The wing directed flying training at Flight Schools in the Southeastern United States. While its direct superior, regional flying training command did change twice, ultimately it was part of
Army Air Forces Training Command. The assigned schools provided phase II basic flying training for Air Cadets Graduates of the advanced schools were commissioned as Second Lieutenants, received their "wings" and were reassigned to Operational or Replacement Training Units operated by one of the four numbered air forces in the
Zone of the Interior.[1]
As training requirements changed during the war, and schools were activated and inactivated or transferred to meet those requirements.[1]
The schools primarily flew the Vultee BT-13 / BT-15 Valiant for basic flying instruction. In 1945, the North American AT-6 Texan was also used. Some of the schools later converted to four-engine B-24 transition and single-engine fighter transition schools
The wing was disbanded in June 1946. There is no lineage link, according to official U.S. Air Force lineage rules, between the
27th Fighter Wing (now the 27th Special Operations Wing), established on 28 July 1947 at
Kearney Army Airfield, Nebraska, and the 27th FTW.
Lineage
Established as 27th Flying Training Wing on 17 December 1942
Opened: December 1941, Closed: December 1944 (BT-13, BT-15)[11]
Began flying AT-10 two-engine trainers, February 1944; became advanced single-engine transition school (P-47, P-51, P-63), May 1945; Remained open after the war, now USAF Shaw Air Force Base
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abc27th Flying Training Wing, lineage and history document Air Force Historical Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama