Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - December 1952
[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 |
Mobile Survival and Rescue Instructional Unit | RAF Thorney Island | Station in No 21 Group Functionally controlled by AM (DDT (Nav) |
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 3 Air Navigation School | RAF Bishop's Court | |
No 2 Air Signallers' School | RAF Halfpenny Green | |
No 1 Air Navigation School | RAF Hullavington | |
No 5 Air Navigation School | RAF Langford Lodge | |
Central Gunnery School | RAF Leconfield | |
No 6 Air Navigation School | RAF Lichfield | Wellington |
Central Navigation and Control School | RAF Shawbury | |
No 1 Air Signallers' School | RAF Swanton Morley | |
No 201 Advance Flying School | RAF Swinderby | Varsity |
RAF Station Wigsley | Satellite, Swinderby | |
No 2 Air Navigation School | RAF Thorney Island |
HQ - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Cluntoe | ||
No 7 Flying Training School | RAF Cottesmore |
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RAF Station Woolfox Lodge | Satellite, Cottesmore | |
RAF Station Spitalgate | Satellite, Cottesmore | |
Group Communication Flight | RAF Cranfield | |
No 8 Advanced Flying Training School | RAF Dalcross | |
RAF Station Evanton | Satellite, Dalcross | |
RAF Station Fearn | Satellite, Dalcross | |
No 3 Flying Training School | RAF Feltwell | |
School of Instructional Technique | RAF Feltwell | |
RAF Station Methwold | Satellite, Feltwell | |
No 14 Flying Training School | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor | |
RAF Station Elvington | Satellite, Holme-on-Spalding Moor | |
Central Flying School (Advanced) | RAF Little Rissington | |
RAF Station Enstone | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
No 1 Flying Training School | RAF Morton-in-Marsh | |
RAF Station Edgehill | Satellite, Morton-in-Marsh | |
No 10 Advanced Flying Training School | RAF Pershore | |
RAF Station Long Marston | Satellite, Pershore | |
Central Flying School (Basic) | 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 Tollerton | Satellite, Syerston | |
No 6 Flying Training School | RAF Ternhill | |
RAF Station Chetwynd | Satellite, Ternhill | |
RAF Station High Ercall | Satellite, Ternhill | |
No 9 Advanced Flying Training School | RAF Wellesbourne Mountford | |
RAF Station Chipping Warden | Satellite, Wellesbourne Mountford |
HQ - RAF Manby (Station controlled by RAF Flying College)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 203 Advanced Flying School | RAF Driffield | Meteor/Vampire |
RAF Station Bridlington (Carnaby) | Satellite, Driffield | |
No 215 Advanced Flying School | RAF Finningley | Meteor |
RAF Station Blyton | Satellite (Finningley) | |
No 207 Advanced Flying School | RAF Full Sutton | |
RAF Station Breighton |
Satellite, Full Sutton | |
No 208 Advanced Flying School | RAF Merryfield | Meteor |
RAF Station Dunkeswell |
Satellite, Merryfield & Weston Zoyland | |
No 205 Advanced Flying School | RAF Middleton St George | Meteor |
RAF Station Croft (Neasham) | Satellite, Middleton St George | |
No 206 Advanced Flying School | RAF Oakington | Meteor |
RAF Station Graveley | Satellite, Oakington | |
No 210 Advanced Flying School | RAF Tarrant Rushton | |
No 202 Advanced Flying School | RAF Valley | Vampire |
RAF Station Mona | Satellite, Valley | |
No 209 Advanced Flying School | RAF Weston Zoyland | |
RAF Station Dunkeswell |
Satellite, Merryfield & Weston Zoyland | |
No 211 Advanced Flying School | RAF Worksop | |
RAF Station Gamston |
Satellite, Worksop |
HQ - RAF Benson (Station in Bomber Command)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 3 Initial Training School | RAF Cranwell | Station controlled by RAF College |
Aircrew Transit Unit | RAF Cranwell | Station controlled by RAF College |
RAF Station Hornchurch | ||
Aircrew Selection Board | RAF Hornchurch | |
Personnel Selection Training School | RAF Hornchurch | |
Central Depository | RAF Hornchurch | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry AMP (P1) |
No 1 Initial Training School | RAF Jurby | |
No 2 Initial Training School | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
No 2 Grading Unit (Airwork) | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
No 3 Wing (Digby), No 2 ITS | RAF Digby | Satellite of Kirton-in-Lindsey |
No 1 Grading Unit (Airwork) | RAF Digby |
Flying Training Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Atcham | Shawbury | S |
Canewdon (Radar) | Hornchurch | S |
Catfoss | Driffield | R |
Church Broughton | Lichfield | S |
Dalby (Radar) | Jurby | S |
Dengie (Radar) | Hornchurch | S |
Folkingham | Cottesmore | R |
Hibaldstow | Kirton-in-Lindsey | R |
Hutton Cranswick | Driffield | R |
Ossington | Swinderby | S |
Penrhos | Valley | S |
Ramsey | Jurby | R |
Rednal | Shawbury | S |
Seighford | Ternhill | S |
Sleap | Shawbury | R |
Spanhoe | Cottesmore | S |
Stratford | Wellesbourne Mountford | S |
Wendling | Swanton Morley | S |
Wheaton Aston | Ternhill | S |
Winthorpe | Swinderby | S |
Wylfa (Radar) | Valley | S |
York | Full Sutton | S |
S = Surplus to long-term requirements
R = Retention is currently required
Source - SD161 (147th Edition) - December 1952
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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