Flying Training Command needed the station to reform No 1 Glider Training School.
During this period, the facility was under the Flying Training Command and the Air Training Command.
Through 1946 Richmond worked as a flight surgeon with the Air Force's Flying Training Command.
It was then transferred again to Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940.
Private flying schools operated under contract by Flying Training Command, providing primary pilot training to new air cadets.
In 1941 the Air Corps directed Flying Training Command to establish a glider training program.
In addition, there were other small technical training schools at various Flying Training Command and Second Air Force bases.
The single entity became Flying Training Command on 1 January 1946, with its headquarters at Randolph Field, Texas.
HQAC was formed 1 May 1960 within Flying Training Command.
On 31 July 1943, was redesignated as the Western Flying Training Command.