News Letter 1941 Jul-Dec - Air Force Historical Studies Office

THE AVIATION
CADET TRAINING PROGRAM
A new record in the number of applicants
accepted for flight training was set during
the week ending June 21, a total of 786 men
receiving assignments as aviation cadets.
The previous high, 555 accepted applicants,
was set during the week ending June 14.
The Air Corps now has over 9,000 aviation
cadets in training--most of them as piloteat
civilian contract and Army flying schools.
Early this fall, the Air Corps will attain
its 12,00o-pilote-a-year rate of training,
when it will have 51 schools in operatio~
Thirty-four new flying schools are being
added to the Air Corps training systellunder
the program to train pilots at the rate of
30,000 a year, thus raising the total n~
ber in the training system to 85.
Elementary Flying Schools
Under the 12,00o-pilot training program!
26 civilian SChools are under War Departmen
contract to give elementary training, as
follows:
SO~iheast Air Co~s Training Center:
8hama InstitU:e 01 Aeronautics, Inc.,
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Embry-Riddle Co., Carlstrom Field,
Arcadia, Fla.
Darr Aero Tech. Inc., Albany, Ga.
Lincoln Flying ~ChOOl! Lakeland A Fla.
Graham Aviation Co. mericus, ~a.
Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics,
Inc., Jackson, Miss.
Chicago School of Aeronautics, Albany,
Ga., and Lakeland, Fla.
Southern Aviation School, Camden, S.C.
Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center;
Pine Bluff School of Avia Uon, Pine Bluff,
Ark.
Parks Air College, East st. LOUis, Ill.
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, Inc.,
Sikeston Mo.
Spartan Sctool of Aeronautics, Municipal
Airport Tulsa Okla.
Air ActivIties of Texas, Corsicanna, Tex.
Brayton Flying SerVice, Inc., Cuero Tex.
Texas Aviation School, Inc., Hicks tield,
Fort Worth, Tex.
Lou Foote Flying SerVice, Stanford, Tex.
welt Coast Air Corps Training Centerir
ou€hwest Airways, Inc. Plioen1x iz.
Ryan School of AeronautIcs, Hemet, Calif.
Palo Alto Airport, Inc., King City, Calif.
Cal-Aero Training Corp., Ontario, Calif.
Cal-A.ero Training Corp. Oxnard Calif.
Ryan School of AeronautIcs, Lin!bergh
Field, San Diego, Calif.
Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics,
Santa Maria, Calif •.
Rankin Aeronautics Academy, Inc., Tulare,
Calif.
Basic Flying Schools
Southeast Air Corns Training Center;
Gunter Field, MOntgomery, 11a.
Macon Ga.
AU~lsta_ Ga. (civilian school under contract/.
Tuskegee, Ala. (also an advanced school).
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Gulf Coast Air corts Trainirg Center;
Randolph Field, an Ariton 0, Texas.
San Angelo, T~xas.
Brady, Texas ~eivilian school under contract)
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lf Coast Air Cor s Traini
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observers' school).
Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, (also
bombardiers' school).
Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, (also
navigation school).
Victoria, Texas.
West Coast Air Corps Training Center:
stockton Ca1i1.
Mather FIeld, Sacramento, Calif., (also
naVigation school).
Phoenix, Arizona.
Panama City Fla.
Las Vegas, tev.
Advanced Flying Schools
SQutheaii Air iorRa Training Center;
~axw. F1el Montgomery, l1a.
Barksdale Fietd ..La~ (also bombardier and
navigation scnool/.
Selma, Ala.
Albany, Ga.
Gunnery
Navigation
Schools
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Pan American Airways, Inc. (under contract).
In stepping up the pilot training program
from 12,000 to 30,000, the contract civilian
elementary flying schools are increased from
26 to 41; the basic military flying schools
from 7 to 15; the advan~ed military flying
sChools! (single engine), from 3 to 7, and
two--eng ne from 8 to 14; the flexible gunnery
training military schools,jrom2 to 3;
and the Replaceme~t Centers, (pilot, bom.-
bardier, navigator) from 3 to 4.
No increase has been made over and above
the three basic civilian flying schools under
contract, the one basic-advanced military
school, and the one contract civil naVigation
school.
Sites for 12 of the 19 additional Army
schools to be established under the 30,000-
pilot program have already been selected by
the War Department viz: Advanced Schoole--
Dothan Ala •• Moultrie and Valdosta, Ga.;
GreenvIlle, Miss.; Lake Charles, La.; Midland
and ~ubbock, Texas, and Victorvl11e,
Calif.; Basic Schools--Sumter, S.C.; Sebring,
Fla., and Higley, Ariz.; and Harlingen,
Texas (gunnery school).
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