aero associations ltd type limited company industry flying training founded january 1 1948 1948 01 01 headquarters wycombe air park booker buckinghamshire england united kingdom services gift flights jar ppl nppl night rating imc owner arora family trust website www.airwaysflyingclub.co.uk the airways flying club was formed in 1948 under the name of the airways aero club by employees of british european airways bea and british overseas airways corporation boac . the club is operated by airways aero associations ltd and flies out of wycombe air park . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . originally the club flew from denham hurn and whitchurch operating a fleet of miles magisters . during the early part of the 1950s the parent corporation s withdrew from whitchurch and hurn and as denham was too small for the club the flying base was transferred to croydon airport . as the decade continued the club operated pilot navigator and engineer training programmes for boac bea the air ministry and lufthansa and helped to set up the national flying training school at bremen as well as baghdad and kuwait flying schools . with the closure of croydon airport the club moved again first to white waltham airfield before moving to its present home at wycombe air park in 1965 . while under the ownership of bea and boac s successor british airways the club was known as the british airways flying club . in november 2007 the airline sold the club to the arora family trust 1 and it was renamed the airways flying club operated by airways aero associations limited . the club was merged with the company operating wycombe air park in january 2012 to form booker aviation a trading name of airways aero associations limited . operations edit piper dakota aircraft at wycombe air park the airways flying club operates from wycombe air park with a fleet of piper warrior piper dakota and de havilland chipmunk aircraft . the flying club acquired the long term lease to the airfield in 1965 following the closure of raf booker previously on the site . surinder arora the hotel entrepreneur purchased the lease to the airfield along with the flying club in 2007 . 2 references edit history of bafc . airways aero associations . archived from the original on 2008 03 11 . http www.flyer.co.uk news newsfeed.php artnum 657 external links edit official website v t e international airlines group operations divisions and subsidiaries iberia iberia cargo iberia express vueling british airways ba cityflyer british airways engineering british airways maintenance cardiff openskies aer lingus aer lingus regional iag cargo iberia cargo british airways world cargo franchisees air nostrum comair sun air destinations aer lingus air nostrum british airways franchise iberia history history of iberia history of british airways predecessors and acquisitions aviaco imperial airways british airways ltd 1935 1939 british european airways british midland international bmibaby british south american airways british overseas airways corporation british airways helicopters viva air former franchisees ba connect british airways ltd 2012 2015 british regional airlines brymon airways cityflyer express loganair maersk air uk incidents iberia ib062 ib401 madrid runway disaster 1973 nantes mid air collision ib602 ib610 british airways ba9 ba38 ba149 ba268 1976 zagreb mid air collision ba2276 ba5390 aer lingus ei712 ei164 others air nostrum bmi stockport air disaster kegworth air disaster comair people antonio v zquez romero willie walsh other airways flying club british airways ethnic liveries fleet oneworld speedbird list of airline holding companies heathrow terminal 5 waterside category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title airways flying club & oldid 742880008 categories flying clubs1948 establishments in the united kingdomflight trainingorganizations established in 1948 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 11 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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