Elementary Flying Training School at Essendon, Victoria, and No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School at Mascot, New South Wales. No. 2 Flying Training School's first thirteen de Havilland Gipsy Moth training aircraft were delivered to Parafield on 16–17 December 1939. The unit was renamed No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School (No. 1 EFTS) on 2 January 1940. The first eight-week flying training course began on 8 January with twenty-three students; another joined a week later. According to the unit operations book, limited flying was possible owing to the number of available parachutes but, on 19 January, "permission was granted to continue training without them until supplies were forthcoming". The second flying course began on 5 February. An instructor and his cadet were killed in a crash on 19 March. No. 1 EFTS's complement of aircraft was augmented on 20 April with the arrival of six de Havilland Tiger Moths. The school's inaugural EATS course, consisting of twenty-four students, commenced on 29 April 1940; all but one of the students graduated. Five more Tiger Moths arrived on 25 June. On 22 July, three aircraft belonging to the South Australian Aero Club were pressed into service, and training by the club ceased. No. 1 EFTS received three CAC Wackett Trainers on 26 June 1941. On 2 August 1941, control of the school was transferred from Southern Area Command, which had been formed in March 1940, to the newly established No. 1 (Training) Group. As of December 1942, No.1 EFTS had 116 students under instruction; a total of 1,184 trainees—81 air cadets and 1,043 EATS students—had passed through the school. A year later No.1 EFTS had eighty-five students under instruction and a total of 1,628 had passed through. No. 1 EFTS relocated to Tamworth, New South Wales, during 17–28 May 1944, reportedly to allow for the expansion of civil aviation at Parafield. Training units in New South Wales came under the control of No. 2 (Training) Group. On 10 September, a student was killed when his Tiger Moth crashed south of Tamworth aerodrome. All flying training at No. 1 EFTS came to an end on 15 September, by which time a total of 1,991 students had passed through the school. Pilots still undergoing instruction were posted to No. 8 Elementary Flying School at Narrendera, New South Wales, and No. 11 Elementary Flying School at Benalla, Victoria. The RAAF had ordered the school's closure