General aviation news

Government appoints General Aviation Champion

The UK Government has appointed a General Aviation Champion to help identify a network of UK aerodromes that are most important for non-scheduled flying to flourish. Former Police Detective and Conservative politician Byron Davies has been given the newly created role which was announced by Minister for Aviation, Baroness Sugg at Elstree airfield. [read more]

The Long EZ outside Horizons hangar at St Athan (Image: Nick Harding/Aviation Wales)
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Is General Aviation alive and well in Wales?

9am on a Saturday morning would normally see me sipping a coffee, maybe checking some emails and catching up with the worlds overnight events but today is different, today it finds me handing my passport over to the Military Police. The reason? I’ve been invited to spend some time with [read more]