No. 54 Group RAF
Appearance
No. 54 (Training) Group RAF | |
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Active | 30 August 1939 – 17 June 1946 1 April 1951 – 10 July 1953 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Air Force |
Type | Royal Air Force group |
Part of | RAF Reserve Command |
No. 54 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force training group that operational between August 1939 and July 1953 during the Second World War and the Cold War.
Structure
[edit]November 1939 – HQ at Reading[1]
- Various Initial Training Wings
May 1941 – Torquay[2]
- Aberdeen University Air Squadron
- Aberystwyth University Air Squadron
- Belfast University Air Squadron
- Bristol University Air Squadron
- Cambridge University Air Squadron
- Cardiff University Air Squadron
- Edinburgh University Air Squadron
- Glasgow University Air Squadron
- Leeds University Air Squadron
- Liverpool University Air Squadron
- London University Air Squadron
- Manchester University Air Squadron
- Newcastle University Air Squadron
- Oxford University Air Squadron
- Reading University Air Squadron
- St Andrews University Air Squadron
- Sheffield University Air Squadron
- Southampton University Air Squadron
- Swansea University Air Squadron
April 1942 – HQ at Sunningdale[3]
- RAF Eastbourne = No. 1 Elementary Air Observers School RAF
- 15 Initial Training Wings
April 1943 – HQ at Sunningdale[4]
- Various Initial Training Wings
- Air Crew Despatch Centre[5]
July 1944 – HQ at Sunningdale[6]
- Various Initial Training Wings
- Various Reception Wings
- Various Initial Training Schools
July 1945 – HQ at Sunningdale[7]
- Various non-flying units
April 1953 – HQ at Benson[8]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Delve 1994, p. 52.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 55.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 59.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 66.
- ^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 43.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 74.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 80.
- ^ Delve 1994, p. 86.
- ^ a b c d e Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 167.
- ^ a b c Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 148.
Bibliography
[edit]- Delve, Ken (1994). The Source Book of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-451-5.
- Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.
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