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Royal Air Force and Army Co-operation School RAF (1918–19) became School of Army Co-operation RAF [65] Royal Air Force and Navy Co-operation School (1919) became Royal Air Force Seaplane Establishment [66] Royal Air Force School of Army Co-operation (1943–44) became School of Air Support RAF [19] Royal Air Force School, India (1921–22) [67]
No.1 Flying Training School trains all military helicopter crews for the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the British Army's Army Air Corps. [11] Airbus provides and maintains the Juno HT1 and Jupiter HT1 helicopters and Babcock and Lockheed Martin have contracts for infrastructure and ground Based Training Equipment.
166 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Colchester from 1939 and later at Douglas, Isle of Man, where it was lent to the Royal Air Force to train officers of the RAF Regiment. 168 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Aldershot; The Royal Armoured Corps Officer Cadet Training Unit was at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1944 to 1945
Formed at Gosport on 30 April 1916, barely a month had passed before the unit and its Morane-Saulnier N's were despatched to France.The squadron's initial pilot officers included Harold Balfour and Peter Portal, later Under-Secretary of State for Air and Chief of the Air Staff respectively, [4] while Robert Smith-Barry, later to revolutionise British pilot training, was a flight commander and ...
In 2016, Ascent Flight Training selected Airbus Helicopters to supply 32 helicopters to train Fleet Air Arm, Army Air Corps and Royal Air Force rotary aircrew in a £500m contract out to 2033. Airbus will provide 29 H135 airframes, to be known as Juno HT1 in service, and 3 H145 airframes, known as Jupiter HT1. Due to the reduced requirement for ...
No. 28 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed on 7 November 1915 at Fort Grange, Gosport. [2] Initially it was a training squadron equipped with a variety of different aircraft, [3] although in June 1916, it was also recorded as having home defence duties, for which it had a few Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12s, although it lost this role in July that year. [4]
The Inter-Service Training and Development Centre (ISTDC) was a department under the British Chiefs of Staff set up prior to World War II for the purpose of developing methods and equipment to use in Combined Operations. Combined Operations badge. The ISTDC came under the command of Combined Operations Headquarters in June 1940.
Flying training establishment and Flying Training Command. Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAF Spitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station, located 2 mi (3.2 km) south east of the centre of Grantham , Lincolnshire , England fronting onto the main A52 road.