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New Zealand pilot Jean Batten is one of the great names in aviation history. She obtained her pilot’s licence at the London Aeroplane Club in 1930 and later flew record-breaking solo flights [...]

In 2020, the BWPA awarded eleven scholarships to female pilots. They are now six months into their scholarship year; here is an update of how some of them are getting on.   Alison Field was [...]

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The BWPA Northwest Regional Group has now had three meetings and is rapidly gathering momentum. Regional coordinator Claire Hatton tells us more… “Our first meeting took place on Wednesday 12 [...]

Fiona and Angus Macaskill, both BWPA members, have just become world record holders. This week, Guinness have formally confirmed that on 7 July 2020, they landed at 71 airfields in 12 hours. Both [...]

The first meeting of the new Scottish Regional Group took place on Sunday 5 July and was a brilliant success. Run by Alison Field, who lives in Livingston in West Lothian, the inaugural meeting [...]

Dad got me interested in aviation through his love of gliding. I started flying myself in 1999, when I was 10, and spent most of my teenage years on the airfield. On my 16th birthday I flew solo [...]