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The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is a voluntary youth group which is part of the Air Cadet Organisation of the Royal Air Force. The ATC is largely composed of individual units known as squadrons. These squadrons are organised into several different Wings, which in turn are organised into several different Regions. Together the Regions make up the Corps.
Headquarters Air Cadets (HQAC) is located at Royal Air Force College Cranwell, Lincolnshire and headed by Commandant Air Cadets Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty.
Founder Squadrons and Detached Flights
The first 50 squadrons formed have their squadron numbers followed by an F to show they are "founder" squadrons (e.g. No 42F (King's Lynn) Squadron). Only 30 are still in existence, as the other 20 have disbanded over time.
In towns not large enough to sustain a squadron of 30 cadets, or as a supplement to an existing squadron in a larger town or city, a Detached Flight may be formed. This operates much like any other unit, but is technically a component part of a nearby larger squadron. There are currently approximately 48 Detached Flights, denoted by the letters "DF" after a squadron number.
Central & East Region
Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire Wing
- Wing HQ Cambridge Army Reserve Centre
Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Halton
Norfolk & Suffolk Wing
- Wing HQ Norwich
South & East Midlands Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Wittering
Trent Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Digby
Warwickshire & Birmingham Wing
- Wing HQ Coventry (TA Centre Canley)
London & South East Region (LaSER)
- Region HQ RAF Northolt
Essex Wing
- Wing HQ Carver Barracks (formerly RAF Debden)
Kent Wing
- Wing HQ Maidstone
London Wing
- Wing HQ Kensington
Middlesex Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Northolt
- 85DF (Enfield)(Originally 17F(Enfield Grammar School)
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Surrey Wing
- Wing HQ Wimbledon
Sussex Wing
- Wing HQ Seaford
North Region
- Region HQ RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Central & East Yorkshire Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Cumbria & Lancashire Wing
Durham & Northumberland Wing
- Wing HQ Knightsbridge, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 36 (Hetton-le-Hole)
- 111 (Sunderland)
- 131 (City of Newcastle)
- 224 (Hexham)
- 234 (City of Durham)
- 242 (Cramlington)
- 324 (South Shields)
- 346 (Tynemouth)
- 361 (Gateshead)
- 404 (Morpeth)
- 473 (Hartlepool)
- 607 (Wearmouth)
- 733 (Newcastle Airport)
- 861 (Wideopen)
- 1000 (Blyth)
- 1016 (Berwick)
- 1027 (Jarrow)
- 1110 (Ashington)
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- 1114 (Gosforth)
- 1151 (Wallsend)
- 1156 (Whitley Bay)
- 1248 (Prudhoe)
- 1313 (Whickham)
- 1338 (Seaham)
- 1407 (Newton Aycliffe)
- 1409 (Consett)
- 1507 (Chester-le-Street)
- 1509 (Blaydon)
- 1801 (Alnwick)
- 1932 (Blackhall)
- 2214 (Usworth)
- 2344 (Longbenton)
- 2505 (Bishop Auckland)
- 2510 (West Denton)
- 2522 (Bedlington)
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Greater Manchester Wing
- 55 (Woodford & Bramhall)
- 70 (Croft and Culcheth)
- 80 (Bolton)
- 145 (Altrincham & Hale)
- 162 (Stockport)
- 174 (Manchester)
