No. 29 Group RAF

No. 29 (Flying Training) Group RAF
~~No. 29 (Operations) Group RAF~~
~~No. 29 (Training) Group RAF~~
No. 29 (Flying Training) Group RAF; No. 29 (Operations) Group RAF; No. 29 (Training) Group RAF
	Royal Air Force Ensign
Active	October 1918 until November 1918; 27 November 1918 until 31 March 1922; 1 July 1942 until 7 January 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Royal Air Force group
Role	Military aviation training
Part of	RAF Flying Training Command
Last HQ	Cargen House, Dumfries

No. 29 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force group that was formed as No. 29 (Training) Group RAF during October 1918 within the First World War at RAF Heliopolis controlling various units until November 1918. It was reformed on 27 November 1918 at No. 12 Great Stuart Street, Princes Street, Edinburgh controlling naval units as No. 29 (Operations) Group RAF until 31 March 1922 when it was disbanded into RAF Coastal Area. It was reformed as No. 29 (Flying Training) Group within RAF Flying Training Command on 1 July 1942 at Buntingsdale Hall, Market Drayton controlling Air Gunners Schools and (Observers) Advanced Flying Units based in Northern England. It was disbanded on 7 January 1945.^[1]

Structure

April 1943 – HQ at Dumfries^[2]

July 1944 – HQ at Dumfries^[3]

July 1945 – HQ at Dumfries^[4]

References

Citations

^ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 151.
^ Delve 1994, p. 65.
^ Delve 1994, p. 73.
^ Delve 1994, p. 80.

Bibliography

Delve, Ken (1994). The Source Book of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-451-5.
Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.