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(Redirected from Flying Refresher School RAF) Former Royal Air Force flying training school
No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF
ActiveAs 215 AFS: 1952 - 1954
Previous designations: 1935-1952
Disbanded1954
CountryUnited Kingdom
AllegianceRoyal Air Force
RoleFlying training
Last GarrisonRAF Finningley
Military unit

No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF was a flying school of the Royal Air Force which was disbanded in 1954 at RAF Finningley.

Previous identities

  • No. 11 Flying Training School RAF (1935-39)
  • No. 11 Service Flying Training School RAF (1939-42)
  • No. 11 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF (1942-45) (Disbanded)
  • No. 21 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF (1943-47) (Formed from a nucleus from 11 (P)AFU) - merged with No. 1 Refresher School RAF (1946-47)
  • No. 1 (Pilot) Refresher Flying Unit RAF (1947-49) absorbed No. 2 (Pilot) Refresher Flying Unit RAF on 1 April 1948.
  • Flying Refresher School RAF (1949-51)
  • No. 101 Flying Refresher School RAF (1951-52)
  • No. 215 Advanced Flying School RAF (1952-54)

No. 1 Refresher School RAF formed from Refresher Flight of No. 17 SFTS.

11 FTS

  • No. 17 Operational Training Unit RAF (1940-47)
  • No. 201 Advanced Flying School RAF (1947-54)
  • No. 11 Flying Training School RAF (1954-7/6/55)
  • Into No. 2 Air Navigation School (1947-70)
  • No. 6 Flying Training School RAF (1970-96)

References

Citations

  1. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 1.
  2. ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 137.
  3. ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 34.
  4. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 218.
  5. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 212.
  6. ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 133.
  7. ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 33.
  8. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 201.
  9. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 49.
  10. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 136.

Bibliography

  • Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.
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