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By the end of 1943, the American Airlines R4D school expanded to train 50 pilots a month. The Pennsylvania Central Airlines school at Roanoke, Virginia which had been training Army C-47 pilots was taken over by the Navy when the Army cancelled its contract. United Airlines also began training Navy mechanics at the Oakland Airport by the end of ...
Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.
2565th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Contract Pilot School Primary/Advanced), April 1944 Miami Municipal Airport, Oklahoma Operated by: Spartan School [8] British Flight Training School No. 4 [11] 15th Flying Training Detachment (36th FTW) 3052d Army Air Forces Base Unit (Contract Pilot School Primary/Advanced), April 1944 Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona
After World War II began in Europe, the CAA launched the Civilian Pilot Training Program to provide new pilots. [38] On the eve of America's entry into the conflict, the agency began to take over operation of airport control towers, [39] a role that eventually became permanent. [40]
To meet the increased demand for pilots, the Signal Corps Aviation School was shut down during World War I and its functions moved to other facilities. Rockwell Field was closed in 1920 and just used for storage. Student training was in three stages: Ground School was created on 12 May 1917. Students were taught the basics of flight, airplane ...
It used the NAF N3N or Stearman N2S Primary trainers, dubbed "Yellow Perils" from their bright yellow paintscheme (and the inexperience of the student pilots). Basic Flight School was broken into two parts: part one taught instrument flying and night flying and part two taught formation flying and gunnery; an additional part three stage for ...
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Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4. Stanley M. Ulanoff, MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service, 1964, The Moffa Press, Inc. Office of Air Force History, The United States Army Air Forces in World War II, edited by Craven and Cate