28th Flying Training Wing (U.S. Army Air Forces)

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28th Flying Training Wing
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Locations of airfields controlled by the 28th Flying Training Wing
Active1942–1945
Country United States
Branch United States Army Air Forces
RoleTraining
Part of Eastern Flying Training Command
Engagements World War II
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The 28th Flying Training Wing was a unit of the United States Army Air Forces. It was last assigned to the Eastern Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 30 December 1945 at Craig Field, Alabama.

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There is no lineage between the United States Air Force 28th Bomb Wing, established on 28 July 1947 at Rapid City Army Air Base, South Dakota, and this organization.

History

The wing commanded Eastern Flying Training Command Flight Schools in the Southeastern United States. Graduates of the advanced schools were commissioned as Second Lieutenants, receiving their "wings". Most of the assigned schools provided phase III advanced single-engine flying training for Air Cadets, from which the graduates would attend Replacement Training schools operated by one of the numbered air forces in single-engine fighters. From there they would be deployed overseas to the combat theaters as replacement pilots. [1]

The command also operated several specialized schools at Jackson, Tuskegee, Spence and Clewiston. Jackson Army Air Base was the home of the Royal Netherlands Flight Academy, which trained pilots for their air force. It also had a two-engine school for B-25 Mitchell medium bomber training for Dutch pilots. Riddle Field at Clewiston, Florida was a contract pilot school which taught both primary and basic flight training. Tuskegee Field, Alabama was exclusively for black air cadets, who received their basic and single-engine advanced training by black Army instructors after graduating from the primary school at Moton Field, operated by the Tuskegee Institute. [1]

As training requirements changed during the war, schools were activated and inactivated or transferred to meet those requirements. [1]

Lineage

Activated on 26 December 1942
Disbanded on 30 December 1945 [2]

Assignments

Training aircraft

The advanced trainer operated by the schools was the North American AT-6 Texan. The contract primary school at Clewiston flew Boeing-Stearman PT-17s. The basic schools at Jackson, Tuskegee and Spence Fields flew Vultee BT-13 Valiant single-engine trainers.

Assigned pilot schools

Stations

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References

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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  2. 1 2 3 28th Flying Training Wing, lineage and history document Air Force Historical Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
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