No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit was a
Royal Air Force Operational conversion unit. It was formed in
No. 12 Group at
RAF Leeming from Nos. 13 and 54 OTUs in 1947. The tasking of the OCU was the training of
night fighter crews and its aircraft were the
de Havilland Mosquito
The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, shoulder-winged, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its frame was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", or ...
,
Gloster Meteor and
Gloster Javelin over the years. The OCU lasted until 1961 at Leeming when it was disbanded.
The unit's next incarnation saw it again training night fighter crews, this time at
RAF Leuchars
Royal Air Force Leuchars or RAF Leuchars was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the station was home to fighter aircraft which policed northern UK airspac ...
. The aircraft was again the Javelin and the training particularly emphasised preparing crews for overseas service. The unit was taken with this role for 18 months in 1965 and 1966 before disbanding again.
Its final incarnation was as a training unit for the
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II at
RAF Coningsby. The unit was activated there in 1968 and eventually found its way to Leuchars again where it fell victim to post-Cold War cutbacks and was permanently disbanded in January 1991.
See also
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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force
References
External links
RAF Web
{{RAF Conversion units
Military units and formations established in 1947
Conversion units of the Royal Air Force