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No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down, in Gloucestershire, to train fighter pilots, formed initially from No. 5 OTU, flying Hawker Hurricane single seat fighter aircraft, Supermarine Spitfire single seat fighter aircraft and Bristol Blenheim, a twin-engined light bomber. [1]
The following units were based at RAF Annan: [2] Sub-site, No. 18 Maintenance Unit RAF (1940 – 1941) [7] No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF (April 1942 – January 1944) [8] Night Conversion Unit (March – April 1944) (Part of 55 OTU) [9] No. 4 Tactical Exercise Unit (January – March 1944) [10] No. 3 Tactical Exercise Unit (March – May ...
He continued to serve in the RAF during the postwar period, holding a series of administrative and training posts and also commanding the RAF station at Molesworth for a time. Made an officer in the Order of the British Empire in May 1956, he was elevated to a Commander in the order four years later. He retired from the RAF in 1967 as a group ...
No. 9 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. [2] No. 41 Squadron RAF between 1 August and 11 August 1942 with Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB's. [3] No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF. [2] No. 59 Operational Training Unit RAF. [2] No. 1332 (Transport) Heavy Conversion Unit RAF. [2] No. 1521 (Radio Aids Training) Flight RAF. [2] No. 1674 Heavy ...
List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units. N. No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 2 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. No. 6 Operational Training Unit RAF.
No. 204 Crew Training Unit RAF (1947) became No. 204 Advanced Flying School RAF [70] 2nd Tactical Air Force Air Sea Rescue Unit RAF (1955-61) [71] 2nd Tactical Air Force Development Unit RAF (1953) became No. 1323 (Canberra) Flight RAF [71] 2nd Tactical Air Force Support Unit RAF (1954) [64] Other units.
In March 1940 No. 6 Operational Training Unit (OTU) was formed and arrived at RAF Sutton Bridge for training fighter pilots, commanded by Squadron Leader Philip Campbell Pinkham, with a complement of Hawker Hurricane, Miles Mentor and North American Harvard aircraft, including one Gloster Gladiator, its first pilot pool came from No. 11 Group ...
RAF Lindholme RAF Scampton RAF Upwood RAF Waddington RAF Finningley RAF Scampton. Formed by re-designting No. 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF Disbanded 15 October 1952 to become the Reserve Training Squadron RAF Became the Lincoln Conversion Flight RAF at Upwood 1 February 1955. 231 OCU.