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Welcome to our web-site.
We hope you find the information contained in this web-site useful and that you will come and join us at one of our events and become a member.
We look forward to seeing you there and always provide an opportunity for non-members to join the VAC at our events. Keep an eye on our calendar which is updated regularly. Anne Hughes (VAC Chair).
Aims of the club.
The aim of the Vintage Aircraft Club is to provide a focal body for owners, pilots and enthusiasts of vintage and classic light aircraft by arranging fly-ins and other events and publishing a magazine for the benefit of its members. If you would like to find out more about the history of the club, and the volunteers who run it, including our Chairman, Anne Hughes, visit the "About VAC" page.
The VAC looks forward to 2025
We have enjoyed all our 60th year celebratory events which have included visits to Derby airfield and Bericote, fly-ins to Breighton, Bodmin, Turweston and Old Warden and our Zoom programme of winter talks. Over the year we met up with members with long memories who could tell us about the earlier days of the VAC and we have shared memorabilia. We have also remembered those who set up the club in 1964 and are no longer with us.
Our members' aircraft have graced airfields throughout 2024, many pre-dating their owners by many years, and provided us with photo opportunities of a diversity of aircraft from the Optica to the Dragonfly, Piper Cubs, Tiger Moths, Beagle Pups, Austers and more.
We are now ready, with a busy calendar of events for 2025, to enjoy meeting up with members from far and wide and again enjoying the social atmosphere of the club. If you are reading this and are not already a VAC member we would invite you to join us and share your enthusiasm for vintage aircraft with us.
Anne Hughes VAC Chair
Optica and Vintage Line up at Old Warden © Lee Mullins.
VAC Taildragger Award Winner 2024.
The Vintage Aircraft Club are pleased to announce the awardee for the VAC Taildragger Scholarship 2024, in memory of VAC member Liz Inwood, was presented to Panayis Yiasimi at the VAC AGM at Old Warden on 26th October 2024.
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT CLUB'S PRESIDENT
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison KCB CBE is the Club's President and has been involved with the VAC over many years taking on the role to replace the late David Ogilvy OBE FRAeS. John, who has held a PPL since just after his 17th birthday, says he is honoured to have been invited to become the President of the VAC. Having trained as an RAF pilot and graduating from Cranwell in 1964 he won the prize for best pilot in his entry, and also the aerobatic trophy. His subsequent career took him from front line pilot, flying Lightnings, ultimately to be Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command. In parallel, he flew recreationally, notably as an air display pilot, which gave him access to many interesting cockpits. By the time he retired from flying earlier this year he had 116 distinct types, all flown as captain, in his logbook.
He has owned and operated a number of vintage aircraft, including an Auster, Luton Minor, Bucker Jungmann, Yak 50, Miles Gemini and a Beechcraft Bonanza. Both his sons, James and David, share his passion for flying.
Anne Hughes (VAC Chair)
Sir John Allison
General Data Protection Regulation.
The Club's GDPR statement can be found here!Membership:
Membership of the club costs just £25 per year. For your membership you get a copy of the magazine four times a year, discounted landing fees at our events and access to exclusive members only events.
Events
The club organises both Fly In events, and Non Fly In (access by ground travel only) events. Most of these are open to all who are interested in Vintage and Classic Aircraft, whether members of the club or not, but some events are exclusivley for members.
Magazine
The Journal of the Vintage Aircraft Club, called Vintage and Classic, is published four times per year. Some back issues are available in pdf format online here.
Facebook Page
The club also maintains a Facebook Page here.
