Welcome

Welcome to the Royal Aero Club Trust Website. Since being established in 1998, the Trust has developed very rapidly. At present its prime focus is fund raising and the preparation of grant applications in pursuit of its objectives.

Those objectives include:

If you love air sport and recreation, there are a number of ways in which you could assist the trust in its tasks - these include Gift Aid Donations, Legacies and Covenants.

Website Updates - What's New

2010 Bursaries

Application Forms for 2010 Bursaries are available for download from the Bursaries Page

2009 bursary winners details have now been published on the site.

Annual Report

The 2008 annual report is now availble online new

Chocks Away as Early Royal Aero Club Flying Records Launch Online

‘Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates’ collection reveals the names and faces of Britain’s magnificent men (and women) and their flying machines

The Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950, now available online for the first time at leading social and family history website Ancestry.co.uk, contains over 28,000 records and 13,000 photographs of men and women who qualified as pilots in the golden age of British aviation, as powered flight went from science fiction to reality.

Read full press release picture of people watching air show

Work of the Royal Aero Club Trust

The RAeCT has been undertaking the huge job of conserving the Royal Aero Club Archives. To find out more about this work have a look at the following pages:

Research Subjects
Bev Snook Collection
RAC Collection Introduction
Pins and Needles...and Paperclips article, by Tony Newton
Frank Hedges Butler albums - Album volume 8 added

Publications

Tom Clarke's review of The Hon. C.S Rolls Albums. This was published in the Jan/Feb issue of the Flying Lady.

The in-house magazine of the BBAC - The British Balloon & Airship Club, Aerostat published an article in their June issue about the RAeCT.

View the Aerostat article

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