Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - August 1940
No 21 (Training) Group (HQ - RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire)
Unit | Location |
RAF College Flying Training School | RAF Cranwell - Station in Technical Training Command |
No 2 Flying Instructors' 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, Gloucestershire)
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 | HQ and ATS at RAF Chipping Norton and ITS at RAF Kidlington |
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 - Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire)
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 |
No 50 (Training) Group (HQ - Sylvesters, Berkeley Avenue, Reading)
Unit | Location |
No 1 EFTS | Hatfield |
No 2 EFTS | Staverton |
No 6 Air Observer Navigation School | Staverton |
No 3 EFTS | Watchfield |
No 11 Air Observer Navigation School | Watchfield |
Blind Approach School | Watchfield |
No 6 EFTS | Sywell |
No 8 EFTS | Reading |
No 2 Air Observer Navigation School | RAF Yatesbury |
No 18 EFTS | Fairoaks |
No 22 EFTS | Cambridge |
No 4 (Supplementary) Flying Instructors School | Cambridge |
No 10 EFTS | Weston-super-Mare |
No 5 Air Observer Navigation School | Weston-super-Mare |
No 13 EFTS | White Waltham |
Central Link Trainer School | Elstree |
No 24 EFTS | Luton |
No 51 (Training) Group (HQ - Moorfield House, Alma Road, Otley Road, 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 54 (Training) Group (HQ - Altavista, Higher Walberry, Torquay)
Unit | Location |
No 1 Receiving Wing | Babbacombe |
No 2 Initial Training Wing | Cambridge |
No 3 Initial Training Wing | Torquay |
No 5 Initial Training Wing | Torquay |
No 4 Initial Training Wing | Paignton |
No 6 Initial Training Wing | Aberystwyth |
Source - SD161 (5th Issue), August 1940
County names used are those in use at the time
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