List of Royal Air Force & Defence Schools
This is a list of Schools within the Royal Air Force, Empire flying Training Scheme, civilian and service elementary training Schemes, as well as Gliding schools.
Schools
The Royal Air Force operated many schools to train aircrew in the many and various skills required to operate an Air Force.
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- Fleet School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- Franco-Belgium Air Training School
- General Reconnaissance and Air Navigation School (India)
- General Reconnaissance School
- No 1 Grading School
- No 2 Grading School
- Grand Fleet School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- Fleet School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- Ground Defence Gunners School
- No 1 Ground Defense Gunners School
- No 93 Group Screened Pilots School
- India Detachment, Chinese Air Force Cadet School
- No 1 Initial Training School
- No 50 Initial Training School
- No 1 Lancaster Finishing School
- No 3 Lancaster Finishing School
- No 5 Lancaster Finishing School
- No 6 Lancaster Finishing School
- Light Aircraft School
- No 1 Middle East Training School
- No 2 Middle East Training School
- No 3 Middle East Training School
- No 4 Middle East Training School
- No 5 Middle East Training School
- Machine Gun School
- Marine Observers School, Aldeburgh
- Marine Observers School, Leysdown
- No 1 Marine Observers School
- No 2 Marine Observers School
- Navigation School
- Navigation Training School
- No 1 Observers School
- No 2 Observers School
- Observers School of Reconnaissance and Aerial Photography
- Officers Advanced Training School
- No 1 Officers Advanced Training School
- No 2 Officers Advanced Training School
- The Officers Advanced Training School
- No 1 Parachute and Glider Training School
- No 1 Parachute School
- Parachute Training Centre
- No 1 Parachute Training School
- No 3 Parachute Training School
- No 4 Parachute Training School
- Parachute Training School (India)
- Pilots and Observers Aerial Gunnery and Aerial Fighting School
- No 3 Radio Direction Finding School
- No 3 Radio Direction Finding School
- No 1 Radio School
- No 2 Radio School
- No 3 Radio School
- No 4 Radio School
- No 6 Radio School
- No 10 Radio School
- No 11 Radio School
- No 12 Radio School
- No 14 Radio School
- Rhodesian Central Flying School
- Royal Air Force and Army Co-operation School
- Royal Air Force and Navy Co-operation School
- Royal Air Force (Middle East) Central Gunnery School
- Royal Air Force (Middle East) Gunnery School
- Royal Air Force School, India
- Royal Air Force School of Aviation Medicine
- Royal Air Force (Belgian) Training School
- Royal Naval Air Service Gunnery School
- School for Anti-Submarine Inshore Patrol Observers
- School for Marine Operational Pilots
- School for Wireless Operators
- School of Aerial Co-operation with Coastal Artillery
- No 1 School of Aerial Fighting
- No 2 School of Aerial Fighting
- School of Aerial Fighting (Canada)
- School of Aerial Fighting, Heliopolis
- School of Aerial Fighting and Bomb Dropping
- No 1 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- No 2 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- No 3 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- No 4 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery
- No 1 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery
- No 2 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery
- No 3 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery
- No 4 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery
- No 1 (Observers) School of Aerial Gunnery
- School of Aerial Gunnery, Aboukir
- School of Aerial Gunnery, (Canada)
- School of Aerial Gunnery, Hythe
- School of Aerial Gunnery, Loch Doon
- School of Aerial Gunnery, Marske
- School of Aerial Gunnery, New Romney
- School of Aerial Gunnery, Turnberry
- School of Aerial Gunnery and Bombing
- School of Aerial Navigation
- No 1 School of Aerial Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 2 School of Aerial Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 3 School of Aerial Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 4 School of Aerial Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- School of Air Navigation
- No 1 School of Air Navigation
- No 2 School of Air Navigation
- School of Air Pilotage
- School of Air Sea Rescue
- School of Air Support
- School of Air Traffic Control
- School of Air Transport
- School of Army Co-operation
- No 1 School of Army Co-operation
- Royal Air Force School of Army Co-operation
- No 2 School of Army Co-operation
- School of Artillery Co-operation (Canada)
- School of Aviation Medicine
- School of Control and Reporting
- School of Fighter Control
- School of General Reconnaissance
- No 1 School of General Reconnaissance
- No 2 School of General Reconnaissance
- No 3 School of General Reconnaissance
- School of Land/Air Warfare
- School of Naval Co-operation
- School of Naval Co-operation and Aerial Navigation
- No 1 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 2 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 3 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- No 4 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping
- School of Photography
- No 1 School of Photography
- School of Photography, Maps and Reconnaissance
- Seaplane Training Squadron
- No 1 Signals School
- No 2 Signals School
- No 3 Signals School
- No 3 Signals School (India)
- No 4 Signals School
- Specialised Low Attack Instructors School
- Specialised Low Attack Instructors School (India)
- Staff Navigators School (Middle East)
- Strike Command Bombing School
- Temporary Air Observer's School
- Test Piots School
- Torpedo Aeroplane School
- Torpedo Bombing School
- No 1 Torpedo Refresher School
- No 2 Torpedo Refresher School
- Torpedo Training School
- No 44 Training School
- Wireless and Observers School
- Wireless School
- Wireless School, Brooklands
- Wireless School, Egypt
- No 1 (Training) Wireless School
- No 2 Wireless School
- Wireless Telephony School
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Flying Training Schools
To train pilots for the Royal air force there have been many Flying Training Schools, which are listed here.
