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Monday 7:20pm - 9:20pm Thursday 7:20pm - 9:20pm

2531 Burnham-On-Crouch Detached Flight ATC, Burnham on Crouch (2026)

The cadet experience is open to everyone, so whatever your nationality, background or ability, whether you're male or female, if you're between 13, or at age 12 when beginning school year 8, YOU can join us! The maximum age for entry is 17 years old, therefore you can request to join us anytime between your 12th and 17th birthday.

10/08/2026

Ahead of our Summer break, a quick post on some of the activities we have been up to in July and August.

SGT Wright, an EMT with the London Ambulance Service, brought an ambulance and equipment to the unit to ‘show and tell’ what he does for the day job, the kit they use and the inside of an ambulance.

Some of our cadets attended the Pioneers of Tomorrow event at Farnborough where they enjoyed an afternoon airshow and walking the halls finding out about the aerospace industry and new developments.

After a couple of false starts we got our cadets into the air again with Air Experience Flying at RAF Wittering.

Leadership skills, tested through command tasks, continue to be developed and form a core of the soft skills we teach our cadets which will aid them in their future careers.

We also had cadet attendance at the RAF Cosford annual camp where the cadets spent time with various units including the School of Technical Training which trains the RAF’s engineers and engineering apprentices.

Finally, we presented awards for cadet classifications, flying and shooting and Cadet Rowley was our cadet of the month for July.

In August our cadets will be attending the Stow Marie’s airshow, the Shuttleworth Collection show and a trip to meet the USAF at RAF Mildenhall.

Our next recruitment night will be on Thursday 1st October following the Carnival and more details will be posted nearer the time.

02/07/2026

Congratulations to Sergeant Wright who last week completed his Combined Initial Course at the RAFAC Command & Leadership School at RAFC Cranwell.

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If you are interested in a volunteering role with the RAF Air Cadets, we have a few ways you can get involved with varying levels of commitment. See the RAFAC website for more information or pop in and see us at Burnham Baptist Church on Mondays and Thursdays from 19:30.

08/06/2026

At our monthly OC’s Parade we presented awards for the Blue Space syllabus, as well as Leading and Senior cadet classifications and Sgt. Vincent received her Silver Radio badge;
our Cadet of the month was Cadet Maas.

Following an NCO promotion interview process in May we made the following promotions:
Cadet Southern is now appointed to Corporal
Corporal Vincent is now appointed Sergeant and Sergeant Parrish is now appointed Flight Sergeant.

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04/05/2026

Ahead of the Bank Holiday break, cadets, recruits and staff from 2531DF attended Essex Fire & Rescue’s Burnham-on-Crouch Fire Station - arranged by ex-FS George Kennedy who is now an on-call firefighter based there.
Our recruitment window is still open, our next parade night is Thursday 7th May at 19:15 at Burnham Baptist Church.

Split into two groups they were shown around the station’s two appliances, including all the equipment they carry, learnt about the types of calls the crews attend and how the station operates.

The cadets were then given the opportunity to operate the water hoses; surprisingly no staff or cadets got wet!

We would like to thank Steve, Dan and George for taking the time to show us around.

If you live and work in Burnham, Essex Fire & Rescue are always on the lookout for potential on-call crew, details here - https://www.essex-fire.gov.uk/recruitment/on-call

If you want to volunteer with the RAF Air Cadets, information can be found here - https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/volunteers1/being-a-volunteer/

14/04/2026

Last night our cadets planned our next recruitment open evening and also took the opportunity to practice some of the ‘soft skills’ that we teach, presenting and public speaking, by hosting an inter-flight debate and proposing what the best RAFAC uniform is.
Our recruitment open evening will be on Thursday 16th April at Burnham Baptist Church from 19:45; potential recruits and their parents and siblings are all welcome.

Our cadets will show you just some of the activities that we do on the unit and tell you about those we do across the organisation; they may even tell you what uniform choice won the debate!

06/04/2026

The DF is closed for the Easter break and we thought we’d keep you up to date with recent activity.

Thanks to the Indy Bakery who generously donated some of their test baking a few weeks ago; needless to say there was no waste and very good reviews!

Ahead of the Falklands Competition in June, our cadets have been practicing some of the disciplines included in the event such as first aid, casualty evacuation, and pictured in this post, the field gun race. On that note, we currently have to borrow the ‘gun’ from our parent unit; if there are any local engineering firms or fabricators that could make a replica, we can then have our own and also run a head to head race at the Carnival this year!

We also had a visit from Essex Police where the cadets learned about the role of the Police and the different incidents that they are involved with. They also completed a quiz activity, had an open Q&A and got to use and see some of the equipment officers carry.

We were closed on Maundy Thursday but held a staff & NCO team meeting to discuss and plan the months ahead.

Finally, we did some camouflage and concealment exercises, how many cadets can you see in the final picture!

Our next recruitment intake evening is on Thursday 16th April from 19:45-21:00 at the Burnham Baptist Church; potential recruits and their parents and siblings are welcome to attend. You must be in at least year 8 to join. We will have another intake at the beginning of October for those going up to Year 8 in September.

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Burnham On Crouch
CM08HJ

Opening Hours

Monday	7:20pm - 9:20pm
Thursday	7:20pm - 9:20pm

Website

http://www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/

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