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News

Helicentre Aviation Academy announce 15 scholarship winners

Yesterday, 15:22

Helicentre Aviation Academy has announced the winners of its 2018 Professional Helicopter Pilot Scholarship Programme

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CAA launch call for evidence on adoption of electronic conspicuity in the UK

Tue, 15:55

The widespread adoption of Electronic conspicuity (EC), where everything flying sends out an electronic signal identifying it, will be key in achieving safe and sustainable airspace for the UK in the future

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United Kingdom

Several threatened military airfields saved permanently or given temporary reprieve

Mon, 17:01

RAF Halton - Tiger Moth (c) Peter Dean, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

The announcement came after concerns about the speed and scale of airfield closures were raised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on General Aviation (APPG-GA) and defence ministers

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New York-Paris speed record set in a Daher TBM 930

Friday, March 15, 2019

Phil and Dierk arrival (c) AIRBORNE FILMS

Two TBM pilot-owners – Dierk Reuter and Phil Bozek – have set a new world speed record between New York and Paris aboard a TBM very fast turboprop aircraft

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Pilots visiting AeroExpo UK to receive free landing fee and entry

Friday, March 15, 2019

New for 2019, all landing fees are covered and sponsored by all AeroExpo UK exhibitors and event organisers

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UK CAA stops Boeing 737 MAX aircraft arriving, departing or overflying UK airspace

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Boeing 737-8 MAX (c) Stephen McParlin, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

The decision comes following an Ethiopian Airlines crash where 157 people died

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Army Flying Museum to reopen this April 1 following makeover

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The Army Flying Museum’s final countdown is officially on as it enters its last month ahead of launching in April

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Classifieds

Piper PA28RT-201T for sale | £115,000

Wed, 11:44

The aircraft is from 1980 and had an engine rebuild in April 2018

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1/5 share in Piper PA-24 Comanche available | £12,000

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The aircraft is in excellent order and is based at owner’s own airfield

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Vans RV-4 for sale | 1/8 share available

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The aircraft has always been hangared and is based in Gloucester

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Aircraft for sale at Imperial War Museum Duxford

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Aircraft for sale include a Piper Cherokee, Socata TB10, Cessna C177 and a Robin DR400/120B

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Pilot training and microlight share schemes available at Chiltern Airsports Centre

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

The training is available at Chiltern Park Aerodrome near Wallingford in Oxfordshire

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Events

Symbolic Jerusalem flight for peace taking place this April 2

Friday, March 15, 2019

On 2nd April sculptor and pilot, Mark Coreth will lead a flight of 10 light aeroplanes in two formations forming the shapes of swifts as they circle Jerusalem high above the ‘Tree of Hope’, Mark’s olive tree sculpture with its swirling bronze swifts

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Lecture on D-Day preparations from Army Flying Museum coming this March

Thursday, February 21, 2019

The innovation and wizardry which went into the D-Day landings will come under the spotlight at a special lecture at Stockbridge Town Hall in March

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What’s on at the newly established West Midlands Strut in 2019

Friday, February 15, 2019

Come and join like-minded pilots and aviation enthusiast in developing a new LAA strut in the West Midlands area

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50-year anniversary of first Concorde flight to be celebrated this March

Friday, February 8, 2019

Concorde (c) Jane Carnall, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

On the anniversary of the first flight of the Concorde on March 2, 1969, the Museum of Air and Space, in collaboration with the AAMA (Association of Friends of the Air Museum) and the APCOS (Association of Professionals of the Concorde and Supersonic), will hold a special event on March 2 and 3, 2019

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Flying adventure: A Dawn to Dusk salute to the RNLI

Friday, January 25, 2019

Highlighting the RNLI’s rescue role, one volunteer lifeboatman’s solo flying challenge results in a Pooleys Dawn to Dusk Competition triple win | By Ian Butter

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