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- No 11 Flying Instructors School
- No 1 Flying Instructors School (Advanced)
- No 2 Flying Instructors School (Advanced)
- No 3 Flying Instructors School (Advanced)
- No 7 Flying Instructors School (Advanced)
- No 4 Flying Instructors School (Elementary)
- No 5 Flying Instructors School (Elementary)
- No 6 Flying Instructors School (Elementary)
- No 10 Flying Instructors School (Elementary)
- Flying Instructors School (India)
- No 12 Flying Instructors School (Operational)
- No 33 Flying Instructors School, Southern Rhodesia
- No 4 Flying Instructors School (Supplimentary)
- No 5 Flying Instructors School (Supplimentary)
- No 6 Flying Instructors School (Supplimentary)
- Flying Instructors School, The Curragh
- Flying Instructors School, Upavon
- Flying Instructors Training School
- Flying Refresher School
- No 101 Flying Refresher School
- No 102 Flying Refresher School
- No 103 Flying Refresher School
- No 104 Flying Refresher School
- No 1 Flying Training School
- No 2 Flying Training School
- No 3 Flying Training School
- No 4 Flying Training School
- No 5 Flying Training School
- No 6 Flying Training School
- No 7 Flying Training School
- No 8 Flying Training School
- No 9 Flying Training School
- No 10 Flying Training School
- No 11 Flying Training School
- No 12 Flying Training School
- No 13 Flying Training School
- No 14 Flying Training School
- No 15 Flying Training School
- No 16 Flying Training School
- No 17 Flying Training School
- No 19 Flying Training School
- No 20 Flying Training School
- No 21 Flying Training School
- No 22 Flying Training School
- No 23 Flying Training School
- No 30 Flying Training School
- No 31 Flying Training School
- No 32 Flying Training School
- No 33 Flying Training School
- No 34 Flying Training School
- No 207 Flying Training School
- No 211 Flying Training School
- No 4 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 5 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 6 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 8 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 9 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 10 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 14 (Advanced) Flying Training School
- No 2 (Basic) Flying Training School
- No 3 (Basic) Flying Training School
- No 7 (Basic) Flying Training School
- No 1 (Indian) Flying Training School
- No 16 (Polish) Flying Training School
- Instructors School
- Joint Elementary Flying Training School
- Midland Area Flying instructors School
- Midland Area School of Special Flying
- Netheravon Flying School
- Northeastern Area Flying Instructors School
- Northwestern Area Flying Instructors School
- Northern Area Flying Instructors School
- No 1 Refresher Flying Training School
- Refresher Flying Training School
- No 1 Refresher School
- No 1 Reserve Flying School
- No 2 Reserve Flying School
- No 3 Reserve Flying School
- No 4 Reserve Flying School
- No 5 Reserve Flying School
- No 6 Reserve Flying School
- No 7 Reserve Flying School
- No 8 Reserve Flying School
- No 9 Reserve Flying School
- No 10 Reserve Flying School
- No 11 Reserve Flying School
- No 12 Reserve Flying School
- No 13 Reserve Flying School
- No 14 Reserve Flying School
- No 15 Reserve Flying School
- No 16 Reserve Flying School
- No 17 Reserve Flying School
- No 18 Reserve Flying School
- No 19 Reserve Flying School
- No 20 Reserve Flying School
- No 21 Reserve Flying School
- No 22 Reserve Flying School
- No 23 Reserve Flying School
- No 24 Reserve Flying School
- No 25 Reserve Flying School
- Reserve Flying School, Brough
- Reserve Flying School, Coventry
- Reserve Flying School, Hamble
- Reserve Flying School, Filton
- Reserve Flying School, Renfrew
- Reserve Flying School, Stag Lane
- Royal Air Force College Service Flying Training School
- Royal Navy Elementary Flying Training School
- No. 1 Service Flying Training School
- No 2 Service Flying Training School
- No 3 Service Flying Training School
- No 4 Service Flying Training School
- No 5 Service Flying Training School
- No 6 Service Flying Training School
- No 7 Service Flying Training School
- No 8 Service Flying Training School
- No 9 Service Flying Training School
- No 10 Service Flying Training School
- No 11 Service Flying Training School
- No 12 Service Flying Training School
- No 13 Service Flying Training School
- No 14 Service Flying Training School
- No 15 Service Flying Training School
- No 16 Service Flying Training School
- No 17 Service Flying Training School
- No 20 Service Flying Training School
- No 21 Service Flying Training School
- No 22 Service Flying Training School
- No 23 Service Flying Training School
- No 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School
- School of Refresher Flying
- No 1 School of Special Flying
- No 2 School of Special Flying
- School of Special Flying (Canada)
- School of Special Flying, Gosport
- No 1 School of Special Flying
- Southeastern Area Flying Instructors School
- Southwestern Area Flying Instructors School
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Gliding Schools and Volunteer Gliding Schools
As well as Powered aircraft the Royal Air Force has operated a large number of gliders both for military tasks and for Cadet training. Gliding schools are listed here.
Notes and references
- Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9.
- Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
- Lake, Alan. "Flying Units of the RAF".Airlife Publishing. Shrewsbury. 1999. ISBN 1 84037 086 6
See also
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