No. 237 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
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No. 237 Operational Conversion Unit was a
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...
Operational conversion unit.


Operational history

* First formation: 31 July 1947 - 1 December 1951 * Second formation: 23 October 1956 - 21 January 1958 * Third formation: 1 March 1971 - 1 October 1991


Future identity

Buccaneer Training Flight RAF No 208 (Reserve) Squadron was a reserve unit of the Royal Air Force, most recently based at RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. It operated the Hawker Siddleley Hawk, BAe Hawk aircraft, as a part of No. 4 Flying Training School RAF, No. 4 Flying Train ...
within
No. 208 Squadron RAF No 208 (Reserve) Squadron was a reserve unit of the Royal Air Force, most recently based at RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. It operated the BAe Hawk aircraft, as a part of No. 4 Flying Training School. Due to obsolescence of its Hawk T.1 aircraft ...
at RAF Lossiemouth (1 October 1991 - 1992)


Previous identities

* No. 8 OTU No. 8 Operational Training Unit RAF (18 May 1942 - 31 July 1947) ** PRU Conversion Flight of
No. 3 School of General Reconnaissance RAF The numero sign or numero symbol, №, (also represented as Nº, No, No. or no.), is a Typography, typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal number, ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For exampl ...
(February 1942 - 13 May 1942) ***
No. 3 School of General Reconnaissance RAF The numero sign or numero symbol, №, (also represented as Nº, No, No. or no.), is a Typography, typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal number, ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For exampl ...
(16 December 1940 - 1 May 1946) ****
No. 2 School of General Reconnaissance RAF The numero sign or numero symbol, №, (also represented as Nº, No, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, t ...
(28 May 1940 - 16 December 1940) *****
No. 1 School of General Reconnaissance RAF The numero sign or numero symbol, №, (also represented as Nº, No, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, t ...
(19 June 1940 - 30 September 1940) ***
School of General Reconnaissance RAF A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compul ...
(4 April 1938 - 19 June 1940 & 1 March 1946 - 5 September 1947) ** K Flight of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF (23 January 1942 - 1 August 1942)


See also

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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force Conversion units and operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). History With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling, Avro Lancaster, and Handley Page Halifax, the Roy ...


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* {{RAF Conversion units Military units and formations established in 1947 Conversion units of the Royal Air Force