AMATEUR AVIATORS
INCREASE IN BRITAIN
’PLANES FOR DOMINIONS
.LONDON, July 3
A remarkable advance _in amateur flying is shown by the Air Ministry’s report for 1927. The membership o! thirteen light ’piano chibs was 2,190 last year, of whom 230 were licensed civic pilots and 136 licensed pilots. The number of club aircraft was double that of 19215, and private-owned aircraft totalled 110, compared' with 5S in 1926. The gro wing overseas demand for British" light 'planes lias necessitated riias? production. One firm is turning out a h) Ia no nearly every day. Briiish and foreign cross-Channel ’planes carried 28,764 passengers and goods valued at £2,691,600. Both are records for British ’planes, which have for the third year in succession flown without accident.
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Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 8
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123AMATEUR AVIATORS Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 8
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