Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - October 1955
[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 |
RAF Station Hornchurch | ||
Aircrew Selection Board | RAF Hornchurch | |
Personnel Selection Training School | RAF Hornchurch |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF College | RAF Cranwell | Chipmunk/Balliol |
RAF Selection Board | RAF Cranwell | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Sel) |
No 2 RAF Supplies Depot | RAF Cranwell | Functionally controlled by Air Ministry (DD Cat) |
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 | Lincoln/Meteor/Canberra |
RAF Station Strubby | Satellite, Manby |
HQ - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 23 Group Communication Flight | Cranfield (MCA) | Anson/Provost |
No 3 Flying Training School | RAF Feltwell | Harvard/Prentice |
RAF Station Methwold | Satellite, Feltwell | |
No 2 Flying Training School | RAF Hullavington | Harvard/Prentice |
School of Instructional Technique | RAF Hullavington | |
Flying Training Command Modification Centre | RAF Hullavington | |
RAF Station Keevil | Satellite, Hullavington | |
No 1 Initial Training School | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
Central Flying School (Advanced) | RAF Little Rissington | Meteor/Vampire |
RAF Station Enstone | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
Central Flying School (Basic) | RAF South Cerney | Dragonfly/Provost |
RAF Station Blakehill Farm | Satellite, South Cerney | |
RAF Station Kemble | Station in Maintenance Command | Satellite, South Cerney |
No 1 Air Signallers' School | RAF Swanton Morley | Prentice |
No 1 Flying Training School | RAF Syerston | Provost |
RAF Station Tollerton | Satellite, Syerston | |
No 6 Flying Training School | RAF Ternhill | Provost |
RAF Station Chetwynd | Satellite, Ternhill | |
RAF Station High Ercall | Station in Maintenance Command | Satellite, Ternhill |
HQ - RAF Manby (Station controlled by RAF Flying College)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 25 Group Communication Flight | RAF Manby | Station controlled by RAF Flying College |
No 4 Flying Training School | RAF Middleton St George | Meteor |
RAF Station Croft (Neasham) | Satellite, Middleton St George | |
C & M Party | RAF Morton Hall | |
No 5 Flying Training School | RAF Oakington | Vampire |
RAF Station Graveley | Satellite, Oakington | |
Central Navigation and Control School | RAF Shawbury | Anson/Chipmunk/Vampire |
No 8 Flying Training School | RAF Swinderby | Vampire |
RAF Station Wigsley | Satellite, Swinderby | |
No 2 Air Navigation School | RAF Thorney Island | Marathon/Varsity |
Mobile Survival and Rescue Instructional Unit | RAF Thorney Island | Functionally controlled by AM (DDT (Nav) |
RAF Element, Joint Guided Weapons Trials Unit | Ty Croes | Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (OR)) |
No 7 Flying Training School | RAF Valley | Vampire |
RAF Station Mona | Satellite, Valley | |
No 211 Flying Training School | RAF Worksop | Meteor |
RAF Station Gamston |
Satellite, Worksop |
Flying Training Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Atcham | Shawbury | |
Bourn | Oakington | |
Canewdon (Radar) | Hornchurch | |
Chipping Norton | Little Rissington | |
Dengie (Radar) | Hornchurch | |
Edgehill | Little Rissington | |
Foulsham | Swanton Morley | |
Gayton-le-Marsh | Manby | |
Hibaldstow | Kirton-in-Lindsey | |
Penrhos | Valley | |
Rednal | Shawbury | |
Seighford | Ternhill | |
Sleap | Shawbury | |
Wylfa (Radar) | Valley |
Source - SD161 (181st Edition) - October 1955
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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