Southeast Air Corps Training Center

Southeast Air Corps Training Center is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command, stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama. It was inactivated on 15 December 1945.

History
Established when the United States Army Air Corps redesignated its training center at Maxwell Field, Alabama as the Southeast Air Corps Training Center. The Southeast Air Corps Training Center at Maxwell handled flying training (basic, primary and advanced) at airfields in the Eastern United States.

On 31 July 1943, was redesignated as the Eastern Flying Training Command. Inactivated on 15 December 1945, being consolidated into Central Flying Training Command at Randolph Field, Texas.

Lineage

 * Established as Southeast Air Corps Training Center on 8 July 1940
 * Redesignated: Eastern Flying Training Command, 31 July 1943
 * Inactivated on 15 December 1945

Major components
(Does not include axillary and emergency landing fields)


 * 74th Flying Training Wing (Preflight); HQ EFTC, Maxwell Field, Alabama
 * AAF Flying School (Advanced, Four-Engine, Transition), Maxwell Field, Alabama (1940-1944)
 * AAF Flying School (Advanced, Specialized Very Heavy Bombers), Maxwell Field, Alabama (1944-1945)
 * AAF Flying School (Basic), Troy Field, Alabama
 * AAF Flying School (Basic-Advanced), Stewart Field, New York


 * 27th Flying Training Wing (Basic), Cochran Field, Georgia
 * 6th Basic Flying Training Group, Greenville Field, Mississippi
 * 7th Basic Flying Training Group, Greenwood Field, Mississippi
 * 8th Basic Flying Training Group, Gunter Field, Alabama
 * 13th Basic Flying Training Group, Courtland Field, Alabama
 * 14th Basic Flying Training Group, Anniston Field, Alabama
 * 319th Aviation Group (Basic), Malden Field, Missouri
 * AAF Basic Flying School, Newport Field, Arkansas
 * AAF Basic Flying School, Muscle Shoals Field, Alabama
 * AAF Flying School (Basic), Shaw Field, South Carolina


 * 28th Flying Training Wing (Advanced, Single-Engine), Craig Field, Alabama
 * 18th Single Engine Flying Training Group, Napier Field, Alabama
 * AAF Flying School (Basic; Advanced, Single-Engine), Tuskegee Field, Alabama
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Single-Engine), Malden Field, Florida
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Single-Engine), Bainbridge Field, Georgia
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Single-Engine), Spence Field, Georgia


 * 29th Flying Training Wing (Primary), Moody Field, Georgia
 * Controlled all USAAF Contract Flying School Airfields under EFTC for primary flight training.


 * 75th Flying Training Wing (Flexible Gunnery), Buckingham Field, Florida
 * AAF Flexible Gunnery School, Naples Field, Florida
 * AAF Flexible Gunnery School, Apalachicola Field, Florida
 * AAF Flexible Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Florida


 * 30th Flying Training Wing (Advanced, Twin-Engine), Columbus Field, Mississippi
 * 25th Twin Engine Flying Training Group, Blytheville Field, Arkansas
 * 27th Twin Engine Flying Training Group, Columbus Field, Mississippi
 * 33d Twin Engine Flying Training Group, Freeman Field, Indiana
 * Redesignated as USAAF Helicopter Pilot School, 1 June-30 Oct 1944
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Stuttgart Field, Arkansas
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Walnut Ridge Field, Arkansas
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Turner Field, Georgia
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Vidalia Field, Georgia
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Cordele Army Airfield, Georgia
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Tifton Field, Georgia


 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), George Field, Illinois
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Moody Field, Georgia
 * AAF Navigator School, Selman Field, Louisiana
 * AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine), Lockbourne Field, Ohio
 * AAF Pilot School, Miscellaneous Fields (Basic; Advanced Single and Twin-Engine), Jackson Army Airbase, Mississippi
 * AAF Navigator School, Barksdale Field, Louisiana


 * 76th Flying Training Wing (Specialized 4-Engine), Smyrna Field, Tennessee
 * AAF Specialized Pilot Training School (4-Engine), William Northern Army Airfield, Tennessee
 * AAF Specialized Pilot Training School (4-Engine), Campbell Field, Kentucky
 * AAF Specialized Pilot Training School (4-Engine), Hendricks Field, Florida
 * AAF Specialized Pilot Training School (4-Engine), Immokalee Field, Florida