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unusual facts about flying club



Fly-in

They may be organized by a national organization, such as the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association or the Experimental Aircraft Association, the airport owner or authority, a flying club, an aircraft type club or by a group of friends meeting perhaps for a barbecue and to socialize.


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Aero AT-3

As of 2008, some dozen aircraft are used in Poland, among others by the Polish Aero Club, several are used in the United Kingdom, among others by Brooklands Flying Club at Sywell Aerodrome and Old Sarum Flying School, France and some other countries.

Bodmin Airfield

In keeping with the original ideals and dreams of its creator, Mike Robertson, Cornwall Flying Club operates as a non-profit organisation, to keep costs down to the end user.

Cierva C.30

By the end of the decade private flyers were moving back to the comforts and economies of fixed-wing aircraft and more C.30s moved abroad, leaving the Autogiro Flying Club at London Air Park, Hanworth as the major UK user.

Iona National Airways

In 1955 Pearse Cahill, Hugh Cahill's son, recognised an opportunity in the Irish Aviation market (Ireland had no major flying club, and no major secondary airline).

Lambach HL.II

There were no Dutch aircraft competing in the North Dutch Flying Club's first international aerobatics competition held in Eelde in the spring of 1936; from a field of German and Dutch pilots, the best placed Dutchman cam second, flying a British Tiger Moth.

Miles Martinet

In 1949, MS902 was sold to the Akureyri Flying Club and given the Icelandic civil registration TF-SHC.

Taunton Municipal Airport

Various non-profit organizations and associations such as the Taunton Airport Association, the Brockton Flying Club, and the Civil Air Patrol.