Empire Test Pilots' School

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Active	21 June 1943 (1943-06-21) – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Ministry of Defence (operated by QinetiQ)
Type	Test pilot school
Role	Training of test pilots and flight test engineers
Part of	Air and Space Warfare Centre
Home station	MOD Boscombe Down
Nickname(s)	ETPS
Motto(s)	Learn to test; test to learn
Aircraft	Airbus H125 AgustaWestland A-109 Power Elite Boeing Apache AH-64 AH1 Avro RJ70/RJ100 Pilatus PC-21 Bell 412 HAR2 Grob G 120TP Diamond DA42

The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England. It was established in 1943, the first of its type. The school moved to RAF Cranfield in October 1945, then to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in July 1947, before returning to Boscombe Down on 29 January 1968.^[1]

Its motto is "Learn to test; test to learn".

ETPS is run by the MoD and defence contractor QinetiQ under a long-term agreement.