No. 29 Group RAF

No. 29 (Flying Training) Group RAF No. 29 (Operations) Group RAF No. 29 (Training) Group RAF
Royal Air Force Ensign
Active	October 1918 until November 1918 27 November 1918 until 31 March 1922 1 July 1942 until 7 January 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Royal Air Force group
Role	Military aviation training
Part of	RAF Flying Training Command
Last HQ	Cargen House, Dumfries

No. 29 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force group that was formed as No. 29 (Training) Group RAF during October 1918 within the First World War at RAF Heliopolis controlling various units until November 1918. It was reformed on 27 November 1918 at No. 12 Great Stuart Street, Princes Street, Edinburgh controlling naval units as No. 29 (Operations) Group RAF until 31 March 1922 when it was disbanded into RAF Coastal Area. It was reformed as No. 29 (Flying Training) Group within RAF Flying Training Command on 1 July 1942 at Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton controlling Air Gunners Schools and (Observers) Advanced Flying Units based in Northern England. It was disbanded on 7 January 1945. ^[1]

Structure

April 1943 – HQ at Dumfries ^[2]

• RAF Barrow = No. 10 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Cark = Staff Pilot Training Unit RAF
• RAF Dalcross = No. 2 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Dumfries = No. 10 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
• RAF Evanton = No. 8 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Jurby = No. 5 Air Observers School RAF
• RAF Millom = No. 2 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
• RAF Morpeth = No. 4 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF West Freugh = No. 4 Air Observers School RAF
• RAF Wigtown = No. 1 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF

July 1944 – HQ at Dumfries ^[3]

• RAF Andreas = No. 11 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Bishops Court = No. 7 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF & No. 12 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Castle Kennedy = No. 3 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Dalcross = No. 2 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Dumfries = No. 10 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
• RAF Evanton = No. 8 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Morpeth = No. 4 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF West Freugh = No. 4 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF
• RAF Wigtown = No. 1 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF

July 1945 – HQ at Dumfries ^[4]

• RAF Andreas = No. 11 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Bishops Court = No. 7 Air Navigation School RAF
• RAF Dalcross = No. 2 Air Gunners School RAF
• RAF Dumfries = No. 10 Air Navigation School RAF
• RAF Jurby = No. 5 Air Navigation School RAF
• RAF Wigtown = No. 1 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF

References

Citations

1. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 151.
2. Delve 1994, p. 65.
3. Delve 1994, p. 73.
4. Delve 1994, p. 80.

Bibliography

• Delve, Ken (1994). The Source Book of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. ISBN   1-85310-451-5.
• Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN   978-0851-3036-59.