RAF (Loan Personnel)

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CRAF / Station Commander KT

 Loan Personnel   Visiting Examiners
 
Until such time as the unit was able to build up its numbers and to reach a standard of self-sufficiency required of it a number of loan personnel from the Royal Air Force were welcomed into the unit to help achieve this task. The following is a roster of these personnel and the times they served with the unit.



Qualified Fixed-Wing Instructors


Qualified Helicopter Instructors


Maintenance and Groundcrew NCOs
1936 – 1941          Andy Pears 1958  – 1961         W. H. Johnson 1949 – 1951          FS M.D.H. Chappie
1949                      McFarlane 1961 – 1962          T. Carbis 1949 – 1951          Sgt. Long
1949 – 1951          Derek S. V. Rake 1962 – 1965          Neville G. Baker 1949 – 1951          Sgt. Tommy Murkin
1951 – 1953          D. E. Cook 1964 – 1967          W. T. Leslie Rigby 1949 – 1951          Cpl. McTeer
1951 – 1953          George B. ‘Scotty’ Munro 1967 – 1968          T. M. ‘Jeff’ Jeffrey 1949 – 1953          Sgt. Paddy O’Connor
1951 – 1956          E.Yates 1968 – 1971          K. Zmitrowicz 1950                       James Brooke
1952 – 1954          Arthur William Keyte 1971 – 1973          Chris Tinkler 1951 – 1953          ‘Nobby’ Clarke
1953 – 1954          Bernard McConville 1973 – 1976          Bren C. Spikins 1952 – 1956          FS F.S. Busby
1953 – 1956          Geoff C. Cairns 1976 – 1979          Michael G. Lloyd 1965 – 1966         FS “Taff” Lewis
1953 – 1956          B. R. Hall 1979 – 1981          Michael R. D. Butt 1968 – 1970          FS Ted Simpson
1954 – 1956          David C.L.’Nick’ Nichols 1981 – 1984          Paul H. Rosenthall 197?                       Robert Heatlie
1955 – 1956          Frank O. Foster 1984 – 1986          Norman L. Digings 197?                       Ron A. Hutchison
1956 – 1957          L. A. ‘Chubby’ Wilson 1986 – 1989          Ian O. H. Recton 1973                       FS James Thorburn
1956 – 1958          R.H. ‘Robbie’ Robbins 1989 – 1992          Jerry P. English  
1958 – 1960          F. H. Discombe    
1959 – 1960          Ken Etchells    
1960 – 1962          A. Reg Bowden

Qualified Crewman Instructor

  
1962 – 1964          J. G. Nicklin 1975-??                Bob Brown  
1964 – 1967          Fred Penny 1973 –                  Keith Munday  
1967 – 1969          Denis D. Moyes

ATCs

  
1969 – 1972          Peter J. Adair 1950 – 1954          Don Falgate  
1972 – 1974          Robert E. Lee 1950 – 1954          Bert Wright  
1974 – 1975          John R. Brown 1954                      Ian Fraser  
  1954                      Paddy McGinn  
   
     
 

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