Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - September 1951
[Command HQ | RAF Cranwell | RAF Manby | No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 Group | No 54 Group | Inactive Stations]
Command HQ - Reading, Berkshire
Units administered directly by Command HQ
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
Command Communication Flight | Woodley | Station in Home Command |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF College | RAF Cranwell | Various |
Equipment and Secretarial Wing, RAF College | RAF Digby | Satellite airfield (Cranwell) |
RAF Station Barkston Heath | Satellite airfield (Cranwell) | |
RAF Station Spitalgate | Satellite airfield (Cranwell) |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Flying College | RAF Manby | |
RAF Station Strubby | Satellite, Manby |
HQ - Morton Hall, Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 1 Air Navigation School | RAF Hullavington | |
Link Trainer School | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | Station in No 54 Group |
Central Gunnery School | RAF Leconfield | |
No 104 Flying Refresher School | RAF Lichfield | Wellington |
No 5 Air Navigation School | RAF Lindholme | |
Central Navigation and Control School | RAF Shawbury | |
No 1 Air Signallers' School | RAF Swanton Morley | |
RAF Station Swinderby | ||
No 201 Advance Flying School | RAF Swinderby | Wellington |
No 204 Advance Flying School | RAF Swinderby | Mosquito |
RAF Station Wigsley | Satellite, Swinderby | |
No 2 Air Navigation School | RAF Thorney Island | |
Mobile Survival and Rescue Instructional Unit | RAF Thorney Island | Functionally controlled by Command HQ |
HQ - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 7 Flying Training School | RAF Cottesmore |
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RAF Station Woolfox Lodge | Satellite of Cottesmore | |
Group Communication Flight | RAF Cranfield | |
No 8 Flying Training School | RAF Dalcross | |
No 3 Flying Training School | RAF Feltwell | |
School of Instructional Technique | RAF Feltwell | |
RAF Station Methwold | Satellite, Feltwell | |
Central Flying School | RAF Little Rissington | |
Western Union Examining Sqn | RAF Little Rissington | Policy Control by Western Union Air Advisory Committee |
RAF Station Wellesbourne Mountford | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
RAF Station Morton-in-Marsh | ||
Central Flying School (Detachment) | RAF Morton-in-Marsh | |
No 2 Flying Training School | RAF South Cerney | |
RAF Station Blakehill Farm | Satellite, South Cerney | |
RAF Station Kemble | Satellite, South Cerney | |
No 22 Flying Training School | RAF Syerston | |
RAF Station Newton | Satellite, Syerston | |
No 6 Flying Training School | RAF Ternhill | |
RAF Station Chetwynd | Satellite, Ternhill | |
RAF Station High Ercall | Satellite, Ternhill |
HQ - RAF Manby
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 203 Advanced Flying School | RAF Driffield | Meteor/Vampire |
RAF Station Bridlington (Carnaby) | Satellite of Driffield | |
No 101 Flying Refresher School | RAF Finningley | |
RAF Station Lindholme |
Satellite (Finningley) | |
RAF Station Kirton-in-Lindsey |
Satellite (Finningley) | |
No 103 Flying Refresher School | RAF Full Sutton | Vampire/Spitfire |
RAF Station Breighton |
Satellite (Full Sutton) | |
No 205 Advanced Flying School | RAF Middleton St George | Meteor |
RAF Station Croft (Neasham) | Satellite, Middleton St George | |
No 102 Flying Refresher School | RAF North Luffenham | Vampire/Spitfire |
RAF Station Desborough |
Satellite (North Luffenham) | |
No 1 Flying Training School | RAF Oakington | |
RAF Station Graveley | Satellite, Oakington | |
No 202 Advanced Flying School | RAF Valley | |
RAF Station Mona | Satellite, Valley |
HQ - RAF Benson (Station in Bomber Command)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 3 Initial Training School | RAF Cranwell | |
No 2 Initial Training School | RAF Digby | Station - satellite of Cranwell |
No 2 Grading School | RAF Digby | Tiger Moth, satellite of Cranwell |
Air Crew Transit Unit | RAF Driffield | Station in No 25 Group |
RAF Station Hornchurch | ||
Combined Selection Board | RAF Hornchurch | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Sel) |
Personnel Selection Training School | RAF Hornchurch | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Sel) |
Central Depository | RAF Hornchurch | |
No 1 Initial Training School | RAF Jurby | |
RAF Station Kirton-in-Lindsey |
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No 4 Initial Training School | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey |
Flying Training Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Bibury | South Cerney | S |
Blyton | Kirton-in-Lindsey | R |
Canewdon (Radar) | Hornchurch | S |
Castle Combe | Hullavington | S |
Catfoss | Driffield | R |
Chetwynd | Ternhill | S |
Dalby (Radar) | Jurby | S |
Dengie (Radar) | Hornchurch | S |
Edgehill | Moreton-in-Marsh | S |
Enstone | Little Rissington | R |
Folkingham | Cottesmore | R |
Foulsham | Swanton Morley | S |
Hibaldstow | Kirton-in-Lindsey | R |
Llanbedr | Valley | R |
Mona | Valley | S |
Ossington | Swinderby | S |
Oulton | Swanton Morley | S |
Penrhos | Valley | S |
Pocklington | Driffield | S |
Ramsey | Jurby | R |
Rednal | Shawbury | S |
Sandtoft | Lindholme | R |
Seighford | Ternhill | S |
Sleap | Shawbury | R |
Spanhoe | Cottesmore | S |
Wendling | Swanton Morley | S |
Wheaton Aston | Ternhill | S |
Winthorpe | Swinderby | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (132nd Edition) - September 1951
County names used are those in use at the time
[Command HQ | RAF Cranwell | RAF Manby | No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 Group | No 54 Group | Inactive Stations]
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