Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Flying Training Command - July 1965
[Command HQ | HQ Air Cadets | CFS | RAF Cranwell | RAF Manby | No 23 Group | No 25 Group | Inactive Stations | Married Quarters | Gliding Schools]
Command HQ - Reading, Berkshire
Units administered directly by Command HQ
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
Officers and Aircrew Selection Centre | RAF Biggin Hill | Functionally controlled by DGM (RAF) |
RAF Staff College | RAF Bracknell | Functional control by DCST (RAF) |
HQ Flying Training Command | Reading |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 2 Gliding Centre | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey | Station in TTC |
No 1 Gliding Centre | RAF Swanton Morley | Station in Maintenance Command |
HQ, Air Cadets | RAF White Waltham | Functionally controlled by AMP |
Air Cadet Gliding Schools | See below |
Central Flying School, Little Rissington
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Aerobatic Team ('The Red Arrows') | RAF Fairford | Gnat |
Central Flying School | RAF Little Rissington | Chipmunk/Jet Provost/Gnat/Provost/Varsity/Meteor/Vampire |
Aston Down (MoA) | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
RAF Station Kemble | Satellite, Little Rissington, station in Maintenance Command | |
RAF Station Fairford | Satellite, Little Rissington | |
RAF Station Ternhill | RAF Ternhill | Sioux/Sycamore//Whirlwind |
RAF Station Chetwynd | Satellite, Ternhill |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF College | RAF Cranwell | Chipmunk/Jet Provost/Valetta |
Satellite airfield (Cranwell) | RAF Barkston Heath | |
Satellite airfield (Cranwell) | RAF Fulbeck |
RAF College of Air Warfare, Manby
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF College of Air Warfare | RAF Manby | Canberra/Meteor/Provost/Varsity |
School of Refresher Flying | RAF Manby | |
Satellite, Manby | RAF Strubby |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
No 6 Flying Training School | RAF Acklington | Jet Provost |
No 7 Flying Training School | RAF Church Fenton | Jet Provost |
Satellite, Church Fenton | RAF Elvington | |
RAF Station Dishforth | ||
HQ, No 23 Group | RAF Dishforth | |
HQ, No 2 RAF Police District | RAF Dishforth | Functionally controlled by HQ P & SS (RAF) (UK) |
No 3 Flying Training School | RAF Leeming | Jet Provost |
No 1 Flying Training School | RAF Linton-on-Ouse | Chipmunk/Jet Provost/Vampire |
Satellite, Linton-on-Ouse | RAF Rufforth | |
Satellite, Linton-on-Ouse | RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor | |
No 5 Flying Training School | RAF Oakington | Varsity |
Satellite, Oakington | RAF Waterbeach | Station in Maintenance Command |
RAF Station Ouston | ||
No 2 Flying Training School | RAF Syerston | Jet Provost |
Satellite, Syerston | RAF Wymeswold | |
No 4 Flying Training School | RAF Valley | Gnat |
Satellite, Valley | RAF Mona |
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
Oxford UAS | RAF Bicester | Chipmunk, station in Maintenance Command |
Hull UAS | Brough (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
Cambridge UAS | Cambridge (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
Leeds UAS | RAF Dishforth | Chipmunk, station in No 23 Group |
Aberdeen UAS | Dyce (MoA) (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
No 3/4 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit | Exeter (Airfield) | Chipmunk/Mosquito/Vampire |
Bristol UAS | Filton (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
Southampton UAS | Hamble (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
No 2 Air Navigation School | RAF Hullavington | Valetta/Varsity/Vampire |
St Andrews UAS | RAF Leuchars | Chipmunk, station in Fighter Command |
Nottingham UAS | RAF Newton | Chipmunk, station in TTC |
Northumbrian Universities Air Sqn | RAF Ouston | Chipmunk, station in No 23 Group |
Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Sqn | Perth (Civil Airport) | Chipmunk |
University of Wales Air Sqn | RAF St Athan | Chipmunk, station in TTC |
Central Air Traffic Control School | RAF Shawbury | Provost/Vampire |
Birmingham UAS | RAF Shawbury | Chipmunk |
Satellite, Shawbury | RAF Sleap | |
No 1 Initial Training School | RAF South Cerney | Anson/Chipmunk |
No 1 Air Navigation School | RAF Stradishall | Meteor/Varsity |
Queen's UAS | RNAS Sydenham | Chipmunk |
Air Electronics School | RAF Topcliffe | Varsity |
Edinburgh UAS | RAF Turnhouse | Chipmunk, station in Coastal Command |
RAF Station White Waltham | ||
HQ, No 25 Group | RAF White Waltham | |
University of London Air Sqn | RAF White Waltham | Chipmunk |
University of Liverpool Air Sqn | RAF Woodvale | Chipmunk |
Manchester UAS | RAF Woodvale | Chipmunk |
No 5 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit | RAF Woodvale |
Flying Training Command, Inactive Stations
Inactive Station | Parent Station | Status |
Breighton | Church Fenton | |
Castle Camps | Stradishall | |
Cold Heseldon | Ouston | |
Duxford | Stradishall | |
Graveley | Oakington | |
High Ercall | Shawbury | |
Llanberis | Valley | |
Morpeth | Ouston | |
Peplow | Ternhill | |
Ridgewell | Stradishall | |
Skendleby | Manby |
Married Quarters (at Detached sites)
Married Quarters | Parenting Unit |
Acaster Malbis | Church Fenton |
Alford | Manby |
Breighton | Linton-on-Ouse |
Cold Heseldon | Ouston |
Duxford | Stradishall |
Rufforth | Church Fenton |
Strubby | Manby |
Winthorpe | Syerston |
Wymeswold | Syerston |
All Gliding Schools are under the direct control of HQ, Air Cadets, RAF White Waltham.
Location | Gliding School | Station in |
Arbroath | No 662 Gliding School | Royal Navy |
Burtonwood | No 635 Gliding School | Maintenance Command |
Catterick | No 645 Gliding School | Transport Command |
Cosford | No 633 Gliding School | TTC |
Culdrose | No 626 Gliding School | Royal Navy |
Debden | No 614 Gliding School | TTC |
Exeter | No 624 Gliding School | FTC |
Halton | No 613 Gliding School | TTC |
Hendon | No 617 Gliding School | Maintenance Command |
Henlow | No 616 Gliding School | TTC |
Kenley | No 615 Gliding School | TTC |
Kirton-in-Lindsey | No 643 Gliding School | TTC |
Linton-on-Ouse | No 642 Gliding School | FTC |
Old Sarum | No 622 Gliding School | Transport Command |
Ouston | No 641 Gliding School | FTC |
St Athan | No 634 Gliding School | Maintenance Command |
Sealand | No 631 Gliding School | Maintenance Command |
South Cerney | No 625 Gliding School | FTC |
Spitalgate | No 644 Gliding School | TTC |
Swansea | No 636 Gliding School | MoA |
Swanton Morley | No 611 Gliding School | Maintenance Command |
Tangmere | No 623 Gliding School | Transport Command |
Ternhill | No 632 Gliding School | FTC |
West Malling | No 618 Gliding School | TTC |
Weston-super-Mare | No 621 Gliding School | MoA |
Source - SD161/1965(3) - July 1965
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