The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is a voluntary youth group which is part of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets. The ATC is largely composed of individual units known as squadrons. These squadrons are organised into several different wings, which in turn are organised into six different regions. Together the regions make up the corps.
Headquarters air cadets (HQAC) is located at Royal Air Force College Cranwell, Lincolnshire and headed by Commandant Air Cadets Air Commodore Tony Keeling OBE.
The first 50 squadrons formed have their squadron numbers followed by an F to show they are "founder" squadrons (e.g. No 2F(Watford) Squadron). Only 30 are still in existence, as the other 20 have disbanded over time. Founder squadrons that have reformed after being disbanded do not retain the F status, such as XIX (19) Crawley .
In towns not large enough to sustain a squadron of 30 cadets, or as a supplement to an existing squadron in a larger town or city, a detached flight may be formed. This operates much like any other unit, but is technically a component part of a nearby larger squadron. There are currently approximately 48 detached flights, denoted by the letters "DF" after a squadron number.
- Region HQ RAF Wyton
Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire wing
- Wing HQ RAF Wyton
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Norfolk & Suffolk wing
- Wing HQ Norwich
Essex wing
- Wing HQ RFCA Chelmsford
- Region HQ RAF Northolt
Kent wing
- Wing HQ Maidstone
London wing
- Wing HQ (shared London, Middlesex, Surrey WHQ)
Surrey wing
- Wing HQ (merged WHQ with London & Middlesex)
- Region HQ RAF Leeming
Cumbria & Lancashire wing
- Formerly Cumbria and North Lancashire wing, merged with East Lancashire wing in 2011
- Wing HQ Inskip
Durham & Northumberland wing
- Wing HQ Knightsbridge, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
Greater Manchester wing
- Wing HQ University Barracks Manchester
South & West Yorkshire wing
- Wing HQ Castleford
- Region HQ Devizes
Hampshire & Isle of Wight wing
- Wing HQ Newburgh House, Winchester
- 413 (Aldershot)
- 424 (City of Southampton)
- 443 (Basingstoke)
- 457 (Farnborough)
- 613 (Alton)
- 1024 (Isle of Wight)
- 1098 (Gosport)
- 1105 (City of Winchester)
- 1189 (Portsmouth)
- 1213 (Andover)
- 1216 (Eastleigh)
- 1308 (New Forest) (Stood Down 2021)
- 1350 (Fareham & District)
- 1391 (Romsey) (formerly 1105DF)
- 1827 (Odiham)
- 1927 (Petersfield)
- 2260 (Waterlooville)
- 2327 (Havant)
- 2407 (Yateley & Eversley)
- 2412 (Bordon)
- 2428 (Hedge End)
- 2495 (Hythe)
- 2498 (Totton)
- 2515 (Ringwood & Fordingbridge)
Thames Valley wing
- Wing HQ Edward Brooks Barracks
- 136 (Chipping Norton)
- 150 (City of Oxford)
- 153 (Slough)
- 155 (Maidenhead)
- 211 (Newbury)
- 332 (High Wycombe)
- 381 (Reading)
- 447 (Henley-on-Thames)
- 459 (Windsor)
- 594 (Thame)
- 606 (Beaconsfield)
- 871 (Penn)
- 966 (Wallingford)
- 1116 (Woodley)
- 1315 (Kidlington)
- 1365 (Aylesbury)
- 1460 (Banbury) (formerly 25F)
- 1563 (Buckingham)
- 1811 (Marlow)
- 1861 (Wantage)
- 1866 (Hungerford)
- 1996 (Earley)
- 2120 (Witney)
- 2121 (Abingdon)
- 2204 (Chesham & Amersham)
- 2210 (Cowley)
- 2211 (Bracknell)
- 2267 (Brize Norton)
- 2366 (Bletchley Park)
- 2370 (Denham)
- 2402 (Burghfield)
- 2403 (Aldermaston)
- 2409 (Halton)
- 2410 (Didcot)
- 2477 (Britwell)
- 2499 (Wokingham)
- 2507 (Bicester)
- 2532 (Milton Keynes)
- Region HQ RAF Cosford
Number 2 Welsh wing
- Wing HQ Queensferry TA Centre
Number 3 Welsh wing
- Wing HQ The Grange, Swansea
Warwickshire & Birmingham wing
- Wing HQ Coventry (Army Reserve Centre Canley)
- Region HQ Leuchars Station
With effect from the 1st of February 2021, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be restructured and encompass the following Wings;
- North Scotland wing (merger of Highland and North East Scotland wings)
- Central Scotland wing (merger of select units from North East and South East Scotland wings)
- South East Scotland wing (with modified footprint)
- West Scotland wing (with modified footprint)
- Northern Ireland wing (no change)
South East Scotland wing
- Wing HQ Leuchars Station (A new Wing HQ, and new Wing HQ permanent staff, is being established within Redford Barracks, Edinburgh)
West Scotland wing
- Wing HQ Paisley Cadet Centre