit Location
RAF College Flying Training School RAF Cranwell - Station in Technical Training Command
No 5 Service Flying Training School RAF Sealand
No 8 Service Flying Training School RAF Montrose
No 10 Service Flying Training School RAF Tern Hill
No 11 Service Flying Training School RAF Shawbury
No 12 Service Flying Training School RAF Grantham

No 23 (Training) Group (HQ - RAF South Cerney)

 
Unit Location
Central Flying School RAF Upavon
No 1 Service Flying Training School RAF Netheravon
No 2 Service Flying Training School RAF Brize Norton
No 3 Service Flying Training School RAF South Cerney
No 6 Service Flying Training School RAF Little Rissington
No 7 Service Flying Training School RAF Peterborough
No 9 Service Flying Training School RAF Hullavington
No 14 Service Flying Training School RAF Cranfield
No 15 Service Flying Training School RAF Brize Norton - Temporary location
No 1 School of Air Navigation RAF St Athan - Station in Technical Training Command
A & AEE RAF Boscombe Down
Blind Approach Development Unit RAF Boscombe Down

No 25 (Armament) Group (HQ - Brize Norton)

 
Unit Location
No 1 Air Armament School RAF Manby
No 4 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF West Freugh
No 5 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF Jurby
No 7 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF Porthcawl
No 8 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF Evanton
No 9 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF Penrhos
No 10 Bombing & Gunnery School RAF Dumfries
Central Gunnery School RAF Warmwell - Station in Fighter Command
No 1 Ground Defence Gunnery School RAF Ronaldsway
Gunnery Research Unit RAF Exeter - Station in Fighter Command
Detachment from RAE (Lodger unit) RAF Exeter - Station in Fighter Command
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Catfoss

No 50 (Training) Group (HQ - Bristol)

 
Unit Location
No 1 EFTS Hatfield
No 2 EFTS Filton - Station in Fighter Command
No 3 EFTS Watchfield
No 11 Air Observer Navigation School Watchfield
No 6 EFTS Sywell
No 8 EFTS Reading
No 10 EFTS RAF Yatesbury
No 2 Air Observer Navigation School RAF Yatesbury
No 18 EFTS Fairoaks Woking
No 22 EFTS Cambridge
No 4 (Supplementary) Flying Instructors School Cambridge
No 5 Air Observer Navigation School Weston-super-Mare
No 6 Air Observer Navigation School Staverton
No 13 EFTS White Waltham

No 51 (Training) Group (HQ - Leeds)

Unit Location
No 4 EFTS Brough
No 5 EFTS Meir
No 7 EFTS Desford
No 9 EFTS Ansty
No 4 Air Observer Navigation School Ansty
No 11 EFTS Perth
No 1 Air Observer Navigation School Prestwick
No 12 EFTS Prestwick
No 14 EFTS Elmdon
No 15 EFTS Redhill
No 16 EFTS Derby
No 24 EFTS Belfast

No 54 (Training) Group (HQ - Reading)

Unit Location
No 1 Receiving Wing Babbacombe
No 2 Initial Training Wing Cambridge
No 3 Initial Training Wing Torquay
No 4 Initial Training Wing Torquay
No 5 Initial Training Wing Paignton

Source - SD161 (4th Issue), Jul 1940

County names used are those in use at the time

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