- 182 (North Trafford) formally (Flixton)
- 182DF (Partington)
- 184 (Manchester South)
- 201 (Macclesfield)
- 202 (Winsford) (closed - 2011)
- 236 (Bollington)
- 247 (Ashton-under-Lyne)
- 284 (Cheadle & Gatley)
- 292 (Eccles)
- 316 (Leigh)
- 317 (Failsworth & Newton Heath)
- 318 (Sale)
- 319 (City of Salford)
- 391 (Wilmslow)
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- 430 (Droylsden)
- 468 (Hyde & Hattersley)
- 1005 (Radcliffe)
- 1036 (Bury)
- 1099 (Worsley)
- 1196 (Bredbury / Romiley / Marple)
- 1263 (Rochdale)
- 1330 (Warrington)
- 1804 (Four Heatons)
- 1832 (North Manchester)
- 1855 (Royton)
- 1940 (Levenshulme)
- 2056 (Knutsford)
- 2137 (Lymm)
- 2200 (Oldham)
- 2200DF (Saddleworth)
- 2301 (Heywood)
- 2448 (Poynton)
- 2468 (St Gregory's School)
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South & West Yorkshire Wing
- 23 (South Elmsall)
- 44F (Bradford)
- 59 (Huddersfield)
- 96 (Dewsbury)
- 103 (Doncaster)
- 127 (Wakefield)
- 148 (Barnsley)
- 168 (City of Leeds)
- 185 (Batley)
- 208 (North Leeds)
- 218 (Rotherham)
- 250 (Halifax)
- 300 (Isle of Axholme)
- 362 (Elm Tree)
- 366 (King Ecgbert)
- 367 (South Sheffield)
- 370 (North Sheffield)
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- 750 (Thorne)
- 860 (Mosborough)
- 868 (Mirfield)
- 1053 (Armthorpe)
- 1325 (Dinnington)
- 1384 (Askern)
- 1466 (Holmfirth)
- 2008 (Bawtry)
- 2357 (Goole)
- 2387 (Pudsey)
- 2388 (Castleford)
- 2446 (Knottingley)
- 2447 (Calder Valley)
- 2458 (Shipley & Baildon)
- 2460 (Pontefract)
- 2490 (Spen Valley)
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South West Region
- Region HQ Devizes
Bristol & Gloucestershire Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Quedgeley
- 37 (Frampton Cotterell)
- 93 (City of Bath)
- 93DF (Colerne)
- 125 (Cheltenham)
- 181 (City of Gloucester)
- 186 (Newent)
- 614 (Lydney)
- 649 (Dursley)
- 785 (Tewkesbury)
- 1245 (Cirencester)
- 1329 (Stroud)
- 1329DF (Tetbury)
- 1446 (Clevedon)
- 1860 (East Bristol)
- 2002 (Kingswood)
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- 2124 (Bristol Airport)
- 2146 (South East Bristol)
- 2152 (North Bristol)
- 2152DF (Downend)
- 2322 (Dowty)
- 2328 (Bishops Cleeve)
- 2342 (Innsworth)
- 2386 (Keynsham)
- 2392 (Thornbury)
- 2419 (Quedgeley)
- 2442 (Westbury-on-Trym)
- 2467 (Nailsea)
- 2494 (Portishead)
- 2509 (Chipping Sodbury)
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Devon & Somerset Wing
- Wing HQ Wyvern Barracks
- 2469 (St Thomas, Exeter)
- 13 (City of Exeter)
- 20 (Bideford)
- 41F (Taunton)
- 41DF (Wellington)
- 65 (Bridgwater)
- 200 (Torquay Grammar School)
- 200DF (Brixham)
- 290DF (Burnham and Highbridge) formally 2302 Sqn & 65 DF
- 299 (Exmouth)
- 326 (Hartland)
- 421 (Totnes)
- 421DF (Dartmouth) (formerly 2380 Dartmouth)
- 722 (Chivenor)
- 914 (Glastonbury / Street)
- 1013 (Minehead)
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- 1031 (Frome)
- 1032 (Yeovil)
- 1032DF (Castle Cary) (Formally 2277 Castle Cary & Wincanton)
- 1064 (Honiton)
- 1079 (Tiverton)
- 1146 (Barnstaple)
- 1182 (Shepton Mallet)
- 1322 (Newton Abbot)
- 1955 (City of Wells)
- 2019 (Sidmouth)
- 2282 (Somer)
- 2381 (Ilminster)
- 2401 (Dawlish School)
- 2401DF (Teignmouth)
- 2469DF (Crediton)
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Dorset & Wiltshire Wing
- Wing HQ MoD Boscombe Down
- 7 Overseas (Jersey)
