No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF (55 OTU) was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down to train...
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(Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training aircrew on...
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Worcester No. 54 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Church Fenton with Bristol Blenheim light bomber & Bristol Beaufighter multi-role aircraft No. 55 Operational...
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No. 53 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in 1941 to train Spitfire pilots, and disbanded in...
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Conversion units and operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers...
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(Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 311 Ferry Training Unit RAF No. 1446 (Ferry Training) Flight RAF Central Flying School...
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April 1942 as the base for No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU), to train fighter pilots. As part of No. 81 Group 55 OTU pilots flew at low level...
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Squadron. No. 207 Squadron, becoming the second Lightning squadron to be based at RAF Marham when it reformed on 1 August 2019 as the F-35 operational conversion...
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for No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF Hurricanes from RAF Usworth until No. 55 OTU moved to RAF Annan at the end of April 1942. The Spitfires of No. 242...
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Middle Wallop Flying Station (redirect from No. 43 Operational Training Unit RAF)
Flying Training School RAF No. 41 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 62 Group Communication Flight RAF No. 62 (Southern Reserve) Group RAF 67th Tactical Reconnaissance...
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changed, to avoid confusion with RAF units. * = RAAF/RCAF unit that was not under RAF operational control. Transport Command RAF applied the following three...
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Unit (Fleet Air Arm) No. 64 (R) Squadron – Operational Conversion Unit (RAF) Phantom Training Flight – Operational Conversion Unit (RAF) FGR.2 Close air support...
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Outline of the British Royal Air Force at the end of the Cold War (category Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force)
C3 No. 70 Squadron RAF — tactical airlift, Hercules C1 / C3 No. 242 Operational Conversion Unit RAF, (Hercules C1 / C3 RAF Marham No. 27 Squadron RAF —...
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Miles Master (section Operational history)
Training Unit RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 56 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 57 Operational Training Unit RAF No. 58 Operational Training...
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April 1942 as a satellite station to RAF Aston Down. The first users were detachments of No. 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU), flying Supermarine Spitfires...
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No. 234 Squadron RAF had a long career within the RAF, being operational on flying boats in World War I and on fighter aircraft in World War II. After...
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and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operational Conversion Unit, and is now the Advanced Air ISTAR Academy, responsible for training all RAF crews assigned to the MQ-9A...
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1945) No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF (May 1956 - June 1961) No. 420 Conversion Flight RAF (May - June 1942) No. 651 Squadron Army Air Corps No. 1661...
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List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons (redirect from List of RAF squadrons)
'lay up' their standards at RAF Cranwell or in places of worship following disbandment. Flying training units and operational evaluation squadrons have...
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No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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School RAF (1952-54) No. 1 Refresher School RAF formed from Refresher Flight of No. 17 SFTS. No. 17 Operational Training Unit RAF (1940-47) No. 201 Advanced...
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1916 and it became No. 5 Training Depot Station in 1917. Following the formation of the Royal Air Force, Easton on the Hill became RAF Collyweston on 1...
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BAE Systems Hawk (section Operational history)
current) No. 19 (R) Squadron (1992–2011) No. 92 (R) Squadron (1992–1994) Joint Forward Air Controller Training and Standards Unit (JFACTSU) (1993–2022) RAF Centre...
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confusion with RAF Cardington in Bedfordshire. The station's first unit, No. 2 Flying Training School (No. 2 FTS) transferred from RAF Digby in Lincolnshire...
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various roles. Between 1992 and 2010, it was based at RAF Kinloss as the Operational Conversion Unit for the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2, until the retirement...
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No. 24 Squadron (also known as No. XXIV Squadron) of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AM OCU). Based at RAF Brize...
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Disbanding in October 1993, No. 55 Squadron were the last RAF unit to operate the Victor. Between 1996 and 2011, No. 55(Reserve) Squadron operated the...
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1946) No. 70 (Bomber) Wing RAF No. 231 Operational Conversion Unit RAF (July 1982 - December 1990, May 1991 - April 1993) No. 1323 (Canberra) Flight RAF (October...
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According to the squadron's entry in Flying Units of the RAF by Alan Lake, No. 617 Squadron was allocated the unit identification code MZ for the period April...
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latterly the home of No. 14 Maintenance Unit and occupied the various sites originally used by RAF Kingstown's Elementary Flying Training School during the...
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