Which ATC Squadron are/were you a member of?

[Unknown74]

Sadly due to an old School Playground ( Football) injury which forced me to also quit Cubs/ Scouts as well I unfortunately couldn't join the Air Cadets which I am most disappointed in.

[shakeygail]

351sqd burton on trent.1975 to 79 three flights in chippie Shawbury X2 Lossiemouth x1 on camp 1977 .segburg x1and cadet mk3 both at turn hill and venture 2 at Cosford and lots of shooting.ended up as a nCo then got apprentiship so off to work in a brewery☺

[shakeygail]

Best part of our annual camp to Lossiemouth was the shackleton aews I fell in love and still am

[ac2348]

2348 Maghull squadron. Many great days flying from RAF Woodvale and a great trip in a Herc and tour of RAF Lyneham after a week long Excercise in Nesscliff. I do miss those days, some great memories.

[Spad]

1018 Downham Market, Norfolk and Suffolk Wing, 1975 ish to 1979.
Great days!

[flarkey]

1136 (South Belfast) Sqn ATC, 1990-97, made the best friends I have ever made, had lots of flying in helicopters based at RAF Aldergrove, got to CWO and bowed out doing the Air Cadet Pilot Navigation Training Scheme at Leuchars flying Bulldogs low level all over Scotland.

[PONSH]

341(Preston) SQN, Kimberley Barracks.

[09andrew]

1330 Sqn Warrington 88-93
2 decent annual camps ; Wattisham and Leeming
Watched a night time Phantom QRA at Wattisham, full afterburners awesome!

[grahamdskinner]

2327 Havant squadron, as was my brother, and also all 5 of my sons attended before 2 joined the RAF. Had a great time there and went on some nice summer camps along with AEF flying out of Thorney island in Andovers

[nimrod 68]

2279 wrexham 1953 flew for first time at shawbury in an anson great days joined raf soon after for 12 years great days too

[RGL9999D]

342 (Ealing & Brentford Squadron) 1972-1974.
Attended two summer camps, RAF Wyton and RAF Swanton Morley. I remember Wyton being fairly busy with Victor's, Canberra's amd Comet's with regular touch and go's from the nearby RF-4C's from Alconbury. Did an AEF flight in a Chipmunk (WD373) from here.
We used to have regular trips to White Waltham for trips up in Sedburgh's or Cadet's (I managed flights in XA311, WG499 and VX275). The week after the summer camp at Swanton Morley I stayed on for an extra week and took my Gliding Proficiency Certificate.
During that week one of the instructors told us a tale of a glider launch (winch launch) which was about to occur when the cadet gave the all clear, when within seconds two WGAF Starfighters appeared from the direction of the North Sea at tree top level; well F-104's were difficult to see at the best of times, only the plume of smoke must have given them away.
Happy days!

[NickB]

1157 D/F in Helston, Cornwall from 1985 to 91.

Reasonable amounts of flying from Culdrose & RAF St Mawgan - mainly AEF, but some Cadets got the odd trip in a Nimrod.
Annual camps to RAF Hullavington, Bruggen, Chivenor & Shawbury - only one of those still open now...
Lots of full bore shooting at Millpool (Bodmin Moor), Tregantle and even selected to shoot at Bisley. Loved firing the SLR 7.62mm & L81 competition rifle. Even fired a Lee Enfield .303 when I was 14... my God did that hurt my shoulder!!!

Good times - I was quite a quiet youngster, so it really brought me out of my shell!

[bvs]

I was 115 sqn (peterborough) 1966 - 70
Reached the dizzy heights of Staff Cadet LOL (lanyard)
Chippie Flying was at Newton and Cambridge
Gliding course at 644 GS Spitalgate - did my solos in the summer of 69 (someone should write a song about that )
In 1970 I joined the RAF as an apprentice at Halton (as a rigger - A Fitt A as was then)
Whilst at Halton I joined 613 GS as a u/t instructor and qualified as a P2 (later - G1) - I really enjoyed taking cadets flying !
On my last tour at Abingdon (1980 -83) I was on UEF (university engineering flight) - we looked after all the Chippies and Bulldogs on the unit.All the aircraft were operated from a dispersal/apron on the far side of the airfield and I was often i/c the line for 6 AEF,once again really enjoyed helping out with cadets and blagged loads of chippie flying whenever there were no cadets to fly .
I finally retired from aircraft spannering xmas 2015 !

[PC4]

1331 Stowmarket Sqn

Flying from Cambridge, Chipmunk and the only Beagle Huskey, Gliding was from Swanton Morley.

Until I joined the RAF in 1979.

[scottoz8]

2319 Sqn (Vale of Leven ) '69 to around '72. Flew in the Chipmunk
at Edinburgh

[TonyS]

Rather late joining this topic - only just noticed it. I was in 763 (Kingston High School) sqn. in Hull during the late 50's. Flew in Chipmunks from Church Fenton, Hastings from Dishforth and, at camp at Waterbeach, flew in Anson and a memorable GCA check flight in a Meteor T7. Waterbeach operated Javelins and Hunters at the time. I went to the armoury there for my "useful work" bit and help dig out an Aden cannon barrel from the sand at the end of the range. They'd test-fired it the day before and someone forgot to lock the barrel into the breech block. After the first round, nobody could work out where the barrel had gone!
I wanted to join the RAF after leaving school, but ended up joining Shell as a chemical technician, instead. ATC gave me love of being airborne and, in total, I've logged 190 hours flying, over 65000 miles and 38 aircraft types, as a passenger on 126 flights.

[TonyS]

Rather late joining this topic - only just noticed it. I was in 763 (Kingston High School) sqn. in Hull during the late 50's. Flew in Chipmunks from Church Fenton, Hastings from Dishforth and, at camp at Waterbeach, flew in Anson and a memorable GCA check flight in a Meteor T7. Waterbeach operated Javelins and Hunters at the time. I went to the armoury there for my "useful work" bit and help dig out an Aden cannon barrel from the sand at the end of the range. They'd test-fired it the day before and someone forgot to lock the barrel into the breech block. After the first round, nobody could work out where the barrel had gone!
I wanted to join the RAF after leaving school, but ended up joining Shell as a chemical technician, instead. ATC gave me love of being airborne and, in total, I've logged 190 hours flying, over 65000 miles and 38 aircraft types, as a passenger on 126 flights.

[Garysb]

119 Scunthorpe for me and 643 VGS at Lindholme 75/83 ish

[Rubberneck]

1189 (Portsmouth) Sqn.

[Derek Blakesley]

I was a member of 90(Speke) Squadron, Merseyside wing based at what was the old Speke Airport. Did three summer camps 1959 RAF Upwood, 1960 RAF Middleton St George and 1961 RAF Watton none of which exist today as RAF airfields Middleton St George now a civilian airport. I did gliding at RAF Harwarden. A few years ago I visited the new headquarters of 90 (Speke) and was impressed although it lost a bit of the old atmosphere not being located on an airfield but I was glad to see it's still going strong. Once I have sorted out how to post pictures I still have the photo's from the three camps. I remember while at summer camp at RAF Upwood we went on a visit to the USAF base at Alconbury the facilities compared to Upwood where fantastic it even had it's own baseball pitch. I remember they had RB66 photo reccy aircraft based there at the time far larger than the canberras we had.

Ex Cadet Derek Blakesley