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Flying Training Command - June 1943


[No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 Group | No 29 Group | No 50 Group | No 51 Group | No 54 Group]

Command HQ - Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Central Examination Board Twyford  

No 21 (Training) Group

HQ - RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Andover (Greenham Common, Grove, Ramsbury) Andover, Hampshire Station in Army Co-operation Command
No 15 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Andover  
RAF Banff (Dallachy & Fraserburgh)    
No 14 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Banff  
RAF Calveley (Bodney, Wrexham & Watton)   Station in Bomber Command
No 17 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Calveley
RAF Cranwell (Caistor) Cranwell, Lincolnshire Station in Technical Training Command
RAF College Flying Training School RAF Cranwell
RAF Dalcross   Station in No 29 Group
No 19 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Dalcross  
RAF Errol    
No 9 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Errol  
RAF Station Grantham (Harlaxton) Grantham, Lincolnshire  
No 12 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Grantham  
No 1536 (BAT) Flt RAF Grantham  
RAF Station Hucknall (Firbeck & Papplewick Moor) Hucknall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire  
No 25 (Polish) Elementary Flying Training School RAF Hucknall
Air Crew Training Centre (Polish) RAF Hucknall
RAF Kirknewton (C & M)
RAF Station Montrose (Stracathro & Edzell) Montrose, Angus.  
No 2 (A) Flying Instructors' School RAF Montrose  
No 1541 (BAT) Flt RAF Montrose  
RAF Station Newton (Orston & Tollerton) Newton, Nottinghamshire
No 16 (Polish) Flying Training School RAF Newton
No 1524 (BAT) Flt RAF Newton  
RAF Station Ossington Ossington, Newark, Nottinghamshire  
RAF Station Peterborough (Sibson) Westwood, Peterborough, Northamptonshire
No 7 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Peterborough  
RAF Station Shawbury (Condover Bridleway Gate, Perton, Wheaton Aston & Bratton) Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
No 11 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Shawbury
No 1534 (BAT) Flt RAF Shawbury
RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet Sherburn-in-Elmet, Tadcaster, WestYorkshire
Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet  
RAF Station Ternhill (Chetwynd & Tatenhill) Tern Hill, Market Drayton, Shropshire
No 5 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Ternhill  

No 23 (Training) Group

HQ - RAF South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Boscombe Down Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire  
Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment RAF Boscombe Down  
Intensive Flying (Development) Flt RAF Boscombe Down  
Aircraft Gun Mounting Establishment RAF Boscombe Down  
RAF Station Brize Norton (Southrop) Carterton, Oxfordshire  
Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF Brize Norton  
Flying Training Command Instructors' School RAF Brize Norton  
RAF Church Lawford (Snitterfield & Warwick) Church Lawford, Rugby, Warwickshire  
No 18 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Church Lawford  
RAF Station Hullavington (Castle Combe & Babdown Farm) Stanton St Quinton, Chippenham, Wiltshire  
Empire Central Flying School RAF Hullavington  
ECFS Handling Sqn RAF Hullavington  
No 3 Flying Instructors' School RAF Hullavington  
No 1532 (BAT) Flt RAF Hullavington  
RAF Kidlington (Croughton, Kiddington & Weston-on-the-Green)    
No 20 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Kidlington  
No 1538 (BAT) Flt RAF Kidlington  
RAF Station Little Rissington (Chipping Norton, Windrush & Akeman Street) Little Rissington, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.  
No 6 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Little Rissington  
No 1523 (BAT) Flt RAF Little Rissington  
RAF Shobdon    
No 5 Glider Training' School RAF Shobdon  
Glider Instructors' Flight RAF Shobdon  
RAF Station South Cerney (Lulsgate Bottom, Bibury, Long Newnton & Southrop) South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire  
No 3 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF South Cerney  
No 1539 (BAT) Flt RAF South Cerney  
No 1540 (BAT) Flt RAF South Cerney  
RAF Stoke Orchard (North Leach)    
No 3 Glider Training' School RAF Stoke Orchard  
RAF Station Upavon (Overton Heath & New Zealand Farm) Upavon, Marlborough, Wiltshire
No 7 (A) Flying Instructors' School RAF Upavon  
No 1537 (BAT) Flt RAF Upavon  

