List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Southern Rhodesia

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This article contains a list of the facilities of the Joint Air Training Scheme which was a major programme for training South African Air Force, Royal Air Force and Allied air crews during World War II.[1]

An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) gave a recruit 50 hours of basic aviation instruction on a simple trainer like the Tiger Moth. Pilots who showed promise went on to training at a Service Flying Training School (SFTS). The Service Flying Training School provided advanced training for pilots, including fighter and multi-engined aircraft. Other trainees went on to different specialties, such as wireless, navigation or bombing and gunnery.[1]

Training schools

These are the training schools that formed the Rhodesia Air Training Group.[2]

Air School Base Major types of aircraft Training Opened Disbanded Motto
No. 25 Belvedere, Salisbury Tiger Moth EFTS 24 May 1940
No. 20 Cranborne, Salisbury Harvard 1, 2, 2a, 3 and Oxford SFTS 1940
No. 27 Induna, Bulawayo Tiger Moth EFTS November 1940
Sauerdale, Bulawayo Tiger Moth EFTS
No. 23 Heany, Bulawayo Oxford SFTS August 1941
No. 21 Kumalo, Bulawayo Oxford SFTS October 1940
No. 26 Guinea Fowl, Gwelo Tiger Moth EFTS August 1940
No. 22 Thornhill, Gwelo Harvard 1, 2, 2a, 3 and Oxford SFTS September 1940
No. 24 Bombing, Gunnery and Navigation Moffat, Gwelo Battle, Oxford and Anson BGTS August 1941 [3] April 1945 [3]
No. 29 Elementary Navigation[3] Moffat, Gwelo Battle, Oxford and Anson BGTS August 1941 [3] April 1945 [3]
No. 28 Mount Hampden Tiger Moth EFTS 1 April 1941 Pana Maziñana ano Bururuka - Here Fledglings Take Wing
No. 31 Cranborne Harvard ARU 1941
No. 32 Heany ARU 1941
No. 33 Norton All types used in Group CFS 1941

Training aircraft

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Glossary

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See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ C. Nepean Bishop, Flight, 20 November 1953, 668-670 The Fledglings of Rhodesia
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Story of Royal Air Force Station, Moffat [Our Rhodesian Heritage] accessed 9 June 2010
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