UK & IRELAND
APRIL
2 GASCo Safety Evening Bristol Flying
Club, Main Airport Roundabout, Old School
Approach, Bridgewater Road, Lulsgate,
Bristol. Tel: 01275 400126. Email: info@
bristolflying.co.uk
2 GASCo Safety Evening RAF Brize Norton
Flying Club,The Millenium Centre, Stanmore
Crescent, Carterton, Oxfordshire. Tel: 07917- Email: [email protected]
4 Sywell Aviation Museum Grand Opening
Sywell, Northamptonshire. sywellaerodrome.
co.uk/events.php
4 Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
Cockpit Day East Kirkby, Lincolnshire.
lincsaviation.co.uk
4-5 British Aerobatic Association Dan
Smith Memorial Trophy Competition
London Gliding Club, Dunstable,
Bedfordshire. aerobatics.org.uk/
events-info.htm
5 Vintage Sunday Fly-In Old Sarum,
Wiltshire. PPR essential. Free landings for
pre-1955 aircraft. Classic and vintage types,
cars and motorcycles welcome.
Tel: 01722 322525. oldsarumairfield.co.uk
5 Classic Car Rally and Autojumble Old
Warden, Bedfordshire. PPR essential.
Tel: 01767 627927. shuttleworth.org
5 Homebuilt Aircraft Fly-In Breighton,
North Yorkshire. realaero.com
5-6 Easter Wings, Wheels Wolverhampton-
Halfpenny Green Airport.
wolverhamptonairport.co.uk/events-2/
8 Why a Spartan 7W Executive? London
Society of Air-Britain lecture by Spartan
owner and pilot Nigel Pickard. Victory
Services Club, 63-79 Seymour Street,
London W2. Doors open 7pm. Email: james.
[email protected] air-britain.com
8 GASCo Safety Evening Mercure Hotel,
Watford, Hertfordshire. Tel: 01634 200203.
Email: [email protected].
co.uk
9-10 Vintage Aircraft Fly-In Stow Maries
Aerodrome, Essex. fosma.co.uk
10 GASCo Safety Evening Staplehurst
Village Hall, North Hall, High Street
Staplehurst, Kent. (For Lashenden-Headcorn
pilots.) Tel: 1622 891539. Email: lizhollands@
hotmail.com
10-12 Spring Microfest & Footlanch Event
Northrepps, Cromer, Norfolk. Tel: 07886
264992 or 07771 800406. flycromer.com
11 Rolling Thunder Day Yorkshire Air
Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire.
yorkshireairmuseum.org
11-12 British Air Racing Association
Weekend Leicester. britishairracing.com
11-12 British Aerobatic Association John
McClean Trophy Competition Breighton,
North Yorkshire. aerobatics.org.uk/events-
info.htm
12 Light Aircraft Association Wessex
Strut Fly-In Henstridge, Somerset.
wessexstrut.org.uk
12 Shropshire Scale Model Show RAF
Museum, Cosford, Shropshire.
Tel: 01902 376200. rafmuseum.org
15 Fifty-five Years of Flying for Fun
Cornwall Flying Club talk by former test pilot
Clive Rustin. Starts 6pm.
bodminairfield.co.uk
18 Light Aircraft Association Devon Strut
Fly-In Roserrow, Polzeath, Cornwall. Tel:
01208 864603. thepointatpolzeath.co.uk/
index.php/air-field
18 Light Aviation Association and Youth
Education and Support 8th Annual
Aviation Education Conference Vickers
Suite, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge,
Surrey. Registration essential by 2 April at:
eventbrite.co.uk/event/15401162291/
18 UK National Evektor Eurostar Fly-In
Sywell, Northamptonshire.
