RAF Flying Training Command

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unit_name= Flying Training Command


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start_date= 27 May 1940
country= United Kingdom
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garrison= Shinfield Park, Reading
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motto= Per Laborem ad Summa
Latin: "Through toil to Supremacy" [Leslie Gilbert Pine: "A Dictionary of Mottoes", 1983, Routledge, ISBN 0-710-09339-X]
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Flying Training Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which controlled units responsible for delivering flying training. The command's headquarters were at Shinfield Park, Reading in Berkshire.

Flying Training Command was formed from the elements of Training Command which were responsible for flying training on 27 May 1940. Reserve Command, formed 1 February 1939, was absorbed into Flying Training Command on the same date. [Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation, [http://www.rafweb.org/Cmd_H3A.htm RAF Home Commands formed between 1939 - 1957] , accessed 24 May 2008] The remainder of Training Command became Technical Training Command on the same date. No. 21 Group was transferred to Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940, responsible for the RAF College and the Service Flight Training Schools from the Midlands northwards. Nos 50, 51, and 54 Groups were flying training organisations transferred from Reserve Command to Flying Training Command when it was formed. Flying Training Command was eventually re-absorbed into the newly re-established Training Command on 1 June 1968.

Reference

* [http://www.rafweb.org/Cmd_H3A.htm Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - RAF Home Commands formed between 1939 and 1957]