Ferry Training Unit RAF

Ferry Training Unit is a former Royal Air Force unit which operated between 1952 and 1958 to train ferry flight pilots. The unit was formed by a series of replacements, disbandments and mergers dating back to 1939.

Ferry Training Unit
Active	5 August 1952 – 1 December 1958
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Role	Training ferry personnel

History

• Ferry Flight, Cardington[1]
• No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool[1]
• No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool[1]
• Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron[2]
• Service Ferry Training Squadron[3]
• Ferry Training Unit[4]
• Ferry Training and Despatch Unit[4]
• Ferry Training Unit[4]

Aircraft types ferried

Ferry Flight, Cardington

• Avro Anson I

No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool

• Handley Page Heyford III
• Hawker Demon
• Avro Anson I
• Bristol Blenheim I
• Westland Lysander II
• North American Harvard I
• Lockheed Hudson I

No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool

• Hawker Hector I
• Avro Anson I
• Bristol Beaufort I
• Hawker Hurricane I
• Handley Page Hampden I
• Fairey Battle Trainer
• Airspeed Oxford II
• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V
• Bristol Blenheim IV
• Heston Phoenix II
• de Havilland Leopard Moth

Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron

• No ferry aircraft known

Service Ferry Training Squadron

• Bristol Blenheim
• Hawker Hurricane
• Curtiss Tomahawk
• Martin Maryland

Ferry Training Unit

• Airspeed Oxford I
• Bristol Bombay
• de Havilland Dominie I
• Heston Phoenix II
• Miles Monarch
• Bristol Blenheim I, IV & V
• Hawker Hurricane I & X
• Vickers Wellington IA, IC & XIII
• Bristol Beaufighter I
• Curtiss Tomahawk IIB
• Miles Master II & III
• Martin Maryland I
• Bristol Beaufort I
• de Havilland Mosquito II
• Lockheed Hudson III & IIIA
• Lockheed Ventura I

References

1. Lake 1999, p. 67.
2. Lake 1999, p. 129.
3. Lake 1999, p. 184.
4. Lake 1999, p. 68.

Bibliography

• Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.