This weekend saw the first Field Skills Training Weekend (FTW) based around the new syllabus for Sector 6 cadets. The event was hosted over 3 days at the Garelochhead military training area above the Faslane Nuclear Submarine base with the aim of teaching cadets the basic principles behind fieldcraft. As you can see from the...
Saturday 30th April proved to be a very lucrative day for 470 Squadron as we packed bags for the customers of Tesco’s Falkirk Retail Park store. The cadet team supported by Adult Staff and Civilian Committee members raised £825.00 for Squadron funds which is a fantastic result and we all extremely thankful to the customers who...
On Friday 20th May 2016 we will be running an Open Night for potential recruits. Our first intake in February was a huge success and as our latest recruits will soon complete their initial training we want to replicate this with a new training flight. The Open Night will consist of our recruitment presentation...
Cadets and staff from 470 (Falkirk) Squadron and 1333 (Grangemouth Spitfire) Squadron were pleased to take part in the parade to celebrate the unveiling of the Camelon War Memorial on Saturday 23rd April 2016. Both Squadrons formed up with the other services to march from Camelon Labor Club to the new memorial at Lock 16...
March led to the unusual situation where we had three cadets with the same score at the end of the month meaning for the first time we have three joint winners. Congratulations to Cadet Connor Dixon, Cadet Daniel Macpherson and Cadet Michael Purcell who are all currently part of our first intake for 2016 and working towards their...
As Friday April 1st was the final day of the school term for cadets in Falkirk we thought we would take a break from the normal programme and invite a guest speaker. We were very pleased to have Stuart Shanks from a local company called UAV Services UK Limited who visited 470 Squadron to discuss the commercial implications...
Feb 2016 was an extremely close month in the COTM competition with a small group of new NCO’s pulling away from the pack due to their additional promotion points. There can only be one winner and we are pleased to announce that Corporal Adam Davidson had the highest score for February.
Congratulations to all our cadets who received promotions this month. It proved to be very difficult for the staff to narrow down the candidates this time round as we had a number of very good cadets on the short list. In order from left to right on group picture Sgt Eilidh Macintyre promoted to Flight Sergeant –...
470 (Falkirk) Squadron is very proud of our 75 year history and we are very excited to celebrate this significant milestone as the rest of the Air Training Corps celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. We were officially formed by Royal Warrant on February 21st 1941 and have been operating as a unit continuously for 75 years...
For 2016 we have introduced a new Cadet of the Month Award at 470 which is based around a set of criteria that is graded each month. Our first winner for January 2016 is Cadet Evan Rowles – Well Done Evan!
