"and non-flying units are based at RAF Cranwell. No. 22 Group (Training) RAF No. 2 Group (Air Combat Support) RAF No. 38 Group (Air Combat Service Support) RAF RAF Air Warfare Centre Other RAF Units RAF Cranwell Royal Air Force Cranwell or more simply RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford. Among other functions, it is home to the Royal Air Force College (RAFC), which trains the RAF's new officers and Aircrew. RAF Cranwell is currently commanded by Air Commodore P. J. M. Squires. The history of military"
"in a church at RAF Cranwell. Cranwell is home to the Royal Air Force College (RAFC), which trains the RAFs new officers on a 24-week initial course, after which they are dispersed to their Phase II training for specific branch instruction. It is thus the RAF equivalent of Sandhurst or the Britannia Royal Naval College, and is considered by some to be the spiritual home of the RAF. There are plans for the Recruit Training Squadron at RAF Halton to be relocated to Cranwell under Project Trenchard to commence 2018. The station is home to the Officer and Aircrew Selection"
"Band of the Royal Air Force College The Band of the Royal Air Force College is based at RAF Cranwell and is one of three established bands in the Royal Air Force. It is the music ensemble of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Formed in 1920 and based at RAF Cranwell, the Band of the Royal Air Force College is now one of three established Bands in the RAF. Originally formed to support the Royal Air Force College, the band is now administered by RAF Music Services. In addition to its duties at Cranwell, the Band takes part in"
"Royal Air Force College Cranwell. He served as a fighter pilot flying the Phantom FGR2 and Tornado F3 aircraft and went on to command No. 111 Squadron. In 1993 he went to the Falkland Islands to command RAF Mount Pleasant. He became Director of Operational Capability in 1999, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in 2001, and Assistant Chief of Staff (Policy & Requirements) at SHAPE in 2002. He went on to be Commander of the Joint Warfare Centre in Norway in 2005, and retired in 2007. In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, appointed on 15 April 2011."
"a College Memorial Chapel was established within College Hall. Ten years later it was relocated to the then new College Church, St Michael and All Angels, which is situated nearby to the south-east of College Hall. In 1966 the Royal Air Force Technical College at RAF Henlow, a similar cadet college for engineering officers, was merged with the College at Cranwell. The College functioned 1919–71 as a cadet college (like RMC Sandhurst) graduates receiving permanent RAF commissions after a residential course of two to three years. These trainees now include women, and the Royal Air Force College Cranwell is today"
"located at RAF Cranwell since 1995 when it moved from RAF Scampton. Central Flying School is the longest established military flying school in the world and currently trains all RAF QFI flying instructors. Cranwell is home to the headquarters of No. 3 Flying Training School (No. 3 FTS). The school provides elementary flying training for fixed wing and multi-engine student pilots from the RAF, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps through No. 57 (Reserve) Squadron, No. 703 Naval Air Squadron and No. 674 Squadron Army Air Corps. The UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) programme will see the school"
"from Cranwell, a fair and representative list would be impractical. Therefore, only those who are notable in other ways are listed below: Royal Air Force College Cranwell The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force training and education academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to be commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training to aircrew cadets and is responsible for all RAF recruiting along with officer and aircrew selection. Originally established as a naval aviation training centre during World War I, the College was established as the world's first air"
"Nottingham, north of ng2 and next to the railway. GeoAmey (prisoner transport) are in Whetstone. Lincolnshire and Rutland are very agricultural, with much of the UK's arable crops grown in this area. The RAF have many bases in this area too, with the main RAF College at Cranwell near Sleaford; the East Midlands Universities Air Squadron is at Cranwell, also home of the Eastern Region of the Sea Cadet Corps, and the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre. The RAF's six AWACS aircraft are at RAF Waddington. 16th Regiment Royal Artillery is in Rutland. After Norfolk, Lincolnshire is the second biggest"
"and be used to train new RAF pilots. It was named after Air-Vice Marshal Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, a British military officer and politician who served during the First World War. Since the mid-1990s, Cranwell has been home to Headquarters, Air Cadets, and the Air Cadet Organisation's Adult Training Facility. Furthermore, the station is home to the Air Cadet Leadership Course, run by the Combined Cadet Force although attended by both ATC and CCF cadets, as well as occasionally sea and army cadets. Since 2011 the Eastern Area Sea Cadets Headquarters have been based on site. The following notable flying"
"College Cranwell. He then studied at Royal College of Defence Studies to prepare for the command. In August 2016, he succeeded Chris Luck as commandant. In the 2012 New Year Honours, Squires was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). On 19 August 2016, he was made an Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to The Queen. Peter J. M. Squires Air Commodore Peter James Murray Squires, is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. Since August 2016, he has served as Commandant of RAF College Cranwell. He was formerly a Harrier pilot and also served as commander of No."
