Ferry Training Unit RAF

Last updated

Ferry Training Unit
Active5 August 1952 – 1 December 1958
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
RoleTraining ferry personnel

Ferry Training Unit is a former Royal Air Force unit which operated between 1952 and 1958 to train ferry flight pilots. The unit was formed by a series of replacements, disbandments and mergers dating back to 1939.

Contents

History

Aircraft types ferried

Ferry Flight, Cardington

No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool

No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool

Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron

Service Ferry Training Squadron

Ferry Training Unit

Related Research Articles

Air Force Base Ysterplaat

Air Force Base Ysterplaat is an airbase of the South African Air Force. It is located in Cape Town suburb Ysterplaat, on the southwestern coast of South Africa. The name Ysterplaat is Afrikaans from the Dutch "Ijzerplaats" meaning "Iron Place" or "Place of Iron" in English.

No. 24 Squadron RAF Flying squadron of the Royal Air Force

No. 24 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AMOCU). Based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, 24 Squadron is responsible for aircrew training on C-130J Hercules, A400M Atlas and C17 Globemaster. The Sqn also delivers engineer training for C130J Hercules, A400M Atlas and C17 Globemaster.

RAF Bircham Newton

Royal Air Force Bircham Newton or more simply RAF Bircham Newton is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south east of Docking, Norfolk and 13.4 miles (21.6 km) north east of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England.

RAF Montrose Military museum in Angus, Scotland, UK

RAF Montrose was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Forfarshire in Scotland. On 26 February 1913, it became the first operational military aerodrome to be established in the United Kingdom.

Tel Nof Airbase

Tel Nof Israeli Air Force, also known as Air Force Base 8, is one of three principal airbases of the Israeli Air Force. It is located near Rehovot, Israel.

RAF Detling

Royal Air Force Detling or more simply RAF Detling is a former Royal Air Force station situated 600 feet above sea level, located near Detling, a village about three miles north-east of Maidstone, Kent.

RAF Khormaksar

Royal Air Force Khormaksar or more simply RAF Khormaksar was a Royal Air Force station in Aden, Yemen. Its motto was "Into the Remote Places". During the 1960s, it was the base for nine squadrons and became the RAF's busiest-ever station as well as the biggest staging post for the RAF between the United Kingdom and Singapore.

No. 236 Operational Conversion Unit was a Royal Air Force Operational Conversion Unit which was active between 1947 and 1992 and formed by re-numbering and merging different units.

RAF Docking

Royal Air Force Docking or more simply RAF Docking is a former Royal Air Force station a few miles from Bircham Newton in Norfolk, England.

RAF Thorney Island

RAF Thorney Island is a former Royal Air Force station located 6.6 miles (10.6 km) west of Chichester, West Sussex, England and 7.1 miles (11.4 km) east of Portsmouth, Hampshire.

No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was a training unit operated by the Royal Air Force Coastal Command. The unit was established during April 1940 by the renaming of a Coastal Command unit and disbanded during October 1943.

728 Naval Air Squadron was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

772 Naval Air Squadron

772 Naval Air Squadron was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

Ferry Squadron is a former Royal Air Force squadron which operated between 1956 and 1958 at RAF Benson, the squadron was formed by the replacements, disbandments and mergers dating back to 1943.

No. 5 Flying Training School RAF Royal Air Force flying training school

No. 5 Flying Training School is a former Royal Air Force flying training school that operated between 1920 and 1974.

No. 16 (Polish) Flying Training School RAF is a former Royal Air Force flying training school that operated between 1940 and 1946.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lake 1999, p. 67.
  2. Lake 1999, p. 129.
  3. Lake 1999, p. 184.
  4. 1 2 3 Lake 1999, p. 68.

Bibliography