page_title: No. 10 Air Experience Flight RAF
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: No. 10 Air Experience Flight RAF / History
caption_attribution_description: English: De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 of No.10 AEF at RAF Woodvale Lancashire in 1983
context_page_description: 10 Air Experience Flight is one of twelve such units run by the Air Cadet Organisation of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in the 1950s, along with other AEFs, to teach basic flying to members of the Air Training Corps, Combined Cadet Force Section. It mainly flies cadets from the local wings of Cumbria and North Lancashire Wing|Cumbria and North Lancashire, Greater Manchester Wing, Merseyside Wing, No. 2 Welsh Wing, the East Lancashire Wing, CCF contingents and Air Scouts. It will also fly cadets on annual camp at RAF Valley, when it will sometimes send an aircraft to RAF Mona for a day to fly the cadets on camp there. This increases the chance of flying for all cadets and cuts the road journey from RAF Valley to RAF Woodvale. Air cadets and CCF sections from Northern Ireland also fly at Woodvale.
context_section_description: 10 AEF was raised on 8 September 1958 at RAF Woodvale, which is located near Southport. It is one of the few AEFs that has not been moved to another location or temporarily disbanded and later reformed.  In 1996 10 AEF was placed under the command of Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron (UAS), one of the two UAS' to operate out of Woodvale, the other being Liverpool University Air Squadron.
  10 AEF fly the Grob Tutor aircraft, which it gained in 2001; prior to that it was equipped with the Scottish Aviation Bulldog from 1996 and the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk from 1958 - 1996. In both cases where the Air Experience Flights have updated their aircraft, 10 AEF has been the last to receive their new mounts. 10 AEF, like all AEFs, no longer own their own aircraft but use other machines from the two UAS' at RAF Woodvale.
  From April 2017 to May 2019 flying was suspended due to infrastructure issues. The main runway was rebuilt in early 2019 and flying resumed in May.
caption: No.10 AEF Chipmunk T.10 aircraft at RAF Woodvale in 1983
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