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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]
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.
UK military contribution to humanitarian operations following earthquake. [23] [24] Microbe: 13 September 1943 22 November 1943 Rhodes Part of the Dodecanese campaign, World War II. [11] Newcombe: 13 January 2013 14 November 2022 West Africa Operation Newcombe was the code name for two separate and concurrent RAF non-combat military operations ...
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.
The station was then home to No. 3 Flying Training School, equipped with the BAC Jet Provost aircraft. [20] There were also several other units using the airfield during the same period, these were: 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF 1948–1961 [21] No. 3 Flying Training School RAF 1961–1984 [22] Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron 1974 ...
The Coastal Command Landplane Pilots School RAF formed at RAF Silloth on 1 November 1939. The school was equipped with Avro Anson I, a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft, Lockheed Hudson I, a US light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft, Bristol Beaufort I, a British twin-engined torpedo bomber, and Vickers Wellington I, a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber aircraft.
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.