page_title: 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron
section_title: Pilot training
hierarchical_section_title: 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron / Pilot training
caption_attribution_description: English: A Cessna 208 Caravan assigned to the Iraqi air force Flying Training Wing flies over Northern Iraq during a recent training mission.
context_page_description: The 52d Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron is part of the Iraq Training and Advisory Mission - Air Force and is based at Camp Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq. It operates Beechcraft T-6A Texan II aircraft conducting flight training for members of the Iraqi Air Force.
  It was tasked to train, educate and advise Iraqi Airmen in order to build the institutional capacity to conduct credible fixed and rotary wing flight training for the Iraqi Air Force. In late 2011, all U.S. forces were withdrawn from Iraq and the squadron was probably inactivated.
context_section_description: It conducted undergraduate pilot training from 1972–1977 and 1990-1997.
  The 52d was reactivated in March 2007 as the first ever US Air Force expeditionary flying training squadron and the first flying training squadron activated in a combat zone. Its mission is to train, educate and advice Iraqi airmen to conduct undergraduate and instructor pilot training for the Iraqi Air Force.
caption: An Iraqi Air Force Cessna 208 flies over Iraq on a training sortie.
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