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  2. Perth Airport (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Perth Airport remains Scotland's main airport for general aviation and is the base of the Scottish Aero Club, which was founded in 1927. The airport is home to flight training organisations providing private and commercial flight training, as well as micro light and autogyro training. Also on site is an aircraft maintenance company, ACS ...

  3. Scone Airport - Wikipedia

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    There are currently no airlines serving Scone. The airport is home to several businesses providing a range of services. These include: Scone Aero Club, a social club and Ultralight Flight Training Facility approved to conduct Recreational Aviation Australia instructor training [5] and which organised the Warbirds Over Scone series of airshows in 1998, 2001 and 2003; Pay's Air Charter and the ...

  4. Fife Airport - Wikipedia

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    Fife Airport (ICAO: EGPJ) is an unlicensed aerodrome located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The airport is owned by Fife Airport Ltd and operated by Flightplan Aviation Ltd. In 1998, it was voted the best airfield in the United Kingdom by Flyer magazine.

  5. Royal Aero Club - Wikipedia

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    The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls (one of the founders of Rolls-Royce), partly inspired by the Aero Club of France. It was initially concerned more with ballooning but after the demonstrations of heavier-than-air flight made by the Wright Brothers in France in 1908, it embraced ...

  6. List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal ...

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    He was awarded Royal Aero Club Special Certificate No. 7 for carrying out a series flights and aerial manoeuvres which were of special merit in the early years of aviation. [3] 43 Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett 7 January 1911 [1] (1884–1915). A Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon.

  7. Air sports - Wikipedia

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    Many air sports are regulated internationally by the Switzerland-based Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and nationally by aero clubs such as the National Aeronautics Association (NAA) [2] and the Royal Aero Club (RAeC). The FAI has separate commissions for each air sport.

  8. King's Cup (air race) - Wikipedia

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    Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association The King's Cup air race is a British handicapped cross-country event, which has taken place annually since 1922. It is run by the Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association.

  9. List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal ...

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    The Public Safety and Accident Investigation Committee of the Royal Aero Club found that the accident was "solely due to the steep and protracted descent of the aircraft followed by an attempt, due to inexperience, to flatten out too suddenly when descending at an excessive speed." [50] 609 Capt. L. E. O. Charlton, Lancashire Fusiliers