No. 1 School of Technical Training RAF
No.1 School of Technical Training School badge Active 1919 – present Country United Kingdom Branch Royal Air Force Type Defence training school Role Aircraft engineering training Size c. 2,000 students annually Part of Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering Location RAF Cosford Motto(s) Crescentes Discimus (Latin for Growing we learn ) Colours Royal colour awarded 1952 Insignia Badge A beech tree bearing fruit on a grassy mount Badge heraldry RAF Halton, where the school was formed, is overlooked by a beech tree woodland. No. 1 School of Technical Training ( No. 1 S of TT ) is the Royal Air Force's aircraft engineering school, based at RAF Halton from 1919 to 1993, as the Home of the Aircraft Apprentice scheme. The Aircraft Apprentice scheme trained young men in the mechanical trades for aircraft maintenance, the graduates of which were the best trained technicians in the RAF and would usually progress ...