The Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) provides high quality, relevant and up-to-date Aeronautical Engineering (AE) training to fulfil the needs of today and tomorrow’s front line – providing trained and motivated personnel to deliver the UK’s defence capability. With its headquarters located at RAF Cosford, the DSAE is a federated school delivering training at three separate sites; AE and Survival Equipment (SE) elements of Royal Navy training at the Air Engineering and Survival Equipment School at HMS Sultan in Gosport, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers aviation training at the School of Army Aviation at Arborfield Garrison and Royal Air Force AE, Weapons and SE training at the No 1 School of Technical Training and the Aerosystems Engineer and Management Training School at RAF Cosford. The DSAE is proud of its reputation for producing high calibre AE, Weapons and SE graduates ready to serve on the front line. The quality of the training provided by the DSAE has been recognised by many of our friends and allies, many of whose Navy, Army and Air Force Officers and Technicians have benefitted from and continue to enjoy being fully embedded into the DSAE training system. The DSAE has successfully developed partnering relationships with International Defence Training Service teams, to deliver Government to Government, UK industry and strategic overseas programmes. Although the DSAE is a federation of military units, it continues to enhance its home and overseas reputation by rigorously applying itself as an evolving cost-effective enterprise, using modern learning techniques and developing customer-focused initiatives. The DSAE is a modern military organisation which prides itself on ensuring that excellence and quality underpin all of its output to Defence.

