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 <strong>Air</strong> 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 <strong>Air</strong> 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 <strong>Air</strong> 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 <strong>Air</strong> 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 <strong>Air</strong> Corps Training Center; Pine Bluff School of Avia Uon, Pine Bluff, Ark. Parks <strong>Air</strong> College, East st. LOUis, Ill. Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., Sikeston Mo. Spartan Sctool of Aeronautics, Municipal <strong>Air</strong>port Tulsa Okla. <strong>Air</strong> 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 <strong>Air</strong> Corps Training Centerir ou€hwest <strong>Air</strong>ways, Inc. Plioen1x iz. Ryan School of AeronautIcs, Hemet, Calif. Palo Alto <strong>Air</strong>port, 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 <strong>Air</strong> Corns Training Center; Gunter Field, MOntgomery, 11a. Macon Ga. AU~lsta_ Ga. (civilian school under contract/. Tuskegee, Ala. (also an advanced school). -14- Gulf Coast <strong>Air</strong> corts Trainirg Center; Randolph Field, an Ariton 0, Texas. San Angelo, T~xas. Brady, Texas ~eivilian school under contract) • lf Coast <strong>Air</strong> Cor s Traini roo s e , an on 0, observers' school). Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, (also bombardiers' school). Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, (also navigation school). Victoria, Texas. West Coast <strong>Air</strong> Corps Training Center: stockton Ca1i1. Mather FIeld, Sacramento, Calif., (also naVigation school). Phoenix, Arizona. Panama City Fla. Las Vegas, tev. Advanced Flying Schools SQutheaii <strong>Air</strong> iorRa Training Center; ~axw. F1el Montgomery, l1a. Barksdale Fietd ..La~ (also bombardier and navigation scnool/. Selma, Ala. Albany, Ga. Gunnery Navigation Schools Sc~ Pan American <strong>Air</strong>ways, 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). ---000-- II KDP '. FLYING! •
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