No 25 Group

HQ - Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Blackpool   Station in Technical Training Command
School of Air/Sea Rescue RAF Blackpool  
RAF Station Bobbington Nr Stourbridge, Worcester  
No 3 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Bobbington  
RAF Station Cranage Cranage, Byley, Cheshire  
Central Navigation School RAF Cranage
No 1531 (BAT) Flight RAF Cranage
RAF Exeter Exeter, Devon Station in Fighter Command
Gunnery Research Unit RAF Exeter  
Detachment from Royal Aircraft Establishment RAF Exeter  
RAF Station Manby Manby, Louth, Lincolnshire  
No 1 Air Armament School RAF Manby  
RAF Station Mona Mona, Anglesey  
No 3 Air Gunners School RAF Mona  
RAF Station Pembrey Burry Point, Carmarthenshire
No 1 Air Gunners School RAF Pembrey  
RAF Station Penrhos (Hell's Mouth & Llanwrog) Penrhos, Pwihelli  
No 9 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Penrhos  
RAF Staverton (Moreton Vallence)    
No 6 Air Observers' School RAF Staverton  
RAF Station Stormy Down Bridgend, Glamorganshire  
No 7 Air Gunners School RAF Stormy Down  
RAF Station Sutton Bridge Sutton Bridge, Holbeach, Lincolnshire  
Central Gunnery School RAF Sutton Bridge  

No 29 Group

HQ - Dumfries

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Andreas Andreas, Isle of Man  
No 11 Air Gunners School RAF Andreas  
RAF Barrow Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness  
No 10 Air Gunners School RAF Barrow  
RAF Bishops Court    
No 7 Air Observers School RAF Barrow  
RAF Station Cark Cark-in-Cartmel, Lancashire  
Staff Pilot Training Unit RAF Cark  
RAF Dalcross Dalcross, Inverness-shire  
No 2 Air Gunners School RAF Dalcross  
RAF Station Dumfries Tinwald Downs, Dumfries  
No 10 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Dumfries
RAF Station Evanton Evanton, Ross-shire  
No 8 Air Gunners School RAF Evanton
RAF Station Jurby Jurby, Ramsey, Isle of Man  
No 5 Air Observers School RAF Jurby  
RAF Station Millom Haverigg, Millom, Cumberland  
No 2 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Millom  
RAF Station Morpeth Morpeth, Northumberland  
No 4 Air Gunners School RAF Evanton
No 1476 Advance Ship Recognition Flight RAF Skeabrae Station in Fighter Command
RAF Station West Freugh West Freugh, Stranraer, Wigtownshire  
No 4 Air Observers School RAF West Freugh  
RAF Station Wigtown Wigtown Wigtownshire  
No 1 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit RAF Wigtown  

No 50 (Training) Group

HQ - Silvesters, Berkeley Avenue, Reading

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Booker (Denham) Booker, nr Marlow, Bucks  
No 21 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Booker  
RAF Station Cambridge (Caxton Gibbet) The Aerodrome, Newmarket Road, Cambridge  
No 22 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Cambridge  
RAF Clyffe Pypard (Alton Barnes) Clyffe Pypard, Swindon, Wiltshire  
No 29 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Clyffe Pypard  
RAF Elstree RAF Unit 14, Warwick Road, Elstree Way, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire  
Central Link Trainer School RAF Elstree  
RAF Station Fairoaks (Winkfield, Smith's Lawn & Bray) Chobham, nr Woking, Surrey  
No 18 Elementary Flying Training School Fairoaks Aerodrome  
RAF Station Holwell Hyde (Hatfield)    
No 1 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Hatfield  
Central Link Trainer School Flight RAF Hatfield  
RAF Shellingford (Kingston Bagpuize) Shellingford, nr Faringdon, Berkshire  
No 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Shellingford  
RAF Station Sywell (Denton) Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton  
No 6 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Sywell  
RAF Theale Sheffield Farm, Theale, Berkshire  
No 26 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Theale  
RAF Station Watchfield (Kelmscott & Wansborough) Watchfield, Swindon, Wiltshire  
Beam Approach School RAF Watchfield  
Airfield Controllers' School RAF Watchfield  
School of Flying Control RAF Watchfield  
RAF Woodley (Henley & Waltham St Lawrence)    
No 10 Flying Instructors' School (Elementary) RAF Woodley  
RAF Worcester 'Perdiswell Hall', Worcester  
No 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Worcester  