- 68 (Westbury)
- 130 (Bournemouth)
- 149 (Poole)
- 171 (Christchurch)
- 633 (West Swindon)
- 874 (Sherbourne)
- 878 (Highworth)
- 932 (Gillingham & Shaftesbury) disbanded 2015
- 992 (Malmesbury)
- 1010 (Salisbury)
- 1011 (Amesbury)
- 1069 (Flight Refuelling Wimborne)
- 1244 (Swindon)
- 1304 (Chippenham)
- 1304DF (Rudloe Manor)
- 1606DF (Bridport) disbanded in 2011
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- 2003 (Stratton)
- 2182 (Dorchester)
- 2185 (Wareham)
- 2185DF (Swanage)
- 2189 (Calne)
- 2196 (Trowbridge)
- 2238 (Warminster)
- 2293 (Marlborough)
- 2340 (Blandford Forum)
- 2358 (Ferndown)
- 2385 (Melksham)
- 2391 (Parkstone)
- 2397 (Devizes)
- 2491 (Lyneham)
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wing
- 201 Overseas (Guernsey)
- 413 (Aldershot)
- 424 (Southampton)
- 443 (Basingstoke)
- 457 (Farnborough)
- 1024 (Isle of Wight)
- 1024DF (Sandown)
- 1098 (Gosport)
- 1105 (City of Winchester)
- 1189 (Portsmouth)
- 1213 (Andover)
- 1216 (Eastleigh)
- 1308 (New Forest)
- 1350 (Fareham & District)
- 1350DF (Portchester)
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- 1391 (Romsey)
- 1827 (Odiham)
- 1927 (Petersfield)
- 613 (Alton)
- 2260 (Waterlooville)
- 2327 (Havant)
- 2407 (Yateley & Eversley)
- 2412 (Bordon)
- 2428 (Hedge End)
- 2495 (Hythe)
- 2498 (Totton)
- 2515 (Ringwood & Fordingbridge)
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Plymouth & Cornwall Wing
- Wing HQ RAF St Mawgan
- 3 (Helston)
- 77 (Redruth)
- 147 (Camborne & District)
- 169 (St Blazey)
- 197 (Devonport)
- 335 (Saltash)
- 339 (South Dartmoor)
- 730 (City of Truro)
- 781 (Newquay)
- 1157 (Falmouth & District)
- 1225 (St Austell & District)
- 1387 (Liskeard)
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- 1876 (Kingsbridge)
- 1900 (West Cornwall)
- 2171 (5th Plymouth)
- 2174 (North Plymouth)
- 2309 (University of Plymouth)
- 2312 (Tavistock)
- 2339 (Plymstock / Mountbatten)
- 2377 (Plympton)
- 2443 (Okehampton)
- 2533 (Bodmin)
- 2533DF (Wadebridge)
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Thames Valley Wing
- Wing HQ Edward Brooks Barracks (EBB)
- 136 (Chipping Norton)
- 150 (City of Oxford)
- 153 (Slough)
- 155 (Maidenhead)
- 211 (Newbury)
- 381 (Reading)
- 447 (Henley)
- 459 (Windsor)
- 594 (Thame)
- 966 (Wallingford)
- 1116 (Woodley)
- 1315 (Kidlington)
- 1460 (Banbury) (formerly 25F)
- 1861 (Wantage)
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- 1996 (Earley)
- 2120 (Witney)
- 2121 (Abingdon)
- 2210 (Cowley)
- 2211 (Bracknell)
- 2267 (Brize Norton)
- 2402 (Burghfield)
- 2403 (Aldermaston)
- 2410 (Didcot)
- 2424 (Langley)
- 2477 (Britwell)
- 2499 (Wokingham)
- 2507 (Bicester)
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Wales & West Region
Staffordshire Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Cosford
- 60 (Leek)
- 95 (Crewe)
- 100 (Nantwich)
- 196 (Walsall)
- 230 (Congleton)
- 235 (City of Stoke-on-Trent)
- 238 (Hartshill)
- 239 (Longton)
- 240 (Darlaston)
- 351 (Burton-on-Trent)
- 395 (Stafford)
- 425 (Aldridge)
- 435 (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
- 481 (West Bromwich)
- 888 (Oldbury)
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- 1046 (Fordhouses)
- 1047 (City of Wolverhampton)
- 1122 (Marmion)
- 1200 (Polesworth)
- 1206 (Mercian)
- 1290 (Wednesfield)
- 1444 (Brownhills)
- 1871 (Rugeley)
