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Flying Club Conington offer fixed-wing aircraft hire and training and bar/catering facilities. Aerolease Engineering offer aircraft engineering services. FlyCB permanently closed in 2016 it was a microlight Flying school offering training in the EV97 Team Eurostar high performance light aircraft style microlight.
A flying club or aero club is a not-for-profit, member-run organization that provides its members with affordable access to aircraft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many clubs also provide flight training , flight planning facilities, pilot supplies and associated services, as well as organizing social functions, fly-ins and fly-outs to other airports and so forth.
Bomber squadrons, 10, XV, 44, and 57 flying the English Electric Canberra were based at the station from 1955 to 1957 and 10 and XV Squadrons saw action in the Suez Crisis. [18] In 1956, RAF Honington also became a V bomber base: squadrons, Nos, 7, 90, and 199 flew Vickers Valiant while squadron Nos, 55 and 57 flew Handley Page Victors. [18]
The flying club was established in 1948 by three predecessor airlines of British Airways; British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA) as a means to provide private flying at an affordable rate for corporation staff.
Royal Air Force Coningsby or RAF Coningsby (IATA: QCY, ICAO: EGXC), is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 13.7 kilometres (8.5 mi) south-west of Horncastle, and 15.8 kilometres (9.8 mi) north-west of Boston, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
A B-17F Flying Fortress of the 750th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group. The airfield was first used by the 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy), arriving from Wendover AAF, Utah on 21 January 1944. The 457th was assigned to the 94th Combat Bombardment Wing of the 1st Bombardment Division. Its tail code was Triangle U.
Conington was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written Coninctune in the Domesday Book, [2] when there was just one manor at Conington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £9 and the rent was the same in 1086.
RAF Wittering's return to flying training was marked on 4 February 2015 with the arrival of Cambridge University Air Squadron and the University of London Air Squadron. [35] RAF Wittering is also the birthplace of the Royal Air Force Gliding & Soaring Association 's Four Counties Gliding Club.