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RAF Cranwell Crest
Station Crest
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| Role | Officer and Aircrew Training
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| Location | Near Sleaford, England
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| Date Founded | November 1915 (as RNAS base)
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RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire near the village of Cranwell.
Cranwell is home to the Royal Air Force College, which trains the RAFs new Officers on a 26 week course. It is thus the RAF equivalent of Sandhurst or Britannia Royal Naval College, and considered by some as the spiritual home of the RAF.
Number 3 Flying Training School, training Navigators and Non-commisioned Aircrew, are based here. Cranwell is also home to 2 of the RAF bands.
Since the mid-1990s, Cranwell has been home to Headquarters, Air Cadets.
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