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

[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.

5 EFTS) was formed at Narromine, New South Wales, on 24 May 1940, and came under the control of Central Area Command, headquartered in Sydney.

[4] Accommodation facilities were, according to the unit operations book, "bleak and depressing" and deficiencies in equipment were "too numerous for itemising".

5 EFTS were killed when a Tiger Moth crashed on 3 August 1940, possibly caused by a stall while practising forced landings.

[14] An instructor was killed and his pupil injured when their Tiger Moth stalled while attempting to avoid collision with another aircraft on 3 December.

[6][15] Later that month, Squadron Leader Roy King, a fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I, took over command of the school, serving until June 1941.

[17] Among the graduates was R.H. (Ron) Middleton, who subsequently flew with the Royal Air Force in Europe and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions piloting a Short Stirling bomber in November 1942.

[21][22] By July 1943, total strength stood at 748, including thirty-three members of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF); the unit was operating eighty-seven Tiger Moths and one Ryan.