No connection with the unit - but - 228 OCU did five Basic Courses (sixth cancelled). Course length looks to have been about five months or thereabouts. Unit was notified verbally of 11 Sqn number in March 66 but no mention of confirmation. Rather good valedictory entry by the CO in the Form 540s for Jan 67:
6. After a month of make do and mend, the place is rather like a morgue. Where previously the happy laughter of instructors mingled with the groans of tormented students, now a sombre silence pervades all. Even the air smells different. The foetid odour of burning rectifiers from the simulator has been replaced by a burning paper and polish smell.
7. The hangar is clean and tidy; the ground equipment either returned to stores or in neat rows, newly painted. Only the simulator awaits its fate. MOD cannot make up its corporate mind on what to do with this fascinating, expensive and completely worthless piece of equipment. No doubt I shall recognize pieces of it in Lyle Street shops in a few weeks time.
8. Only Pete du P****** and myself await jobs; we have both been posted supernumerary to RAF Leuchars to keep the paper-work straight. We must try and find ourselves a small room with a power and water supply, where we can drink coffee and play Uckers until something turns up.