Boulton Paul Balliols. Army Air Corps use In 1954 a Development Flight (CFS) with helicopters was formed there, this led to the Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit in 1955. On 1 September 1957, when British Army aviation became independent of the RAF, Middle Wallop transferred to the new Army Air Corps, and the School of Army Aviation was established. It changed its name to the Army Aviation Centre on 1 August 2009. Operational units Flying and notable non-flying units based at Middle Wallop Airfield. British Army Army Air Corps Headquarters Army Air Corps Army Historic Aircraft Flight – Auster AOP.9, Beaver AL.1, Chipmunk T.10, Scout AH.1, Sioux AH.1, Skeeter AOP.12 Joint Helicopter Command / Army Air Corps Army Aviation Centre 2 (Training) Regiment 676 Squadron 668 (Training) Squadron 7 (Training) Regiment 670 Squadron 671 Squadron – Gazelle, Bell 212 673 Squadron – Apache AH1 Army Flying Grading Flight – Tutor T1 667 (Development & Trials) Squadron – Apache AH1, Gazelle AH1 and Wildcat AH1 In Literature The opening scene and several subsequent scenes in Victor Canning's 1972 thriller The Rainbird Pattern are set in the AAC. References Citations Bibliography Freeman, Roger A. (1994) UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now 1994. After the Battle Freeman, Roger A. (1996) The Ninth Air Force in Colour: UK and the Continent-World War Two. After the Battle Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. . ArmyAirForces.com 67th Reconnaissance Group External links Army Aviation Centre History of RAF bases Aerial Photo of Army Air Corps Middle Wallop from Multimap.Com Photographs of Army Air Corps Middle Wallop from the Geograph British Isles project Category:Army Air Corps airfields Category:Airfields of the IX Fighter Command in the United Kingdom Category:Organisations based in Hampshire