The Flying Division, Air Training Command, was a training formation of the United States Air Force. The unit was established in 1926 as the Air Corps Training Center to be the primary pilot training center for the Air Corps. It was reorganized into one of three training commands created by the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps in 1940 to accommodate the large number of air cadets being recruited as a result of the expansion of the corps after the fall of France. During World War II, thousands of cadets attended various flight schools throughout the Central United States being trained as pilots for fighters, bombers and transports. It also trained the navigators, bombardiers and gunners necessary for the bombers to attack enemy targets in the combat areas overseas. After World War II, it became the primary pilot and aircrew training unit of the United States Air Force Air Training Command.
Postwar T-33A Shooting Star jet fighter training
Image: Central Flying Training Command
Post World War I flight training at Kelly Field Texas.
11th School Group Consolidated PT-1 trainers, Brooks Field, Texas, March 1926.
Foster Air Force Base
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Foster Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force facility in Texas, located in Victoria County, approximately six miles (10 km) east-northeast of Victoria.
2006 USGS airphoto
Formation of 12 AT-6 trainers over the Guadalupe River near Foster Field, Summer 1942
North American F-100s of the 450th Fighter-Day Group, about 1956. North American F-100C-5-NA Super Sabre, AF Ser. No. 54-1775 identifiable. This aircraft was lost in combat during the Vietnam War when assigned to the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phu Cat Air Base on 2 August 1968, its pilot was recovered
KB-50D Superfortress, AF Ser. No. 48-0123, of the 622d Air Refueling Squadron (4505th ARW) carrying out first triple-point refueling operation with three North American F-100C Super Sabres (AF Ser. No. 54-1825, 53-1774, and 54-1848) of the 451st Fighter-Day Squadron (322d FDG), 1956