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Coordinates: 53.0368°N 0.5105°W. 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.
Coordinates: 53°01′49″N 000°29′00″W. Royal Air Force Cranwell or more simply RAF Cranwell ( ICAO: EGYD) is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford. Among other functions, it is home to the Royal Air Force College (RAFC), which trains the RAF's new officers and aircrew.
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. By 1929, plans had been drawn up, the final version ...
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the . direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 . April 1918, when it was merged with the . British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a . new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of . its kind in the world.
