The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is a volunteer-military youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Air Force that manages both the Air Training Corps and RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. The organisation is headed by a former serving RAF officer, Commandant Air Cadets. The current commandant is Air Commodore Tony Keeling.
Prior to 1 October 2017, the RAFAC was called the Air Cadet Organisation (ACO). As of 1 April 2014, the ACO had a strength of 53,360 cadets and cadet force adult volunteers.
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table 8a and 8b, page 17-18. April 2014. Cadets are aged between 12 and 17 on entry to the organisation, and can remain until they are 18, or with special permission, until they are 20.
The RAFAC is made up of:
* Headquarters Air Cadets at RAF Cranwell
* 6 Regional Headquarters
* 34 Wing Headquarters
* Two National Air Cadet Adventure Training Centres
* Over 900 Air Training Corps Squadrons in the UK and overseas
* Around 200 RAF contingents of the Combined Cadet Force
See also
*Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch)
*Air Experience Flight
*Volunteer Gliding Squadrons
*Air Defence Cadet Corps (1938–41)
*Royal Air Force boy entrants
References
External links
* {{Official website
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force Air Cadets,
Air Cadet organisations,
Air Training Corps,
British Cadet organisations
Youth organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Lincolnshire
Youth organizations established in 1941