A Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) is an aircraft squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) which provides flying training in glider aircraft for Royal Air Force Air Cadets.

2024年8月18日 · 644 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) is part of No 2 Flying Training School, based at Royal Air Force Syerston delivering training to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets Providing gliding training in the form of the Glider Induction Flight (GIF), Gliding Scholarship (GS) and Advanced Glider Training (AGT).

We are all volunteers who provide basic flying training in the Grob Viking Glider, to young people in the Air Training Corps and Combined Cadet Force. We predominantly serve the cadets of Central & East Yorkshire Wing and Durham & Northumberland Wing but also take cadets from all over the country on our annual courses.

On Sunday 1 September 2024, 612 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) flew their first cadet from RAF Little Rissington. Previously flying from Abingdon Airfield until 2014, 612 VGS is now delivering RAF Air Cadet gliding opportunities, ranging from initial gliding induction flights through to Gliding Scholarships and advanced gliding training.

645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron . No 2 Hangar Telephone: 01845 595 345 (Flying days only). Alanbrooke Barracks Mobile: 07776 227 349 (Flying days only) THIRSK Fax: 01845 595 376

Kenley, in South London, acts as a satellite airfield for RAF Syerston and is home to 615 VGS flying the Viking T Mk 1 glider. It is famous for its role as an RAF fighter airfield in the Battle of Britian. RAF Syerston initially opened as a Bomber Command station in 1940 operating Wellington, Manchester and Lancaster bombers.

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N o 645 VGS has its origins with No 26 Elementary Gliding School which was formed at RAF Greatham near Hartlepool in 1943, relocating to RAF Middleton St George near Darlington in 1946. No 26 Gliding School, as it was now known (the elementary part being dropped by 1950), continued to operate at Middleton St George for the next nine years, but ...

632 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) is one of 10 Air Cadet Gliding Squadrons under the command of Headquarters Air Cadets (HQAC) and No 2 Flying Training School of the Royal Air Force’s Air Command.

633 Volunteer Gliding Squadron is based at RAF Cosford, set in the quiet and beautiful countryside of Shropshire, 150 miles (250 km) north-west of London. Located adjacent to the A41, near Junction 3 of the M54, it has good road connections to the M6/M5 motorways; it also has its own railway station with regular services to Wolverhampton, with ...