Email: [email protected]
18 Vintage Aircraft Club Daffodil Rally,
Spotters’ Day and Public Open Day
Fenland, Lincolnshire. Tel: 01406 540330.
fenlandairfield.co.uk
vintageaircraftclub.org.uk
19 LGW 2015 26th Gatwick International
Aircraft Enthusiasts’ Fair K2 Crawley,
Pease Pottage Hill, West Sussex.
gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk/lgw2014.asp
19 Wings & Wheels Old Buckenham,
Norfolk. oldbuck.com
23 The Royal Navy and the Battle of
Britain Friends of the Fleet Air Arm
Museum Lecture by Kim Sharman. FAAM
Auditorium, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.
Starts 7.30pm. fleetairarm.com/events
25 Feet Off Ground (FOG) Flying Day for
Youngsters from Little Harbour Children’s
Hospice Bodmin, Cornwall. Visitors welcome.
bodminairfield.co.uk
24-26 British Aerobatic Association
Nathaniel Alony, Cavendish and Roy Legg
Trophies Competitions Elvington, Yorkshire.
aerobatics.org.uk/events-info.htm
25 British Women Pilots’ Association
Fly-In Welshpool. bwpa.co.uk/events
28 GASCo Safety Evening Douglas Old
Friends Association, Victoria Hall, Finch
Road, Douglas, Isle of Man. Tel: 07624- Email: [email protected]
30 GASCo Safety Evening The Forum,
Building 83, Cranfield University School of
Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing,
Cranfield University, Bedfordshire. Tel: 0772
961 1899. Email: [email protected]MAY
TBA The de Havilland Moth Club 2015
Moth Flying Forum Camp Theatre, RAF
Henlow, Buckinghamshire. dhmothclub.co.uk
2 Rockwell OV-10 Bronco Fan Day
Cotswold-Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire.
broncodemoteam.com
2 Lincolnshire Aviation Museum Large
Model Airshow East Kirkby, Lincolnshire.
lincsaviation.co.uk
2-3 Bonjour Bodmin Deux ‘Everything
French’ Fly/Drive-In Bodmin, Cornwall.
Other types welcome. PPR essential.
bodminairfield.co.uk4 Aero/Autojumble & Classic Vehicle Rally
and Fly-In Popham, Hampshire.
popham-airfield.co.uk
2-3 Atomic Mid-Century Vintage Festival
Sywell, Northamptonshire. atomicfestival.co.
uk or sywellaerodrome.co.uk/events
2-3 Rotary Fly-In Northrepps, Cromer,
Norfolk. Helicopters and gyrocopters
welcome. Tel: 07886 264992 or 07771- flycromer.com
2-4 Vintage Aircraft Club Yorkshire Tour
Sherburn, Breighton and Elvington.
vintageaircraftclub.org.uk
3 Vintage Sunday Fly-In Old Sarum, Wilts.
PPR essential. Free for pre-1955 aircraft.
Classic and vintage cars and motorcycles.
Tel: 01722 322525. oldsarumairfield.co.uk
3 Abingdon Air & Country Show Abingdon
Airfield (Dalton Barracks), Oxfordshire.
abingdonfayre.com
3 The Shuttleworth Collection Premier
Airshow Commemorating VE-Day Old
Warden, Bedfordshire. PPR essential.
Tel: 01767 627927. shuttleworth.org
3 Seething Tower Museum Open Day,
Fly-in & BBQ Seething, Norfolk. Tel: 01508 - seething-airfield.com
3-4 Auster Fly-In Breighton, North
Yorkshire. realaero.com
9 Royal Institute of Navigation TopNav
Competitions Bodmin, White Waltham and
Sherburn-in-Elmet. Weather date 16 May.
rin.org.uk/Events/3812/TopNav-2015
9-10 British Aerobatic Association
Golding-Barrett Trophy Competition Sleap,
Shropshire. aerobatics.org.uk/events-info.htm
9-10 Battlegroup North Yorks Air Museum,
Elvington, Yorks. yorkshireairmuseum.org
Calendar
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Remember to check with the organiser before setting out – events may be changed at short notice88 | Pilot April 2015 http://www.pilotweb.aero
Above: A French visitor that won’t be saying
Bonjour! at Bodmin on 2-3 May. This zany Citroen
2CV ‘flying car’, lives in a Californian museum