An Air Experience Flight (AEF) is a training unit of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) whose main purpose is to give introductory flying experience to cadets from the Air Training Corps and the Combined Cadet Force.
[1] All were equipped with the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 trainer.
5 AEF, which also operated a single Beagle Husky (XW635) from 1969 to 1989.
[2][3] In the mid-1990s they were merged with co-located University Air Squadrons (UASs), the Chipmunks being replaced by the existing UAS Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1s.
[4] The Royal Air Force (RAF) Air Experience Flights (AEF)[5] are co-located with University Air Squadron (UAS) units; the co-located AEF and UAS units pool resources and share aircraft.