from 1936 the Command appears to have directed Nos 20, 21, 23, 24, and No. 26 Group RAF. No. 23 Group was transferred to Training Command on 1 May 1936...
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the responsibilities of the former RAF Personnel Management Centre and the training functions of RAF Support Command. It therefore became responsible for...
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Flying Training Command was an organization of the Royal Air Force; it controlled flight training units. The command's headquarters were at RAF Shinfield...
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Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range (redirect from RAF Pembrey Sands)
acquired in 1937. The airfield was allocated to No. 25 Group RAF, of RAF Training Command during its construction, and it officially opened on the 6 May...
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when it absorbed Training Command, making it additionally responsible for all RAF ground and aircrew training. In 1982, Support Command had an inventory...
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Personnel and Training Command to form the single Air Command. It latterly consisted of two formations – No. 1 Group RAF and No. 2 Group RAF. The last Commander-in-Chief...
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(RAF), falling under the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief (Personnel) in Air Command. Its previous title up until 2018 was No. 22 (Training)...
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RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It operated...
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in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
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RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...
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Training commands on 1 April 2007, and has its headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The equivalent in the Royal Navy is Navy Command Headquarters...
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RAF Flying Training Command (HQFTC) from 27 May 1940 until 1 June 1968. From 1940 until 1945, it was also the headquarters of RAF Technical Training Command...
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Cambridgeshire. No. 26 Group RAF was reformed on 12 February 1940 within RAF Training Command, and transferred to Technical Training Command on 27 May 1940. It...
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RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming...
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RAF Ferry Command was the secretive Royal Air Force command formed on 20 July 1941 to ferry urgently needed aircraft from their place of manufacture in...
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Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
2007 by combining RAF Strike Command and RAF Personnel and Training Command, resulting in a single command covering the whole RAF, led by the chief of...
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Training Command RAF Personnel and Training Command RAF Technical Training Command RAF Training Command USA Air Education and Training Command (since 1993)...
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24 (Training) Group within RAF Training Command, and transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in May 1940, becoming No. 24 (Technical Training) Group...
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Royal Air Force College Cranwell (redirect from RAF College Flying Training School)
provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training to aircrew cadets...
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The RAF Army Co-operation Command was a short-lived command of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, comprising the army cooperation units...
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Prince George, Duke of Kent (section RAF career)
initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff...
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Consolidated Liberators and Douglas Dakotas from RAF Transport Command flew from RAF Waterbeach. RAF Fighter Command took over the base on 1 March 1950 and used...
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List of Royal Air Force stations (redirect from RAF Bases)
Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases, support, administrative and training stations...
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RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) used the station and nearby ranges for night-bomber training. The airfield was then transferred to RAF Coastal Command and...
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airfield is decommissioned and the station is now under the command of UK Strategic Command. RAF Wyton is home to the National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence...
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transferred to No 27 Group, RAF Training Command, to become the home of No. 1 Radio School RAF responsible for the training of radio and radar trades....
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operating Airbus H135 helicopters. RAF Benson opened in 1939 and during the Second World War it was tasked with training aircrews on the Fairey Battle light...
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Force Barkston Heath or RAF Barkston Heath (ICAO: EGYE) is a Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground under the command of RAF Cranwell near Grantham, Lincolnshire...
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headquarters is at RAF High Wycombe co-located with Air Command. When fully operationally capable, UK Space Command will "provide command and control of all...
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