Equal Skies Charter
A consortium of aviation organisations, currently comprising Aerobility, CAA, NATS, Biggin Hill Airport, Bristow, 2Excel, Saxon Air and the University of West London, have launched a research project into disability employment within the aviation and aerospace industries. Operating under the label, Equal Skies Charter, the consortium is inviting aviation and aerospace organisations to complete a questionnaire to help better understand...
Air League’s ‘Generation Aviation Week’ underway
Generation Aviation Week, a five-day outreach initiative supported by the Department for Transport (DfT), is underway in the UK. Aiming to inspire the next generation of industry professionals, a week-long “sector-wide campaign” has started with a launch event at the Heathrow Employment and Skills Academy. The DfT’s May 2022 ‘Flightpath to the future’ stressed that “unleashing the potential of the next generation of aviation...
Blackbushe Airport seeking support for modernisation plan – consultation closes 16 Feb 2024
The operators of Blackbushe Airport are seeking support from the general aviation community in an application to deregister the ‘common land’ status of the area that the airport is located on in order to be permitted to update some of its infrastructure. According to the Surrey airport operators, since the 1960s the continued operation of Blackbushe Airport on an area of Yateley Common has presented challenges for the development and...
Youth in Aviation at the House of Lords
Organisations and individuals from across the UK aerospace industry came together at the House of Lords on 23rd November to highlight to politicians and industry stakeholders the social, economic and educational benefits of youth access to aviation, and the vital connection such activities have with the future prosperity of the British aerospace industry. In its role as the ‘aerospace network’, the Air League has sought to develop the...
Blackbushe is 75
Not looking a day over, well, 50 anyway, Blackbushe Airport to the west of London is celebrating its 75th birthday and to mark the occasion an anniversary festival is being held at the airfield on the 1st and 2nd July. Although virtually all airfields of any size have some sort of story to tell, Blackbushe has a particularly rich history and a more important place in the history of post-war civil aviation in the UK than many will...