- 1873 (Sandbach)
- 2078 (Boscobel)
- 2132 (Sedgley)
- 2151 (Biddulph)
- 2352 (Stone)
- 2415 (Penkridge)
- 2493 (Alsager)
- 2517 (Buxton)
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Merseyside Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Woodvale
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- 1123 (Hooton Park)
- 1128 (Crosby)
- 1175 (Prenton)
- 1438 (Prescot)
- 1439 (Skelmersdale)
- 1908 (Bootle)
- 1913 (Knotty Ash)
- 1966 (Wavertree)
- 1982 (Huyton)
- 2184 (Upton)
- 2275 (Walton)
- 2348 (Maghull)
- 2359 (Woolton)
- 2369 (Kirkby)
- 2375 (Neston)
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West Mercian Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Cosford
- 1 Overseas (Akrotiri)
- 24 (Market Drayton)
- 28 (Shawbury) (formerly 1119DF)
- 63 (Bridgnorth)
- 79 (Whitchurch)
- 83 (St Georges)
- 124 (Hereford City)
- 151 (Leominster)
- 156 (Kidderminster)
- 187 (City of Worcester)
- 216 (Redditch)
- 223 (Halesowen)
- 233 (Pershore)
- 265 (Chetwynd) (formally 83DF)
- 333 (Ludlow)
- 347 (Dudley)
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- 451 (Stourbridge)
- 617 (Heber)
- 1002 (Ross-on-Wye)
- 1017 (Malvern)
- 1119 (Shrewsbury)
- 1130 (Wrekin)
- 1165 (Oswestry)
- 1246 (Ewyas Harold)
- 2156 (Brierley Hill)
- 2379 (Dawley) (formerly Telford South)
- 2488 (Kingswinford)
- 2497 (Cosford)
- 2516 (Droitwich)
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Number 1 Welsh Wing
- Wing HQ Maindy Barracks, Cardiff
- 30F (City of Llandaff) formally Cardiff
- 210 (Newport 1st Mon')
- 212 (Risca)
- 254 (Aberdare)
- 275 (Nantyglo & Blaina)
- 277 (Blackwood)
- 372 (Barry)
- 415 (Merthyr Tydfil)
- 1004 (Pontypridd)
- 1148 (Penarth)
- 1158 (Ebbw Vale)
- 1184 (Mountain Ash)
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- 1223 (Caerphilly)
- 1344 (Cardiff) formally Maindy
- 1367 (Caerleon)
- 2012 (Caldicot)
- 2077 (Pontyclun)
- 2167 (Tredegar)
- 2213 (Rumney)
- 2300 (St Athan)
- 2302 (City of Llandaff) status unknown
- 2308 (Cwmbran)
- 2353 (Ystrad Mynach)
- 2423 (Treorchy)
- 2478 (Abergavenny)
- 2478DF (Usk)
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Number 2 Welsh Wing
- Wing HQ Queensferry TA Centre
- 271 (Colwyn Bay)
- 418 (Aberconwy)
- 579 (Llandrindod Wells)
- 579DF (Knighton)
- 856 (Chirk)
- 1251 (Berwyn)
- 1286 (Denbigh) (closed - 2010)
- 1310 (Eryri)
- 1340 (Rhyl)
- 1378 (Mold)
- 1465 (Gwynedd)
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- 1557 (Friars School)
- 1918 (Ruthin) WEB- www.aircadets.co
- 2046 (North Meirionydd) (closed - 2005)
- 2193 (Prestatyn)
- 2247 (Hawarden)
- 2279 (Wrexham)
- 2378 (Cybi)
- 2416 (Newtown)
- 2445 (Ardudwy)
- 2474 (Cefni)
- 2480 (Holywell)
- 2518 (Flint)
- 2364 (Welshpool)
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Number 3 Welsh Wing
- Wing HQ The Grange, Swansea
- 215 (City of Swansea)
- 293 (Cowbridge)
- 334 (Neath)
- 334DF (Brynamman) (formerly 1455, 2475DF and 1358DF)
- 360 (Llwchwr)
- 499 (Port Talbot)
- 561 (Ardwyn, Aberystwyth & District)
- 621 (Carmarthen)
- 631 (Maesteg)
- 948 (Haverfordwest and City of St Davids)
- 1054 (Llanelli)
- 1092 (Bridgend)
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- 1284 (Tenby)
- 1358 (Pontardawe)
- 1429 (Cardigan & Aberporth)
- 1574 (Pembroke)
- 1998 (West Cross)
- 2117 (Kenfig Hill)
- 2227 (Mid Gwendraeth)
- 2318 (Aberkenfig)
- 2347 (Porthcawl)