No 51 (Training) Group

HQ - Moorfield House, Alma Road, Otley Road, Leeds 6

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Ansty (Southam) Ansty Aerodrome, Walgrave-on-Sowe, Coventry  
No 9 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Ansty
RAF Station Brough (Bellasize) Brough Aerodrome, Brough, East Yorkshire  
No 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Brough  
RAF Station Carlisle (Burnfoot & Kirkpatrick) Carlisle, Cumberland  
No 15 Elementary Flying Training School Kingstown Airport, Carlisle, Cumberland  
RAF Station Derby (Abbots Bromley & Battlestead Hill) Burnaston Aerodrome, Derby  
No 16 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Derby  
RAF Station Desford (Braunstone) Desford Aerodrome, Leicester  
No 7 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Desford  
RAF Station Elmdon (Hockley Heath) Elmdon, nr Birmingham  
No 14 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Elmdon  
No 1533 (BAT) Flight RAF Elmdon  
RAF Station Perth (Whitefield) Municipal Aerodrome, Perth.  
No 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Perth  
No 1 Pupil Pilots Pool RAF Perth  
RAF Sealand (Little Sutton) Queensferry, Cheshire Station in Maintenance Command
No 24 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Sealand  
RAF Wolverhampton (Penkridge) Wolverhampton, Staffordshire  
No 28 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Wolverhampton  
No 3 Pupil Pilots Pool RAF Wolverhampton  

No 54 (Training) Group

HQ - RAF Sunningdale, Berkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 6 Initial Training Wing Queen's Hotel, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire  
No 1 Initial Training Wing Northcliffe Hotel, Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon  
Nos 26, 27 & 28 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Viceroy Close, Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham  
No 3 RCAF Personnel Reception Centre Somerset House, Bath Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire  
No 11 RAAF Personnel Disposal and Reception Centre Bournemouth, Hampshire  
RCAF Band Bournemouth, Hampshire  
RAF Bridgnorth Bridgnorth, Shropshire  
No 18 Initial Training Wing

RAF Bridgnorth

 
No 19 Initial Training Wing

RAF Bridgnorth

 
Elementary Air Navigation School

RAF Bridgnorth

 
RAF Bridlington Bridlington, East Yorkshire  
No 14 Initial Training Wing RAF Bridlington  
Elementary Air Gunners' School RAF Bridlington  
Polish Initial Training Wing Brighton  
Air Crew Refresher School Brighton  
Air Crew Training Wing Brighton  
No 2 Initial Training Wing Jesus College, Cambridge Station in No 50 Group
Nos 4, 7, 9, 19 & 20 Aviation Candidate Selection Board RAF Cardington Station in Balloon Command
Nos 1, 8, 17 & 18 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Doncaster, West Yorkshire  
Combined Reselection Centre Eastchurch  
Nos 16, 24 & 25 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Savings Bank Buildings, Hanover Street, Edinburgh  
No 7 Personnel Reception Centre Spa Hotel, Harrogate, West Yorkshire  
Air Crew Despatch Centre Heaton Park, Manchester  
Air Crew Receiving Centre Abbey Lodge, Hanover Gate, Regents Park, London NW8  
Nos 11, 13, 14, 22 & 23 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Euston House, Eversholt Street, London NW1  
Personnel Selection, WAAF Training School London  
Preliminary Air Crew Training Wing London  
Air Crew Camp Ludlow, Shropshire  
No 7 Initial Training Wing Bellavista Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall
No 8 Initial Training Wing Trebarwith Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall  
Nos 2, 12, 15 & 21 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Old Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford  
Nos 5, 6, 10 & 30 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Padgate, nr Warrington, Lancashire Station in Technical Training Command
No 4 Initial Training Wing Esplanade Hotel, Paignton, Devon  
Nos 20 & 29 Aviation Candidate Selection Boards Kewstoke, Crwt-y-vil Road, Lower Penarth, Glamorganshire Station in Technical Training Command
No 12 Initial Training Wing The New Golf Club, St Andrews, Fife  
No 10 Initial Training Wing Grand Hotel, Scarborough, North Yorkshire  
No 11 Initial Training Wing Prince of Wales Hotel, Scarborough, North Yorkshire  
No 17 Initial Training Wing

Belvedere House, Esplanade, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

 
Aircrew Officers' School Sidmouth, Devon  
No 9 Initial Training Wing Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire  
RAF Station Torquay Torre Abby, Torquay, Devon  
No 3 Initial Training Wing St James Hotel, Victoria Parade, Torquay, Devon  
No 5 Initial Training Wing The Metropole Hotel, Belgrave Road, Torquay, Devon  
No 13 Initial Training Wing Grand Hotel, Torquay, Devon  
RAF Station Whitley Bay Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay, Northumberland  

Source - June 1943 SD161

County names used are those in use at the time

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