"RAF non-operational training (including flying training). Headquarters Air Cadets (HQAC) is based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. There are subordinate headquarters at region and wing levels, staffed by adult officers and civil servants. HQAC controls two Air Cadet National Adventure Training Centres – at Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales and Windermere, Cumbria, England, which provide a range of adventure training courses and accommodation for squadron and wing expeditions. HQAC also controls () ten Volunteer Gliding Squadrons around the UK, through the Air Cadet Central Gliding School at RAF Syerston, and twelve Air Experience Flights. ATC Squadrons are established in most large towns"
"Royal Air Force College Cranwell The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force training and education academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to be commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training to aircrew cadets and is responsible for all RAF recruiting along with officer and aircrew selection. Originally established as a naval aviation training centre during World War I, the College was established as the world's first air academy in 1919. During World War II, the College was closed and its facilities were used as a flying training school. Reopening"
"Hemswell Cliff Hemswell Cliff is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A631 road between Caenby Corner and Gainsborough and on the Lincoln Cliff escarpment. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 683. RAF Hemswell was located on the site from 1937 until it closed in 1967. The airfield site was subsequently redeveloped into a private trading estate and the RAF married quarters into a Residential area which became a newly created civil parish of Hemswell Cliff. The old village of Hemswell remains as a separate"
"RAF College, Cranwell, to train to become pilot officers. There, he excelled at athletics. After graduating in 1939, Pilot Officer Mould was assigned to No. 1 Squadron RAF at Tangmere. On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the squadron was deployed to France as part of the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force. On 30 October, he achieved the RAF's first victory of the war, downing a Dornier Do 17P photo-reconnaissance aircraft west of Toul. He would go on to claim six more aircraft in the skies over France, making him an ace. He was subsequently awarded"
"No. 3 Flying Training School RAF No. 3 Flying Training School is a Royal Air Force military training school, which manages elementary flying training for all three Armed Forces in the UK and also for the training of all non-pilot aircrew for the RAF and is home to the CFS Tutor Squadron. Although the school is nominally based at RAFC Cranwell, only the multi-engine pilots fly from this aerodrome, with the Navy and Army elements based at the nearby RAF Barkston Heath and the remaining trainee pilots based at RAF Wittering. No 3 FTS was first formed at Scopwick (later"
"a modern building and has approximately 300 children on the roll between the ages of 4 - 11. The school is a Foundation school and is non-denominational. There are no secondary schools in the village and children instead travel to Lincoln, Grantham or Sleaford. Just over one mile to the west of the village is Royal Air Force College Cranwell, and RAF Cranwell with its two associated airfields. The northern airfield is the older, being used for light aircraft and airships from 1916 and remains as a grassed field used regularly by gliders and light aircraft. The southern airfield is"
"Cranwell in 1980, he remained to complete basic flying training before moving on to RAF Valley for advanced training. He was selected to become an instructor and after completing Central Flying School training at RAF Leeming, he was posted to RAF Linton-on-Ouse in 1983 as a Qualified Flying Instructor where he flew over 1000 hours on the Jet Provost basic trainer. In 1986 he converted to the Phantom FGR2 and served on 92 Squadron, RAF Wildenrath in Germany, as the Squadron Qualified Flying Instructor. He moved back to 228 Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Leuchars in 1989 before converting to"
"Craswall Craswall (historically also spelt Craswell, Crasswall and Crosswold) is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It lies in the far west of the county, in the foothills of the Black Mountains, close to the border with Wales. Before 1536 Craswall was in the marcher lordship of Ewyas. Until 1866 it was a chapelry in the large parish of Clodock (until 1852 in the diocese of St David's). It then became a separate civil parish. The village is near the source of the River Monnow. Above the village is the Black Hill, the setting for Bruce Chatwin's novel"
