Leicester Airport to host 2024 LAA Rally
The Light Aircraft Association’s (LAA) annual Rally is due to return in 2024, taking place at Leicester Airport, a little over 40 years since it was last held at the midlands airport. Commenting on the Rally’s return, which had been limited to a ‘Grass Roots’ fly-in for the last couple of years, LAA CEO Simon Tilling said, “I am very pleased to announce that, following agreement with the airport management team yesterday, the 2024 LAA...
Armstrong/Isaacs Bursaries for PPL students opens for 2024
The Armstrong/Isaacs bursaries, run by the UK Light Aircraft Association (LAA), are once again open, with five bursaries of £1,500.00 on offer this year to PPL students currently undergoing flight training. Armstrong/Isaacs bursaries are funded from the Armstrong/Isaacs Fund, which is based on a major donation from David Armstrong, who was a founder member of the original Ultralight Aircraft Association in 1947, a lifelong member of...
Meet the LAA at AeroExpo 2023
The 2023 AeroExpo event – scheduled to be held over three days in June at Sywell aerodrome, Northamptonshire – will include a ‘Meet the LAA’ initiative as part of its programme. Established in 2005 but returning for the first time post-pandemic, AvBuyer’s AeroExpo UK – billed as ‘The UK’s festival of aviation’ – will be held from Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 June 2023. Incorporating an “unrivalled choice in the latest general aviation...
LAA seeks new Chief Executive Officer
The Light Aircraft Association (LAA) has opened applications for a new CEO to “lead the LAA into the future”. The vacancy comes following November’s announcement that the existing Chief Executive Officer, Steve Slater, will be stepping down from the role this coming Spring; ending a seven-year tenure with the “UK’s leading powered sports flying organisation”. With over 7,700 members “encompassing light aircraft owners, builders,...
Steve Slater stepping down from LAA
The Chief Executive Officer of the Light Aircraft Association (LAA), Steve Slater, has announced his intention to step down from the role in Spring 2023. This decision follows a period of over seven years in the post, during which Slater has “overseen a period of significant change in both the Association and the sport flying community”; a tenure which has seen him engaging with the organisation’s members, representing the sector at...
