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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 ...
glider units.
Gliding Schools
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1-100
100-200
200-700
Volunteer Gliding Schools
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Other Glider units
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* Home Command Gliding Instructors School became Home Command Gliding Centre became 1 Home Command Gliding Centre became 1 Gliding Centre became Central Gliding School
* 2 Home Command Gliding Centre became 2 Gliding Centre became Central Gliding School
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Glider Exercise Unit RAF
No. 296 Squadron RAF was an transport squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. With sister squadrons 295 and 297 it formed 38 Wing, which later expanded to create No. 38 Group RAF.
History
With the Airborne Forces
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Glider Exercise Squadron RAF
No. 296 Squadron RAF was an transport squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. With sister squadrons 295 and 297 it formed 38 Wing, which later expanded to create No. 38 Group RAF.
History
With the Airborne Forces
No. 29 ...
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No. 296 Squadron RAF
No. 296 Squadron RAF was an transport squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. With sister squadrons 295 and 297 it formed 38 Wing, which later expanded to create No. 38 Group RAF.
History
With the Airborne Forces
No. 29 ...
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Central Gliding School
The Central Gliding School (CGS) is the Royal Air Force's primary institution for the training of gliding instructors for the instruction of Royal Air Force and Air Cadet personnel. It is administered under No. 2 Flying Training School and is ...
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Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF
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No. 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF
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No. 22 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF
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No. 23 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF
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No. 101 (Glider) Operational Training Unit RAF
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No. 102 (Glider) Operational Training Unit RAF
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No. 668 Squadron RAF
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No. 669 Squadron RAF
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No. 670 Squadron RAF
No. 670 Squadron RAF was a glider squadron of the Royal Air Force active during the Second World War.
History
No. 670 Squadron was formed at Fatehjang, Punjab, (then) British India on 14 December 1944 as a glider squadron, with the intention o ...
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No. 671 Squadron RAF
No. 671 Squadron RAF was a glider squadron of the Royal Air Force active during the Second World War.
History
671 Squadron was formed at Bikram, Patna in India as a glider squadron on 1 January 1945 by renumbering No. 669 Squadron RAF, with the ...
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No. 672 Squadron RAF
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No. 673 Squadron RAF
See also
Royal Air Force
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List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
Squadron (aviation), Squadrons are the main form of flying unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF). These include Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) squadrons incorporated into the RAF when it was formed on 1 April 1918, dur ...
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List of Royal Air Force aircraft independent flights
This is a list of Royal Air Force independent Flights. An independent Flight is a military administrative structure which is used to command flying units where the number of aircraft is not large enough to warrant a fully fledged squadron.
RAF C ...
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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 Roya ...
*List of Royal Air Force Glider units
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List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units
Royal Air Force Operational Training Units (OTUs) were training units that prepared aircrew for operations on a particular type or types of aircraft or roles.
OTUs
; No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 OTU): The Unit was formed in ...
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List of Royal Air Force schools
This is a list of schools within the Royal Air Force, including the empire flying training scheme, civilian and service elementary training schemes, and gliding schools.
Schools
The Royal Air Force operated many schools to train aircrew in the m ...
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List of Royal Air Force units & establishments
There have been many Units with various tasks in the Royal Air Force and they are listed here. A unit is an administrative body, which can be larger or smaller than a Flight or Squadron, is given a specific mission, but does not warrant the statu ...
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List of RAF squadron codes
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List of RAF Regiment units
This is a list of units of the Royal Air Force Regiment. The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force and is charged mainly with protecting military airfields, among other duties.
First formed in 1942 to protect the airfi ...
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List of Battle of Britain squadrons
This is a list of the officially accredited Battle of Britain units with their aircraft types, code letters, call signs and casualties.
On 9 November 1960, the Air Ministry published Air Ministry Order N850 which officially defined the qualifi ...
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List of wings of the Royal Air Force
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Royal Air Force roundels
The air forces of the United Kingdom – the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, the Army's Army Air Corps and the Royal Air Force use a roundel, a circular identification mark, painted on aircraft to identify them to other aircraft and ground forces. ...
Army Air Corps
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List of Army Air Corps aircraft units
Fleet Air Arm
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List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons
This is a list of Fleet Air Arm squadrons. Squadrons in bold are currently active.
700 series squadrons
700-series squadrons are generally experimental or training squadrons, which produce trained aircrew for the operational 800-series squ ...
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List of Fleet Air Arm groups
This is a list of all the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm groups that were formed. There were Carrier Air Groups which administered squadrons which operated on carriers and Training Air Groups which administered squadrons that operated from land base ...
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List of aircraft units of the Royal Navy
This is a List of aircraft units of the Royal Navy.
Communications flights
Ferry flights
Ferry pools
Ferry squadrons
Other flights
* RN Night Fighter Flight -> RN Fighter Flight
* Test Flight, Trincomalee
Station flights
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List of aircraft wings of the Royal Navy
This is a list of Royal Navy aircraft wings.
Naval Aircraft Wings
Aircraft Carrier Groups
* 1st Carrier Air Group
* 2nd Carrier Air Group
* 3rd Carrier Air Group
* 6th Carrier Air Group - Never formed
* 7th Carrier Air Group
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Others
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List of Air Training Corps squadrons
The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is a voluntary youth group which is part of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets. The ATC is largely composed of individual units known as squadrons. These squadr ...
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University Air Squadron
University Air Squadrons are training units under the command of No. 6 Flying Training School RAF of the Royal Air Force and their main role is to attract students into careers as RAF officers. Primarily its goal is achieved through offering b ...
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Air Experience Flight
An Air Experience Flight (AEF) is a training unit of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) whose main purpose is to give introductory flying experience to cadets from the Air Training Corps and the Combined Cadet Force. As of 20 ...
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Volunteer Gliding Squadron
Volunteer Gliding Squadrons (VGSs) are Royal Air Force (UK) Flying Training units, operating military Viking T1 conventional gliders to train cadets from the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.
Since 2014, the squadrons operate under No. 2 Flying Trai ...
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United Kingdom military aircraft serial numbers
United Kingdom military aircraft serial numbers are aircraft registration numbers used to identify individual military aircraft in the United Kingdom (UK). All UK military aircraft are allocated and display a unique registration number. A uni ...
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United Kingdom aircraft test serials
United Kingdom aircraft test serials are used to externally identify aircraft flown within the United Kingdom without a full Certificate of Airworthiness. They can be used for testing experimental and prototype aircraft or modifications, pre-deli ...
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British military aircraft designation systems
British military aircraft designations are used to refer to aircraft types and variants operated by the armed forces of the United Kingdom.
Since the end of the First World War, aircraft types in British military service have generally been know ...
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