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After moving from RAF Netheravon, the school became the first flying unit at RAF Little Rissington in August 1938 with Hawker Audaxes, Hawker Furies, Hawker Harts and Avro Ansons. It was renamed to No. 6 Service Flying Training School on 3 September 1939 and North American Harvards joined. The School's Advanced Training Squadron used various ...
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No. 6 Flying Training School is a Flying Training School (FTS) within No. 22 (Training) Group of the Royal Air Force that delivers flying training to University Air Squadrons and Air Experience Flights.
Initially formed by renaming 39 Training School at RAF Spitalgate
After moving from RAF Netheravon, becoming the first flying unit at RAF Little Rissington in August 1938 with their Audaxes, Furies, Harts and Ansons as No. 6 Service Flying Training School. Disbanded here by being redesignated No.6 (P)AFU (Pilot-Advanced Flying Unit) on 22 April 1942.
From 30 April 1946 6 FTS was based at RAF Ternhill equipped with North American Harvards, receiving Percival Prentices in late 1948 and from July 1953 Percival Provost T1 piston engine training aircraft replaced both types. However on 24 July 1961 the school moved out to RAF Acklington where it closed again on 30 June 1968.
Reformed 1 May 1970 at RAF Finningley, within No. 23 Group RAF as an Air Navigation School (ANS) from an amalgamation the BAe Dominie T1 s of No. 1 ANS from RAF Stradishall and the Varsities No 2 ANS from RAF Gaydon. Low level navigation training took place on the Jet Provost from August 1970, eventually using the T5B variant which had extra fuel capacity in the form of wingtip tanks due to the extra fuel burn at low level. This part of the school was known as the Low Level and Air Defence Training Squadron (LLADTS). The Vickers Varsity was phased out in 1976 making No 6 FTS an all-jet school.
During the 1960s and 1970s all the RAF's Colleges and Flying Training Schools had their own Jet Provost aerobatics team. One of the less known and publicised display teams was flown by 6 FTS. They flew a team for five seasons between 1962 and 1966 and it was unofficially christened the "Cocks O'the North".
On 14 August 1993, the LLADTS made its final farewell to the Jet Provost in the navigation training role when four aircraft staged a "dying swan" formation over the airfield.
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First formation (1919 – 1931) On 23 December 1919, 1 FTS was officially formed by renaming the Netheravon Flying School, [3] which had been formed on 29 July 1919 [4] at Netheravon in Wiltshire, England, out of the 2nd incarnation of No. 8 Training Squadron, [5] which in its turn had been formed on 15 May 1919 out of No. 8 Training Depot ...
No. 7 Flying Training School (7 FTS) is a former Royal Air Force flying training school that operated between 1935 and 1994. [1] From 1948 to 1954, No 7 Flying Training School was located at RAF Cottesmore, flying Tiger Moths, Harvards, Prentices and Balliols. During 1950 many improvements were made to the hangars and buildings at RAF Valley ...
