Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - February 1954
[Command HQ | RAF Cranwell | RAF Manby | No 21 Group | No 23 Group | No 25 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) |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF College | RAF Cranwell | Various |
Equipment and Secretarial Wing, RAF College | RAF Cranwell | |
RAF Selection Board | RAF Cranwell | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Sel) |
RAF Station Barkston Heath | Satellite airfield (Cranwell) | |
RAF Station Spitalgate | Station in TTC | 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 | Anson/Varsity |
RAF Station Hornchurch | ||
Aircrew Selection Board | RAF Hornchurch | |
Personnel Selection Training School | RAF Hornchurch | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Sel) |
No 1 Air Navigation School | RAF Hullavington | Anson/Varsity |
No 1 Initial Training School | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
Central Gunnery School | RAF Leconfield | |
Central Navigation and Control School | RAF Shawbury | Anson/Lincoln |
No 1 Air Signallers' School | RAF Swanton Morley | Prentice |
No 201 Advance Flying School | RAF Swinderby | Varsity |
No 21 Group Communication Flight | RAF Swinderby | |
RAF Station Wigsley | Satellite, Swinderby | |
No 2 Air Navigation School | RAF Thorney Island | Anson/Varsity |
HQ - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 2 Flying Training School | RAF Cluntoe |
Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Toome | Satellite, Cluntoe | |
No 7 Flying Training School | RAF Cottesmore |
Balliol/Prentice |
RAF Station Woolfox Lodge | Satellite, Cottesmore | |
RAF Station Spitalgate | Station in TTC | Satellite, Cottesmore |
Group Communication Flight | Cranfield (MCA) | |
C & M Party | RAF Dalcross | |
No 3 Flying Training School | RAF Feltwell | Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Methwold | Satellite, Feltwell | |
Central Flying School (Advanced) | RAF Little Rissington | |
RAF Station Enstone | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
No 1 Flying Training School | RAF Morton-in-Marsh | Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Edgehill | Satellite, Morton-in-Marsh | |
No 10 Advanced Flying Training School | RAF Pershore | Oxford/Chipmunk |
Central Flying School (Basic) | RAF South Cerney | Harvard/Provost |
School of Instructional Technique | RAF South Cerney | |
RAF Station Blakehill Farm | Satellite, South Cerney | |
RAF Station Kemble | Station in Maintenance Command | Satellite, South Cerney |
No 22 Flying Training School | RAF Syerston | Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Tollerton | Satellite, Syerston | |
No 6 Flying Training School | RAF Ternhill | Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Chetwynd | Satellite, Ternhill | |
RAF Station High Ercall | Station in Maintenance Command | Satellite, Ternhill |
No 9 Advanced Flying Training School | RAF Wellesbourne Mountford | Harvard/Chipmunk |
RAF Station Long Marston | 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 Carnaby | Satellite, Driffield | |
No 215 Advanced Flying School | RAF Finningley | Meteor |
RAF Station Blyton | Satellite, Finningley, station in Fighter Command | |
No 207 Advanced Flying School | RAF Full Sutton | Meteor |
RAF Station Breighton |
Satellite, Full Sutton | |
No 25 Group Communication Flight | RAF Manby | |
No 208 Advanced Flying School | RAF Merryfield | Vampire |
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 | Meteor |
RAF Element, Joint Guided Weapons Trials Unit | Ty Croes | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (OR)) |
No 202 Advanced Flying School | RAF Valley | Vampire |
RAF Station Mona | Satellite, Valley | |
No 209 Advanced Flying School | RAF Weston Zoyland | Meteor |
RAF Station Dunkeswell |
Satellite, Merryfield & Weston Zoyland | |
No 211 Advanced Flying School | RAF Worksop | Meteor |
RAF Station Gamston |
Satellite, Worksop |
Flying Training Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Atcham | Shawbury | |
Ballyhalbert | Bishops Court | |
Bourn | Oakington | |
Canewdon (Radar) | Hornchurch | |
Catfoss | Driffield | |
Chipping Warden | Wellesbourne Mountford | |
Dengie (Radar) | Hornchurch | |
Elvington | Full Sutton | |
Folkingham | Cottesmore | |
Gayton-le-Marsh | Manby | |
Greencastle | Bishops Court | |
Hibaldstow | Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
Hutton Cranswick | Driffield | |
Kilkeel (Radar) | Bishops Court | |
Kirkistown | Bishops Court | |
Penrhos | Valley | |
Rednal | Shawbury | |
Seighford | Ternhill | |
Sleap | Shawbury | |
Spanhoe | Cottesmore | |
Stratford | Wellesbourne Mountford | |
Wylfa (Radar) | Valley | |
York | Full Sutton |
Source - SD161 (161st Edition) - February 1954
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 | Inactive Stations]
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