List of Royal Air Force schools
This is a list of schools within the Royal Air Force, empire flying training scheme, civilian and service elementary training schemes, as well as gliding schools.
Schools[]
The Royal Air Force operated many schools to train aircrew in the many and various skills required to operate an air force.
- Air Gunners School
- (1941-45) [1]
- (1941-45) [1]
- (1942-45) [1]
- (1942-44) [1]
- (1942) [1]
- (1941-44) [1]
- (1941-44) [1]
- (1941-42) [1]
- No. 10 Air Gunners School RAF (1941-46, 1946-47) [1]
- No. 11 Air Gunners School RAF (1943-47) [1]
- (1943-45) [1]
- (1943-45) [2]
- Air Navigation School
- (1947-54, 1957-70) [3]
- (1947-70) [3]
- (1948-51, 1952-54) [3]
- (1952) became No. 5 Air Navigation School RAF [3]
- No. 5 Air Navigation School RAF (1945-47, 1951-52, 1952-53) [3]
- (1952-53) [3]
- (1947) beame [3]
- (1945-48) [3]
- No. 31 Air Navigation School RAF (1940-45) [4]
- No. 32 Air Navigation School RAF (1941-42) [4]
- (1941-44) [4]
- Air Observers School
- No. 1 Air Observers School RAF (1938-39, 1941-42) became [5]
- (1938-39, 1941-42) became [5]
- (1939, 1941-42) became [5]
- No. 4 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941-43) became [5]
- No. 5 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941-44) became [5]
- (1942-43) became [5]
- (1939, 1943-44) became [5]
- No. 8 Air Observers School RAF (1939) became [5]
- (1939, 1941-42) became [5]
- (1939-40, 1941-42) became [5]
- (1941-43) became [6]
- Air Observers Navigation School
- (1939-41) [4]
- (1939-40) [4]
- (1939-40, 1941) became [4]
- (1939-41) [4]
- No. 5 Air Observers Navigation School RAF (1939-40, 1940) became [4]
- (1939-40) became [4]
- (1939-40) [4]
- (1939) [4]
- (1939-40) [4]
- (1939) [4]
- (1939-41) [4]
- Bombing and Gunnery School
- (1939-41) became [7]
- (1941) became [7]
- (1939-40) [7]
- (1939-41) became No. 4 Air Observers School RAF [7]
- No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School RAF (1939-41) became No. 5 Air Observers School RAF [7]
- (1939-41) became [8]
- (1939-41) became [8]
- (1939-41) became [8]
- (1940-41) became [8]
- (1941-44) [8]
- Civil Air Navigation School
- (1938-39) became [9]
- (1938-39) became [9]
- (1938-39) became [9]
- (1938-39) became [9]
- (1939) became No. 5 Air Observers Navigation School RAF [10]
- (1939) became [10]
- (1939) became [10]
- (1939) became [10]
- (1939) became [10]
- (1939) became [10]
- Fighting School
- (1918-19) [11]
- No. 2 Fighting School RAF (1918-19) [11]
- (1918-19) became [11]
- (1918-20) [11]
- (1918-19) [11]
- Lancaster Finishing School
- No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School RAF (1943-44) [12]
- (1943-45) [12]
- (1943-45) [12]
- (1945 became No. 1384 (Heavy Transport) Conversion Unit RAF) [12]
- Middle East Training School
- Radio School
- No. 1 Radio School RAF (1941-43, 1943-97) [14]
- No. 2 Radio School RAF (1940-42, 1943-65) [15]
- No. 3 Radio School RAF (1940-42, 1943-64) [15]
- No. 4 Radio School RAF (1943-51) became [15]
- No. 6 Radio School RAF (1943-45, 1950-52) [15]
- No. 10 Radio School RAF (1943-45) [15]
- No. 11 Radio School RAF (1942-44) [15]
- No. 12 Radio School RAF (1943-46) [15]
- No. 14 Radio School RAF (1944-46) became Empire Radio School RAF [15]
- Signals School
