During October 1954, when it was running the 15th All Purpose Flying Instructors Course, it was also ordered to move down south to Tambaram. From its inception till its move to Tambaram, it had conducted fourteen courses; a rate of a little more than two training courses per year. Initially it had produced only about five instructors per course and that had slowly increased to about 9 for the 15th course. The needs of the Air Force were increasing by leaps and bounds. More instructors were urgently needed. Therefore, now that the unit was located in a place where it had room to expand, the intake was substantially increased for the 16th APFI course to a pupil-strength of 25 including one officer from the Army.