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History. 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 ...
In June 1943 55 OTU was transferred to No. 9 Group; and on 26 January 1944 was redesignated No. 4 Tactical Exercise Unit (TEU), then No. 3 TEU on 28 March 1944. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] No. 3 TEU moved to RAF Aston Down in July 1944, [ 6 ] and Annan then served as a sub-site of No. 14 Maintenance Unit from August 1944 until August 1952.
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 ...
Royal Air Force Sutton Bridge or more simply RAF Sutton Bridge is a former Royal Air Force station found next to the village of Sutton Bridge in the south-east of Lincolnshire. The airfield was to the south of the current A17 , and east of the River Nene , next to Walpole in Norfolk .
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.
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.
Formerly Op Decisive Edge. [ 15 ] Part of the NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ 15 ] UK military support to evacuation operation from Beirut. [ 18 ] Airlift to villagers. [ 19 ] Part of the Dodecanese campaign, World War II.
Promoted to flight lieutenant on 23 October 1941, [9] Storrar returned to duty the following month as an instructor at No. 55 Operational Training Unit (OTU) at Annan, where he was in charged of the gunnery squadron. In January 1943 he returned to operations with a promotion to acting squadron leader and a posting as commander of No. 65 Squadron.