- No. 1 Signals School RAF (1940-43) became No. 1 Radio School RAF [16]
- No. 2 Signals School RAF (1940-43) became No. 2 Radio School RAF [16]
- No. 3 Signals School (India) RAF (1943-44) [16]
- No. 3 Signals School RAF (1940-43) became No. 3 Radio School RAF [16]
- No. 4 Signals School RAF (1941-43) became No. 4 Radio School RAF [16]
- Technical Training schools
- No. 1 School of Technical Training RAF[citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Aerial Fighting and Gunnery schools
- (1918) became [17]
- No. 2 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery RAF (1918) became [17]
- (1918) became [17]
- (1918) became [17]
- Navigation and Bomb Dropping schools
- (1918) became [17]
- (1918) became [17]
- (1918) became [18]
- (1918) became [18]
- (-1919) became [17]
- (-1919) became [17]
- (-1919) [18]
- (-1919) [18]
- Recruit Training schools
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- No. 4 School of Recruit Training RAF[citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Various Schools
- (1917-18) became [17]
- (1943-44) became [19]
- (1943) became [13]
- (1918-19, 1919) [20]
- (1917-19) became [21]
- No. 1 Air Armament School RAF (1937-44) [22]
- (1957-60) became [23]
- (1943-45) [2]
- (1951-57) became [24]
- (1951-53) [25]
- (1941-46) [26]
- (1941) became [26]
- (1933-35) became [19]
- (1938-40) became No. 1 Signals School RAF [27]
- (1951-52) became [28]
- (1939-42) became [29]
- No. 1 Initial Training School RAF (??-1947, 1948-53, 1953-66) became [30]
- (1919) [31]
- (1918) became [20]
- (1944-46) became [20]
- (1947-50) became No. 1 Parachute School RAF [32]
- No. 1 Parachute School RAF (1950-53) became No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF [32]
- No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF (1944-47, 1953-) [33]
- (1917-18) became [17]
- (1940) became No. 31 Air Navigation School RAF [18]
- (1939-41) became No. 41 OTU [18]
- (1940) became [34]
- No. 1 School of Photography RAF (1942-45) became [34]
- (1943-44) [35]
- (1917-18) became [36]
- (1937-38, 1938-40) became [22]
- (1952-53) [24]
- (1951-52) [37]
- (1951-53) [25]
- No. 2 Electrical and Wireless School RAF (1938-40) became No. 2 Signals School RAF [27]
- (1951-52) became [28]
- (1918-19) [31]
- (1918-19) became [20]
- (??-1946) [20]
- (1917-18) became [17]
- (1940-42) became [18]
- (1939-41) became No. 6 OTU [18]
- (1940) [34]
- (1943) [35]
- (1917-19) [38]
- (1943-45) [6]
- (1941-45) [39]
- (1917-18) became [36]
- (1940) became No. 3 Signals School RAF [27]
- (1944-47) passed to Indian Control [33]
- No. 3 Radio Direction Finding School RAF (1942) became No. 11 Radio School RAF [14]
- (1940-46) became [34]
- No. 4 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery RAF (1917-18) became [36]
- (1944-45) [33]
- (1943-44) [40]
- (1917-18) [41]
- (1943-45) [41]
- [citation needed]
- Aerial Erector School RAF[citation needed]
- (1918-19) [42]
- (1917-18) became [42]
- (1932-37) became No. 1 Air Armament School RAF [22]
- (1967-76) [23]
- (1960-67) became [43]
- (1983-97) became [23]
- (1941-42) [1]
- (1941-44) [44]
- (1944-45) became No. 5 Air Navigation School RAF [3]
- (1942) became [4]
- (1935-36) became [3]
- (1950-53) became [4]
- (1936-37) became [5]
