1 EFTS) was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot training unit that operated during World War II.

Training activities relocated to Tamworth, New South Wales, in May 1944; the school was disbanded in December that year.

Flying instruction in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) underwent major changes following the outbreak of World War II, in response to a vast increase in the number of aircrew volunteers and the commencement of Australia's participation in the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS).

[1][2] The EFTS provided a twelve-week introductory flying course to personnel who had graduated from one of the RAAF's initial training schools.

Those that passed this grading process then received a further eight weeks of training (including sixty-five hours of flying) at the EFTS.

Pilots who successfully completed this course were posted to an SFTS in either Australia or Canada for the next stage of their instruction as military aviators.

[4] Parafield was home to the South Australian Aero Club, and it was the airfield's position as the hub of civilian flight instruction in the state that led to it becoming the base for the first flying school the RAAF raised during World War II.

[8][9] 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".

1 EFTS's complement of aircraft was augmented on 20 April with the arrival of six de Havilland Tiger Moths.

[15] 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 EFTS relocated to Tamworth, New South Wales, during 17–28 May 1944, reportedly to allow for the expansion of civil aviation at Parafield.

[23] The RAAF had ordered the school's closure in August 1944 as part of a general reduction in aircrew training, after being informed by the British Air Ministry that it no longer required EATS graduates for the war in Europe.

[24] Significant reserves of trained Commonwealth aircrew had been built up in the UK early in 1944 prior to the invasion of Normandy, but lower-than-anticipated casualties had resulted in an over-supply that by 30 June numbered 3,000 Australians.