No. 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School RAF

No. 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School
No. 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School
	Ensign of the Royal Air Force
Active	1940-1946
Country	India
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Role	Training
Garrison/HQ	RAF Ambala

No. 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School (No. 1 (I) SFTS) was a training school that was established to train Indian pilots during the Second World War. It became part of the Indian Air Force after the war.

Unit history[edit]

The unit was previously No. 1 (Indian) Flying Training School which had formed at RAF Ambala on 1 November 1940 however on 21 July 1941 it was then renamed to No. 1 (Indian) Service Flying Training School.^[1]

Aircraft operated[edit]

Hawker Hart
Hawker Audax
North American Harvard IIB
Hawker Hurricane IIB
Hurricane IIC
Hurricane IID
Hurricane IV
Supermarine Spitfire Vc
Spitfire VIII
Spitfire XIV
Airspeed Oxford
Avro Anson

Disbandment[edit]

The unit disbanded on 1 April 1946 at RAF Ambala.^[1]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

^ ^a ^b Lake 1999, p. 131.

Bibliography[edit]

Lake, A Flying Units of the RAF. Shrewsbury, Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1999. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.

External links[edit]

[Lake1999p131-1] Lake 1999, p. 131.

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