- (1919-23, 1931-32, 1933-35) became [45]
- (1952) became No. 238 Operational Conversion Unit RAF [46]
- (1940) became No. 3 Radio School RAF [47]
- [citation needed]
- (1967-67) [37]
- (1942-48) [37]
- (1950-58) became [48]
- (1922-32) became [49]
- (1917-18) became [50]
- (1918-19) [50]
- (1917-18) became [50]
- (1940-??) became [26]
- (1952-68) became [51]
- Central Air Traffic Control School (1963-) [52]
- (1939-54) became and the [53]
- Central Landing School (1940) became Central Landing Establishment [53]
- (1950-63) became Central Air Traffic Control School [53]
- Central Navigation School (1942-44, 1949-50) became [9]
- (1945-46) [9]
- Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF (1945) [54]
- (1945) became [19]
- (1955) [19]
- (1945-46) [19]
- (1939-40) became No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF [19]
- (1940) became [19]
- (1935-36) [19]
- (1919-38) became [27]
- (1944-49) [39]
- (1944-49) became Central Navigation School [39]
- Empire Central Flying School (1954-46) became Empire Flying School [39]
- Empire Radio School (1946-49) became , Signals Division [55]
- Empire Test Pilots' School (1944-) [55]
- (1945-53) became [56]
- (1943-44) [57]
- (1955-1958) [11]
- (1918-20) became RAF Base, Leuchars [29]
- (1940-41) [58]
- (1942-44) [58]
- (1942) became [58]
- (1918-??) became [29]
- (1939) between [29]
- (??-1946) [59]
- (1953-57) Control Passed to the Army Air Corps [12]
- (1915-16) became [60]
- (1918-19) became [31]
- (??-1918) [31]
- (1926-36) became [61]
- (1939-40) [61]
- [citation needed]
- (1918-19) [20]
- (1944) became [20]
- (1940) became [33]
- (1941-42) [33]
- (1941-42) became [62]
- (1944-46) transferred to Belgian Air Force control [63]
- (1943-45) [13]
- (1918-19) became [62]
- (1919) became [63]
- (1943-44) became [18]
- [citation needed]
- (1921-22) [64]
- (1918) became [65]
- (1918-19) [65]
- (1916-17) became [65]
- (1918-19) became [17]
- (1918) [17]
- (1918) became [17]
- (1921-22) became [17]
- (1917-18) became [17]
- (1917-18) became [17]
- (1916-17) became [17]
- (1917-18) [17]
- (1920) became [17]
- (1936-40) became [18]
- (1919) became [18]
- (1943-45) became [18]
- School of Air Support (1944-47) became [18]
- (1946-50) became [18]
- (1944-46) [18]
- School of Army Co-operation (1919-20, 1920-39) became [18]
- (1918) [18]
- (1945-50) became RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine [18]
- (1953-57) became [56]
- (1957-61) [18]
- (1938-40, 1946-47) [34]
- School of Land/Air Warfare (1947-63) became Joint Warfare Establishment [34]
- (1920-28) [34]
- (1919-20, 1923-39) [34]
- (1917-19) became [34]
- School of Photography RAF (1919-41, 1945-72) [34]
- [citation needed]
- (1943-45) became [66]
- Specialised Low Attack Instructors School RAF (1942-44) became Fighter Leaders School RAF [66]
- (1944-45) [67]
- (1968-74) [68]
- (1938) [69]
- (1944) became Empire Test Pilots' School [35]
- (1946-62) became [20]
- (1918) became [35]
- (1942) became [35]
- [citation needed]
- (1919-20) [35]
- (1916-17) became [70]
- (1919) [70]
- (1916) became [38]
- (1918-19) became [38]
- (1918) [38]
- [citation needed]
Flying training schools[]
To train pilots for the Royal Air Force, there have been many flying training schools, which are listed here.
