RAF Training Command

Training Command was the RAF's command responsible for flying and ground training. Training Command was formed from Inland Area on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977. From 27 May 1940 to 1 June 1968, Training Command did not exist as its functions were split into Flying Training Command and Technical Training Command.

Motto: Terra Caeloque Docemus (We teach on Land and in the Air) [Leslie Gilbert Pine: "A Dictionary of Mottoes", 1983, Routledge, ISBN 0-710-09339-X] .

Commanders

1936 to 1940

*1 May 1936 Air Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
*1 July 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore

1968 to 1977

*1 June 1968 Air Marshal Sir John Davis
*1 April 1969 Air Marshal Sir Leslie Mavor
*21 December 1972 Air Marshal Sir Neville Stack
*31 January 1976 Air Marshal Sir Rex Roe

References

* [http://www.rafweb.org/Cmd_H3.htm Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - RAF Home Commands formed between 1936 - 1938]