No. 1 Flying Training School RAF

No. 1 Flying Training School
Jet Provost Mk3A Situated at No1 Flying Training School, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. Used for conversion training to jet propulsion from the 1960s through to 1990s
Active	23 Dec 1919 - 1 Feb 1931 1 Apr 1935 - 7 Mar 1942 18 Jun 1947 - 25 Feb 1948 1 Dec 1950 - 20 Apr 1955 1 May 1955 - present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Role	Basic fast-jet pilot training
Part of	No. 22 (Training) Group RAF
Base	RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Motto(s)	Latin: Terra Marique ad Caelum (Translation: "By Land and Sea to the Sky")
Aircraft	Short Tucano

No. 1 Flying Training School (1 FTS) is the oldest military pilot training school in the world.

On 23 December 1919, 1 FTS was officially formed by renaming the Netheravon Flying School, which had been formed on 29 July 1919 at Netheravon in Wiltshire, England, out of the 2nd incarnation of No. 8 Training Squadron, which in its turn had been formed on 15 May 1919 out of No. 8 Training Depot Station, all at Netheravon. During this part of its service life, 1 FTS and its predecessors flew aircraft such as the Airco DH.9A, the Avro 504, the Bristol F.2 Fighter, and the Sopwith Snipe.

1 FTS was disbanded on 1 February 1931. Part of its mission, the training of Fleet Air Arm (FAA) officers, had already been taken over by RAF Leuchars since 15 February 1928.

The second incarnation of 1 FTS occurred at RAF Leuchars on 1 April 1935, tasked with training Royal Navy officers for the Fleet Air Arm. On 26 August 1938, the unit returned to its birthplace at RAF Netheravon, and on 1 September 1939 it was renamed No. 1 Service Flying Training School. It disbanded on 7 March 1942, when Netheravon was required for Army Cooperation Command use. Aircraft flown in this period included the Fairey IIIF, Hawker Hart, Westland Wapiti, Hawker Hind, Hawker Audax, de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth, North American Harvard, Fairey Battle and Miles Master.