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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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