No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF
No. 1 Flying Training School was the first unit to be formally established as part of the new Australian Air Force on 31 March 1921. It was formed from the remnants of Australia’s original military flying unit, Central Flying School, at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria. By the early 1930s, the school comprised training, fighter, and seaplane components. No. 1 FTS was disbanded in late 1944, when there was no further requirement to train Australian aircrew for service in Europe. The school was re-established in 1946 as No. 1 FTS at RAAF Station Uranquinty, New South Wales, and transferred to Point Cook the following year. It moved to RAAF Base Pearce, Western Australia,
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No. 1 Flying Training School was the first unit to be formally established as part of the new Australian Air Force on 31 March 1921. It was formed from the remnants of Australia’s original military flying unit, Central Flying School, at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria. By the early 1930s, the school comprised training, fighter, and seaplane components. No. 1 FTS was disbanded in late 1944, when there was no further requirement to train Australian aircrew for service in Europe. The school was re-established in 1946 as No. 1 FTS at RAAF Station Uranquinty, New South Wales, and transferred to Point Cook the following year. It moved to RAAF Base Pearce, Western Australia, in 1958, and to East Sale, Queensland, in 1993. It is one of the Air Force’s original units, dating back to the service’s formation in 1921, when it was established at Point Cook. The first Citizen Air Force pilots’ course ran from December 1925 to March 1926, with 26 of 30 students completing the training. Although 24 accidents occurred, there were no fatalities, leading to the graduation ceremony that the students were either rubber-capped or had learned how to crash safely. The permanent cadet course was marred by three fatal accidents. In June 1928 the school’s Avro 504Ks were replaced by deHavilland DH 60 Cirrus Moths; these were augmented by Gipsy Moths in 1930.
By then two sub-units had been raised: Fighter Squadron, operating Bristol Bulldogs; and Supermarine Superplane Squadron operating Supermarine Moths. The unit was disbanded again in 1993, when the RAAF reorganisation of aircrew training led to the disbandment of No.1 F TS. The current school was formed in 2019, flying the Pilatus PC-21 and conducting ab initio flight training. It has been re-formed several times in the ensuing years, initially as No 1 Service Flying training School in 1940, under the wartime Empire Air Training Scheme. In 1969, No. 1 AFTS was. re- formed as No 2 Flying Training. School and No. 1 BFTS was re. formed as no. one FTS. In the early 1980s, it was also responsible for training RAAF’s air traffic controllers. Its pilot trainees included Army, Navy, and foreign students as well as RAAF personnel. In 2009, it became responsible for the training of RAAF air traffic control personnel and aircrews. It now has a permanent cadre of nine cadets, nine reserve, and seven reserve, reserve and reserve airmen. It also has a reserve cadet cadet exchange program with the Royal Air Force. It will be re-forming at East Sale in 2019. It had been disbanded in 1993 after a restructure of air crew training in the early 1950s.
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