Numbered schools[]
- British Flying Training School
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Central Flying School
- No. 2 Central Flying School RAF (1940-42) became [53]
- Advanced Flying School
- (1947-54) became No. 11 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- (1947, 1951-54) became No. 7 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- No. 203 Advanced Flying School RAF (1947-49, 1949-54) became No. 8 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- No. 204 Advanced Flying School RAF (1947-52) became 'D' Squadron of No. 231 Operational Conversion Unit RAF[41]
- (1950-54) became No. 4 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- (1951-54) became No. 5 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- (1951-54)[41]
- (1951-54) became No. 10 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- (1952-54) became No. 12 Flying Training School RAF[41]
- (1952-54)[41]
- (1952-54) became [42]
- No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF (1952-54)[42]
- Basic Flying Training School
- (Basic) Flying Training School
- 2 (Basic), 3 (Basic)
- (Advanced) Flying Training School
- 4 (Advanced), 5 (Advanced), 6 (Advanced), 8 (Advanced), 9 (Advanced), 10 (Advanced), 14 (Advanced)
- Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
- Elementary Flying Training School
- , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 25 (Southern Rhodesia), 26, 26 (Southern Rhodesia), 27, 27 (Southern Rhodesia), 28, 28 (Southern Rhodesia), 29, 30, 30 (Kenya), 31, 32, 33, 34 (Canada), 35 (Canada), 36 (Canada)
- Flying Instructors School
- (1942) became (1942) became No. 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
- 2 (1940, 1942) became 2 (Advanced) (1942-45)
- (1942-45)
- (1940-42) became (1942) became (1942-43)
- (1941-42) became (1942) became (1942)
- (1941-42) became (1942) became (1942) became No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAF
- (1942) became (1942-46) became Central Flying School
- (1942-46) became Central Flying School
- (1944-47)
- (1944-45) became
- (1942-44) became
- Flying Refresher School
- No. 101 Flying Refresher School RAF (1951-52) became No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF [71]
- (1951) became [71]
- (1951) became [71]
- (1951-52) became [71]
- Flying Training School
- Refresher School
- No. 1 Refresher School RAF (1946-47) became No. 1 (Pilots) Refresher Flying Unit RAF [72]
- (1942) became [72]
- (1942) [72]
- Reserve Flying School
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
- School of Special Flying
- Service Flying Training School
- 1 (Indian), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 (Polish), 17, 20, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Other Schools[]
- (1946-47) [42]
- (1944-45) [53]
- (1944-45) [62]
- Defence Helicopter Flying School (1997-) [74]
- (1940) became No. 30 Elementary Flying Training School RAF [75]
- Empire Flying School (1946-49) became [39]
- (1918-19) [76]
- Flying Instructors School (India) (1944) became [76]
- (1918-19) [76]
- (1919-20) became Central Flying School [76]
- (1943-44) became [71]
- (1949-51) became No. 101 Flying Refresher School RAF [71]
- Joint Elementary Flying Training School (1993-) [77]
- (1918-19) [61]
- (1918) became [61]
- Netheravon Flying School (1919) became No. 1 Flying Training School RAF [61]
- (1918-19) [78]
- (1919-20) [78]
- (1918-19) [78]
- (1942) became [72]
- Reserve Flying School, Brough (1924-35) became No. 4 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF [79]
- Reserve Flying School, Coventry (1923-31) became Reserve Flying School, Hamble [79]
- Reserve Flying School, Filton (1923-35) became No. 2 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF [79]
- Reserve Flying School, Hamble (1931-35) became No. 3 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF [79]
- Reserve Flying School, Renfrew (1924-28) [79]
- Reserve Flying School, Stag Lane (1923-35) became No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF [79]
- Royal Air Force College Service Flying Training School (1939-44) became No. 17 Service Flying Training School RAF [63]
- (1943-46) [59]
- (1973-93) became Joint Elementary Flying Training School [65]
- (1962-77) became [34]
- (1918) [73]
- (1917) became [73]
- (1918-19) [80]
- (1918-19) [80]
Gliding schools[]
As well as powered aircraft, the Royal Air Force has operated a large number of gliders both for military tasks and for Cadet training.
Regular Gliding Schools[]
Volunteer Gliding Schools[]
- Air Cadet Central Gliding School
See also[]
References[]
Citations[]
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