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RAF Training Command

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Active
  
1936–1940 1968–1977

Branch
  
Royal Air Force

Founded
  
1936

Headquarters
  
Market Drayton, Reading

Country
  
United Kingdom

Type
  
Command

Role
  
Air Training Corps

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Garrison/HQ
  
Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton (1936-1940) Shinfield Park, Reading (1968-1977)

Motto
  
Terra Caeloque Docemus (We teach on Land and in the Air)

Similar
  
RAF Support Command, RAF Logistics Command, RAF Signals Command, RAF Air Support Command, RAF Balloon Command

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Training Command was the RAF's command responsible for flying and ground training from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1968 to 1977. Training Command was formed from Inland Area on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977. From 27 May 1940 to 1 June 1968, Training Command did not exist as its functions were split into Flying Training Command and Technical Training Command.

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On initial formation or from 1936 the Command appears to have directed Nos 20, 21, 23, 24, and No. 26 Group RAF. No. 23 Group was transferred to Training Command on 1 May 1936. It was then transferred again to Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940. It was reabsorbed into Training Command in 1968 and disbanded on 2 May 1975.

Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief

Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief included:

1936 to 1940

  • 1 May 1936 Air Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
  • 1 July 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore
  • 1968 to 1977

  • 1 June 1968 Air Marshal Sir John Davis
  • 1 April 1969 Air Marshal Sir Leslie Mavor
  • 21 December 1972 Air Marshal Sir Neville Stack
  • 31 January 1976 Air Marshal Sir Rex Roe
  • References

    RAF Training Command Wikipedia