RAF Halton

The RAF’s Central Training School (CTS) is responsible for ensuring that individual ground training in the RAF is aligned with the Defence Systems Approach to Training. The organisation’s mission is to ensure the continuous improvement of RAF Training; ‘The right training, delivered right.’
To achieve this it provides training analysis, design/delivery, and assurance advice and governance to ensure training is fit for purpose and meets operational needs. The Commandant of CTS, is also Head of the Training Specialisation.

Contact details

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: 07958 526399

Rehearsal night
Tuesday 19:30 to 21:30

How to join/ book
Contact Voluntary Band Instructor as above.

The Specialist Training Squadron, which is part of No 22 Group, provides training in Environmental Management, Health and Safety, and Quality Management. The school is staffed by a dedicated team of specialists, all highly experienced in their respective fields. Training is offered in short, highly focused courses, ensuring that staff are not absent from the work place for longer than necessary. If sufficient personnel from one unit require training, including overseas, it can be delivered on-site. The Environmental Protection and Health and Safety areas provide courses accredited to the leading bodies in the respective fields.

Sport is a vital component of any armed force and a critical element of how the RAF builds operational capability and more specifically warrior spirit. The Directorate of Sport together with its supporting charities help deliver opportunities at each and every level; helping to develop the character, spirit, and attitude of personnel and preparing them to face the challenges associated with military service.

The RAF has 54 sporting associations, ranging from mainstream sports such as hockey, netball, football, and rugby, to the more extreme, such as kite surfing, sports parachuting, and snowboarding. Whatever you might be interested in, there is an association for you.

AvTA trains new military personnel to perform to the highest standard for military operations, including Recruit Training Squadron (RTS) and Aviator Command Squadron (ACS).
RTS delivers the Basic Recruit Training Course (BRTC) with an annual throughput of approximately 2300 personnel, as well as training to our Reserve Cadre through the BRTC Reserve course.
ACS delivers the Direct-Entry Senior Non-Commissioned Officer course and Aviator Development Phase 3 training to RAF non-commissioned Aviators to ensure they are innovative in thought and better prepared as contextualised leaders with an operational mindset.

On 5 December 2022 Royal Air Force Special Investigations Branch (SIB) merged with other single service SIBs to form the Defence Serious Crime Unit (DSCU). The DSCU East Region HQ and Halton Office are both located at RAF Halton.

The Reginal Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) delivers specialist rehabilitation through Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) consultants, physiotherapists, podiatrists and Exercise Rehab Instructors (ERIs), supported by an administration team. They provide multi-disciplinary injury assessment clinics, podiatry services and 2 week residential rehabilitation courses. Rehabilitation courses are split into lower limbs, spines, and upper quadrant to allow for specific educational and physical development.

Our population consists of over 20,000 personnel within the Central and Wessex Region, units include:

• RAF Halton
• RAF High Wycombe
• RAF Benson
• Bicester
• Abingdon
• RAF Brize Norton
• Overseas, including Cyprus

The Photographic Air Combat Service Support Unit (ACSSU) is established to promote Air Power by providing the UK Government, MOD, and single service with visual communications support to key Defence messaging.

The unit is a specialist, extremely high readiness (EHR) Visual Communication production section, established to deliver its core capabilities on behalf of a variety of stakeholders and support diverse requirements. These requirements may be planned or contingency-based, and include but are not limited to:

• Humanitarian Relief activities
• Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)
• Military Aid to Civilian Authorities (MACA)
• Aircraft Post-Crash Management (APCM)

The purpose of the Counter-Intelligence Capability Threats Team is to provide specialist Counter Intelligence and security services through the full spectrum of threats in support of the RAF.

The team falls under Number 2 Counter Intelligence and Security Squadron employ specialist counter-intelligence and protective security on counter-intelligence capability threat teams around the UK. Those in the Air environment are capability focused and are both proactive and reactive in their approach; aiming to protect air operations by identifying, disrupting, denying, exploiting and mitigating against hostile threat actors, principally in the human domain.