The Station. RAF Shawbury provides world-class training to around 900 personnel a year, from the UK Armed Forces and international partners. No.1 Flying Training School trains helicopter aircrew for the Armed Forces. The Central Flying School (Helicopter) delivers Qualified Helicopter Instructors.
The Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS) was a military flying school based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire, England. The school, established in 1997, was a tri-service organisation and trained helicopter aircrews for all three British armed forces .
- Basic and advanced helicopter training
- No. 22 Group RAF
No. 1 Flying Training School (No. 1 FTS) (formerly the Defence Helicopter Flying School) provides basic helicopter pilot training for the RAF, Royal Navy and Army Air Corps (AAC), as well as foreign and commonwealth countries, using twenty-nine Airbus Juno HT1.
- 1916, rebuilt 1937
- Group Captain Phillip Wadlow
- No. 22 Group (Training)
- 1917–1918 (Royal Flying Corps), 1918–1920 (Royal Air Force), 1938 – present (Royal Air Force)
The Central Flying School (CFS) is the Royal Air Force's primary institution for the training of military flying instructors. Established in 1912 at the Upavon Aerodrome, it is the longest existing flying training school. The school was based at RAF Little Rissington from 1946 to 1976.
- Instructor training and flying training oversight
- Group Captain Martin Higgins
The UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) takes UK armed forces aircrew from initial training through elementary, basic, and advanced flying training phases, preparing them for their arrival at their designated operational aircraft units.
- United Kingdom
- Flying training design and delivery contract
- 2008 (contract ends in 2033)
- Ministry of Defence
Defence Helicopter Flying School, British Ministry of Defence (UK MoD). Bases and helicopter types history, present and future (DHFS). United Kingdom
The modern aircraft is the training helicopter of choice for the tri-service Defence Helicopter Flying School based out of RAF Shawbury and first was used by students in 2018. This twin-engine helicopter is the perfect platform for instructing all the different flying techniques required of new pilots.
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