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Flying Training Command - February 1948


[Command HQ | No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 Group]

Command HQ - RAF Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire

Units administered directly by Command HQ

Unit Location/Address Notes
Central Examination Board Wantage Hall, Reading  
RAF Station Cranwell    
RAF College RAF Cranwell Various
Supplies Depot RAF Cranwell
RAF Station Digby   Satellite airfield (Cranwell)
Equipment and Secretarial Wing, RAF College RAF Digby  
RAF Station Barkston Heath   Satellite airfield (Cranwell)
Command Communication Flight Woodley Station in Reserve Command

 

No 21 (Training) Group

HQ - St Vincent's, Grantham, Lincolnshire

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Cottesmore    
No  204 Advance Flying School RAF Cottesmore Mosquito
RAF Station Finningley    
No 1 (Pilot) Refresher Flying Unit RAF Finningley  
RAF Station Moreton-in-the-Marsh
RAF Station Swinderby    
No 201 Advance Flying School RAF Swinderby Wellington X
RAF Station Valley    
No 2 (Pilot) Refresher Flying Unit RAF Valley  
RAF Station Worksop    
RAF Central Vision Training School RAF Worksop  

 

No 23 (Training) Group

HQ - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Booker    
No 21 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Booker  
Joint Services Staff College Flight RAF Booker  
RAF Station Church Lawford    
No 2 Flying Training School RAF Church Lawford Anson/Harvard
RAF Station Feltwell    
No 3 Flying Training School RAF Feltwell  
RAF Station Hullavington Stanton St Quinton, Chippenham, Wiltshire  
Empire Flying School RAF Hullavington  
RAF Station Kirton-in-Lindsey
No 7 Service Flying Training School RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
 
RAF Station Little Rissington Little Rissington, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.  
Central Flying School RAF Little Rissington  
RAF Station Shellingford    
No 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Shellingford  
RAF Station Kelmscott   Satellite airfield (Shellingford)
RAF Station South Cerney    
Air Crew Allocation Unit RAF South Cerney  
Air Crew Transit Unit RAF South Cerney  
Central Link Trainer School RAF South Cerney  
RAF Station Spittlegate Grantham, Lincolnshire
No 1 Flying Training School RAF Spittlegate
RAF Station Bottesford Satellite airfield (Spittlegate)
RAF Station Syerston    
No 22 Service Flying Training School RAF Syerston  
RAF Station Ternhill Tern Hill, Market Drayton, Shropshire
No 6 Flying Training School RAF Ternhill  

No 25 (Armament) Group

HQ - Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Driffield    
No 10 Air Navigation School RAF Driffield  
RAF Station Jurby Jurby, Ramsey, Isle of Man  
No 11 Air Gunners' School (C & M) RAF Jurby
RAF Station Leconfield    
Central Gunnery School RAF Leconfield  
RAF Station Manby Manby, Louth, Lincolnshire  
Empire Air Armament School RAF Manby  
RAF Station Middle St George    
No 2 Air Navigation School RAF Middle St George  
RAF Station Shawbury    
Empire Air Navigation School RAF Shawbury  
RAF Station Sleap   Satellite airfield (Shawbury)
RAF Station Topcliffe    
No 1 Air Navigation School RAF Topcliffe
RAF Station Watchfield    
School of Air Traffic Control RAF Watchfield  
Airfield Controllers School RAF Watchfield  

Source - SD161 (89th Edition) - February 1948

County names used are those in use at the time

[Command HQ | No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 Group]

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