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The RAF was founded on 1 April 1918, towards the end of the First World War by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. After the war, the RAF was greatly reduced in size and during the inter-war years was used for policing operations in the British Empire.
The RAF was put in charge of British military activity in Iraq, and carried out minor activities in other parts of the British Empire, including establishing bases to protect Singapore and Malaya. [22] The RAF's naval aviation branch, the Fleet Air Arm, was founded in 1924 but handed over to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939. [23]
1 October – RAF military control of Mesopotamia begins. 1922 17 February - RAF Ireland is formed by raising No. 11 (Irish) Wing to command status. 1 October – RAF Iraq Command is formed. 1923 February - RAF Ireland is disbanded. April - The RAF's first air trooping operation is conducted during the Kurdish uprising. 1924
At the end of the war there were 5,182 pilots in service (constituting 2% of total RAF personnel). In comparison, the casualties from the RFC/RNAS/RAF for 1914–18 totalled 9,378 killed or missing, with 7,245 wounded. Some 900,000 flying hours on operations were logged, and 6,942 tons of bombs dropped.
The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps.Founded by Royal Warrant in 1942, the Corps carries out basic security tasks relating to the [protection of] delivery of air power.
By 1912 it had come under civilian control and was the Royal Aircraft Factory (RAF) In 1918 it was renamed Royal Aircraft Establishment to prevent confusion with the newly created Royal Air Force. The first site was at Farnborough Airfield ("RAE Farnborough") in Hampshire to which was added a second site RAE Bedford ( Bedfordshire ) in 1946.
Reformed in 2018 to leads the RAF's response to new and evolving threats in the air, cyber and space domains, [4] the group now runs day-to-day RAF operations. No. 22 Group RAF [1] 1918–1919 1926–1940 1943–1972 2006–present: Formed on 1 April 1918 as No. 22 (Operations) Group, in Scotland, and disbanded on 30 May 1919.
On 1 February 1949, the name of the First World War organisation was revived when the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, which had been founded in 1939, was re-established on a regular footing as the Women's Royal Air Force. The WRAF and the RAF grew closer over the following decades, with increasing numbers of trades opened to women, and the two ...