- 2420 (Whitland & District)
- 2426 (Pencoed & District)
- 2475 (Ammanford)
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Scotland & Northern Ireland Region
- Region HQ RAF Leuchars
Highland Wing
- Wing HQ RAF Lossiemouth, Moray
- 161DF (Ullapool)
- 379 (County of Ross)
- 423 (Elgin)
- 423DF (Speyside)
- 446 (Forres)
- 1068 (Nairn)
- 52 (Aviemore)
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- 1285 (Caithness)
- 1730 (Lochaber)
- 1731 (Isle of Lewis)
- 1769 (Thurso & District)
- 2405 (Dingwall)
- 832 (Wester Ross)
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North East Scotland Wing
- Wing HQ Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen
- 102 (Aberdeen Airport)
- 107 (Aberdeen)
- 865 (Portlethen)
- 875 (Westhill)
- 877 (Inverurie)
- 1295 (Peterhead)
- 1296 (Turriff)
- 1297 (Stonehaven)
- 1298 (Huntly)
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- 1383 (Fraserburgh)
- 1990 (Ellon)
- 2231 (Forfar)
- 2288 (Montrose)
- 2365 (Brechin)
- 2367 (Banchory)
- 2422 (Arbroath)
- 2449 (Carnoustie)
- 2489 (Bridge of Don)
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South East Scotland Wing
- Wing HQ Leuchars Station
- 38F (Perth)
- 132 (North Berwick)
- 142 (Trinity)
- 287 (4th Edinburgh)
- 297 (Musselburgh)
- 383 (Alloa)
- 439 (Linlithgow)
- 775 (Burntisland)
- 859 (Dalgety Bay)
- 869 (Penicuik)
- 870 (Dreghorn)
- 870DF (Gilmerton)
- 1007 (Duns)
- 1019 (City of Stirling)
- 1143 (8th Edinburgh) aka 1143 (Portobello) Sqn
- 1145 (Dunfermline)
- 1145DF (Kinross)
- 1192 (Kirkcaldy)
- 1232 (City of Dundee)
- 1370 (Leven)
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- 1716DF (Kelso)
- 1739 (2nd Midlothian)
- 1743 (Crieff)
- 1756 (Broxburn)
- 2163 (Auchtermuchty)
- 571 (Cupar)
- 2180 (Galashiels)
- 2284 (Dunblane)
- 2311 (Glenrothes)
- 2345 (Leuchars)
- 2435 (St Andrews)
- 2450 (Dudhope)
- 2463 (Currie & Balerno)
- 2466 (Loanhead)
- 2519 (Strathmore)
- 2535 (Livingston)
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West Scotland Wing
- 32F (1st Glasgow)
- 49F (Greenock)
- 62 (2nd Glasgow)
- 122 (5th Glasgow)
- 137 (Ayr & Prestwick)
- 327 (Kilmarnock)
- 396 (Paisley)
- 449 (Lanark)
- 470 (Falkirk)
- 498 (Wishaw)
- 867 (Denny)
- 912 (Helensburgh) [Disbanded]
- 1001 (Monklands)
- 1089 (7th Glasgow)
- 1138 (Ardrossan)
- 1153 (2nd Dumfriesshire)
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- 1195 (Irvine)
- 1271 (Bathgate)
- 1333 (Grangemouth Spitfire) (On 9 May 2013 Spitfire was added)
- 1371 (Girvan)
- 1701 (Johnstone)
- 1740 (Clydebank)
- 1777 (Dumbarton Blackburn)
- 2166 (Hamilton)
- 2175 (Rolls Royce)
- 2296 (Dunoon)
- 2319 (Vale of Leven)
- 2329 (Castle Douglas)
- 2414 (East Kilbride)
- 2452 (Shawlands Academy)
- 2496 (Cumbernauld)
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Northern Ireland Wing
- Wing HQ Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove
- 72 (Omagh)
- 806 (Larne)
- 814 (Portadown College)
- 817 (Lisburn)
- 825 (Bangor)
- 833 (Antrim)
- 833DF (Crumlin)
- 1134 (West Belfast)
- 1136 (South Belfast)
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- 1137 (East Belfast)
- 1919 (Newtownabbey)
- 2004 (Ballynahinch)
- 2062 (Carrickfergus)
- 2178 (Holywood)
- 2241 (Regent House School)
- 2349 (Ballymena)
- 2350 (Coleraine)
- 2390 (Belfast Royal Academy)
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