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.

History

 * Ferry Flight, Cardington
 * No. 2 Ferry Pilots Pool
 * No. 4 Ferry Pilots Pool
 * Headquarters Service Ferry Pools/Squadron
 * Service Ferry Training Squadron
 * Ferry Training Unit
 * Ferry Training and Despatch Unit
 * Ferry Training Unit

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