RAF Transport Command

Royal Air Force Transport Command
Active25 March 1943–1 August 1967
CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
TypeCommand
RoleControlling transport aircraft
HeadquartersRAF Upavon[1] Previously Harrow[2]
Motto(s)Latin: Ferio Ferendo
("I Strike by Carrying")[3]
EngagementsSecond World War
Cold War
Insignia
Badge heraldryA golden griffon in front of a globe

RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of the RAF Ferry Command, and was subsequently renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967.

  1. ^ Delve 1994, p. 85.
  2. ^ Delve 1994, p. 74.
  3. ^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 74. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

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