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Flying Instructors School (FIS)
Motto: Doctor adfectat aeternitatem (A teacher affects eternity)
An owl perched on a key. Both the device and the motto reflect the school's important role of training pilots to be instructors for new generations of pilots.
No. I Flying Instructors' School was first formed at Trenton on 3 August 1942 to meet the increased demand for instructors in the schools of the B.C.A.T.P. When the demand eased with the reduction of the Plan in the closing months of the war, the F.I.S. was disbanded on 31 January 1945 and amalgamated with the Central Flying School. In the post-war years, as more flying training schools and advanced flying units were opened, it again became necessary to form No. 1 Flying Instructors' School at Trenton, on 1 April 1951, to supply the instructors needed for the greatly increased training programme.