"Tranwell Airfield Tranwell Airfield is a former airfield located southwest of Morpeth and north west of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The former airfield is the site of the former Royal Air Force Station Morpeth or simply RAF Morpeth which was an air gunnery school and was home to No. 80 (French) Operational Training Unit RAF. Today the site has reverted to agriculture although several wartime buildings remain and are used for storage. Parts of the hard standings also survive and are used for a car boot sale every Sunday. The airfield initially housed No 4 Air Gunnery"
"RAF Hemswell Royal Air Force Station Hemswell or more simply RAF Hemswell is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Located close to the village of Hemswell in Lincolnshire, England the disestablished airfield is now in full use as a civilian industrial and retail trading estate, forming part of the newly created parish of Hemswell Cliff along with the station's married quarters and RAF built primary school that are now in non-military ownership. The airfield used by RAF Bomber Command for 20 years between 1937 and 1957 and saw most of its operational life during"
"Force College Cranwell and then Staff Officer for Administration at Headquarters No. 3 Group. He was made Commandant at the School of Army Co-operation in 1926 and Air Staff Officer to the General Officer Commanding Shanghai in April 1927 before joining the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 22 Group in November 1927. He went on to be Chief Instructor at the RAF Staff College, Andover in 1929, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 (Indian) Group in 1931 and Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF India in 1932. After that he was Director of Staff Duties at the Air Ministry in"
"Tinwell Tinwell is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population at the 2001 census was 209, increasing to 234 at the 2011 census. The village is just west of the A1 and within walking distance of the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. The village has a well-used village hall, which provides a venue for parties and community events as well as regular special interest classes. Next door to the village hall is a football pitch which as well as providing a sports area is the venue for village parties."
"Air Warfare Centre The Air Warfare Centre (AWC) is a Royal Air Force research and testing organisation based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including at RAF High Wycombe, RAF Brize Norton, MOD Boscombe Down, and RAF Odiham. It was established in October 1993 and serves RAF Air Command by developing and implementing operational-level and tactical-level air doctrine. Additionally, the Air Warfare Centre is home to the tri-service Joint Electronic Warfare Operational Support Centre (JEWOSC) which contributes to the operational capability of the three"
"and today remains in use as RAF Cranwell's main guardroom. The main building of RAF College Cranwell is noted for its distinctive dome, visible from most of the surrounding roads. The motto – ""Alitum Altrix"" – translates roughly to ""Nurture the Winged"", and this motto can be found in gold print above the main doors of CHOM (College Hall Officers Mess). Also on the top of the dome of the Mess is a connection to the RNAS past life of the station, that makes Cranwell unique in RAF history and a record holder as well; RAF Cranwell has the furthest"
"history through living history reenactments, tours, games, vendors and live music. The Cherokee Scout Reservation is south of Yanceyville near Farmer's Lake. Caswell County was briefly referenced in the 1977 television mini series ""Roots"". It was cited as the location of champion cock fighter Tom Moore's (Chuck Connors) plantation. Caswell County, North Carolina Caswell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,719. Its county seat is Yanceyville. Caswell County was formed from a northern portion of Orange County, in 1777. The newly formed county was named for"
"officers from the school. The Contingent Commander, Major S. Garfirth, has been in post since 2000. He is supported by Regimental Sergeant Major Warrant Officer S. Moffatt. Head of the section is Lance Corporal Harry Shaw. They will be travelling far and wide all year round practicing in Chinooks and parachuting out of them onto unsafe grounds. Should be great fun! The RAF section staff includes The RAF section visits RAF Cranwell every year for the regional Ground Training Competition where they compete against 15 other schools in order to gain a place in the Finals. In November 2009, the"
