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Constructed in 1932, the RAF College design was based on St Pancras Station and the dining room on the long room at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. The station canopy of the branch line terminus joining the main Cranwell station (currently the guard room) can still be seen from behind the kitchens.
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Visits to the Royal Air Force College can be made by members of the public by writing to the following address: College Secretariat, Royal Air Force College Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 8HB. Photographs, design and artwork created by the Visual Media Department, Babcock HCS, RAFC Cranwell
The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training to aircrew cadets and is responsible for all RAF recruiting along with officer and aircrew selection.
Foundation of the RAF College. Realising Trenchard's vision for an RAF College on the lines of Sandhurst and Britannia, RAF Cranwell was officially formed on 1 November 1919 and opened for business on 5 February 1920. The decision to replace the existing corrugated iron huts was made in 1922.
British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a . new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of . its kind in the world. During its first year it continued to be the Naval Wing of the joint Royal Flying Corps (which had been set up in 1912), but was administered by the Admiralty's new Air Department; on 1 August 1915 the RFC
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