Ferry Training Unit RAF

Ferry Training Unit
Active5 August 1952 – 1 December 1958
CountryUnited Kingdom
BranchRoyal Air Force
RoleTraining ferry personnel
Military unit

Ferry Training Unit is a former Royal Air Force unit which operated between 1952 and 1958 to train ferry flight pilots. The unit was formed by a series of replacements, disbandments and mergers dating back to 1939.

History

  • Ferry Flight, Cardington[1]
  • No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool[1]
  • No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool[1]
  • Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron[2]
  • Service Ferry Training Squadron[3]
  • Ferry Training Unit[4]
  • Ferry Training and Despatch Unit[4]
  • Ferry Training Unit[4]

Aircraft types ferried

Ferry Flight, Cardington
  • Avro Anson I

No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool

  • Handley Page Heyford III
  • Hawker Demon
  • Avro Anson I
  • Bristol Blenheim I
  • Westland Lysander II
  • North American Harvard I
  • Lockheed Hudson I

No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool

  • Hawker Hector I
  • Avro Anson I
  • Bristol Beaufort I
  • Hawker Hurricane I
  • Handley Page Hampden I
  • Fairey Battle Trainer
  • Airspeed Oxford II
  • Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V
  • Bristol Blenheim IV
  • Heston Phoenix II
  • de Havilland Leopard Moth

Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron

  • No ferry aircraft known

Service Ferry Training Squadron

Ferry Training Unit

References

  1. ^ a b c Lake 1999, p. 67.
  2. ^ Lake 1999, p. 129.
  3. ^ Lake 1999, p. 184.
  4. ^ a b c Lake 1999, p. 68.

Bibliography

  • Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.


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