RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire near the village of Cranwell. This image is Crown copyright protected. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ... Cranwell is a village in mid Lincolnshire that became famous for the RAF College built to the west and two associated airfields. ...

Cranwell is home to the Royal Air Force College (RAFC), which trains the RAFs new officers on a 26-week course. It is thus the RAF equivalent of Sandhurst or the Britannia Royal Naval College, and is considered by some to be the spiritual home of the RAF. In military organizations, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. ... Sandhurst is the name of several villages in the UK, the most famous being the one in Berkshire near Camberley. ... The Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), founded on its present site on a hill above the town of Dartmouth, Devon, England, in 1905, is the principal location for the training of officers for the Royal Navy. ...

No.3 Flying Training School (FTS), training navigators and non-commissioned aircrew, is also based there. Cranwell is also home to two of the RAF bands. For the WWW browsers of the same name, see Netscape Navigator and Mozilla. ... A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), or NCO, is an enlisted member of an armed force who has been delegated leadership or command authority by a commissioned officer. ... In the Royal Air Force and United Kingdom the word Aircrew is used to describe the flying crew of the aeroplane. ...

Since the mid-1990s, Cranwell has been home to Headquarters, Air Cadets. The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a UK cadet force. ...