MuseumNo. 1 Bristish Flying Training School Museum
Terrell · Kaufman County · THC Atlas #4200000822
Texas history, up close and curated.
About this site
No. 1 Bristish Flying Training School Museum is a museum in Terrell, Kaufman County. It is one of 177 historic sites cataloged in Kaufman County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.7178, -96.2697 near Terrell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Paschall Family (cemetery), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Burnett, William Henry, Bethlehem Baptist Church, and Texas & Pacific Railroad Freight Depot.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000822. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum in Terrell commemorates a Royal Air Force pilot-training school established in 1941, before the United States entered World War II, with strong support from the local citizenry. Terrell hosted the first and largest of six civilian-run British flying schools in the southern United States; during the war it trained about 2,200 RAF cadets and 138 U.S. Army Air Forces cadets in a 20-week program of flight instruction and ground school under the motto 'the seas divide, but the skies unite.' The museum opened in 2002 and holds the most extensive surviving archive of the No. 1 BFTS, including log books, uniforms, and wartime memorabilia.
Sources: bftsmuseum.orgtexastimetravel.comhmdb.org
