The RAF Air Cadets offer young people exciting opportunities for personal and professional development. We’re an inclusive organisation that cares about helping young people reach their potential. Every year nearly 43,000 air cadets and 10,000 volunteer staff take part in exciting events at over 1,000 squadrons across the UK.
Life as an Air Cadet at 470 (Falkirk) Squadron is full of adventure and life enhancing experiences!
When you join the RAF Air Cadets you will have the opportunity to try a range of wide range of exciting activities and challenges, make new friends and build skills and confidence.
Every unit has to make their accommodation work for them. Our current joint cadet centre may not be the largest facility available to the Corps but we have invested heavily over the last 10 years to make it our unique home.
We have a long connection with the town centre since our formation in February 1941 and we are proud to continue to serve the town multiple generations later.
Just like our parent service we are encouraging young people to study STEM subjects to help them realise their full potential in whatever career they choose – Civilian or Armed Forces.
470 has been at the forefront of this revolution and with our dedicated staff of volunteers drawn from many technical and engineering disciplines we continue to live up to our motto of “Engineered to Succeed”.
We are in the very fortunate position as a Squadron that our Civilian Commitee maintains a dedicated minibus for the use of the Squadron. We had a significant issue prior to its arrival where cadets were struggling to make their own way to events across the central belt and were losing out. The arrival of the minibus in 2018 has given our staff a huge degree of flexibility and provided a level playing field ever since.