"small number of short induction courses cater for warrant officers selected for commissioning, university cadets, bursars and Volunteer Reserve officers. In addition, OACTU delivers a 2-week Reserve Officer Initial Training course for Full Time Reservists, Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF), Mobile Meteorological Unit and Aviation Officers. Based at RAF Cranwell, the Band of the Royal Air Force College is one of three established Bands in the RAF. Originally formed to support the Royal Air Force College, the band is now administered by RAF Music Services. In addition to its duties at Cranwell, the Band takes part in major events such"
"the introduction of sewers. Although largely undamaged in the First and Second World Wars, Sleaford has close links with the Royal Air Force due to its proximity to several RAF bases, including RAF Cranwell and RAF Waddington. Lincolnshire's topography—flat and open countryside—and its location on the east of the country made it ideal for the development of Britain's airfields, constructed in the First World War. Work began on Cranwell in late 1915; it was designated an RAF base in 1918 and the RAF College opened in 1920 as the world's first air academy. The Cranwell branch railway linking Sleaford station"
"purpose was to train cadets and engineering officers. The college was amalgamated with RAF College Cranwell in 1965. The RAF Officer Cadet Training Unit then moved in, but this also moved to Cranwell in 1980. In 1983, the Land Registry took over part of the site. The missile-corporation MBDA has recently test-fired CAMM missiles from a truck at Henlow. Henlow Camp, a civilian settlement, has grown up around RAF Henlow since the station's establishment. In December 2011, RAF Henlow along with 14 other Ministry of Defence sites in the United Kingdom were designated as being dangerously radioactive. The 15 bases"
"RAF Broadwell RAF Broadwell was a Royal Air Force station located 2 miles north of Broadwell and 3 miles southeast of Burford, Oxfordshire, and within 2 miles of RAF Brize Norton. It opened on 15 November 1943, operating under RAF Transport Command, and closed on 31 March 1947. It had three concrete runways in a triangular configuration. No. 512 Squadron and No. 575 Squadron were based here, flying the Douglas Dakota. In February 1944, No. 512 Squadron was transferred to No. 46 Group at RAF Broadwell. It was a tactical Dakota squadron and started training glider towing and parachute dropping."
"significant amount of their operations. No. 3 Flying Training School RAF No. 3 Flying Training School is a Royal Air Force military training school, which manages elementary flying training for all three Armed Forces in the UK and also for the training of all non-pilot aircrew for the RAF and is home to the CFS Tutor Squadron. Although the school is nominally based at RAFC Cranwell, only the multi-engine pilots fly from this aerodrome, with the Navy and Army elements based at the nearby RAF Barkston Heath and the remaining trainee pilots based at RAF Wittering. No 3 FTS was"
"RAF Harwell Royal Air Force station Harwell or more simply RAF Harwell is a former Royal Air Force station in former Berkshire, England, near the village of Harwell, located south east of Wantage, Oxfordshire and north west of Reading, Berkshire, England. The site is now the Atomic Energy Research Establishment and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The airfield was built by John Laing & Son at the junction of three parishes in 1935. The bulk lay within Chilton parish; about a third was in East Hendred; and the smallest portion was in Harwell. The first Commanding Officer, upon being asked what the"
"No. 2503 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment No. 2503 (County of Lincoln) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment is a Royal Auxiliary Air Force RAF Regiment reserve squadron based at RAF Waddington, in Lincolnshire, fairly close to the city of Lincoln and RAF Cranwell. Gunners are recruited both from ex-regulars in the RAF Regiment and civilians in a 50 miles radius surrounding RAF Waddington. The squadron is an infantry squadron in the dismounted close-combat force protection role. The squadron was formed on 1 July 1979 at RAF Scampton to provide force protection to the Vulcans being maintained there at the time; in 1985, the squadron"