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On 24 July 1961 the school moved out to RAF Acklington where the Hunting Aircraft Jet Provost T.3 was introduced and RAF Ouston was the satellite airfield.The school was renamed to No. 6 (Advanced) Flying School RAF during December 1966, it closed again on 30 June 1968. Operational Jet Provost T.5 of No.6 Flying Training School in 1977
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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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The Royal Air Force Flying College was formed at RAF Manby on 1 June 1949 and operated various aircraft including Percival Prentices, Percival Provosts, Gloster Meteors, Handley Page Hastings, and Hawker Hunters amongst others. [6] The unit was disbanded on 1 July 1962 and became the Royal Air Force College of Air Warfare which operated Vickers ...
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