Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club
The Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club is a flying club based at Bristol Airport, providing plane hire, flying instruction and a ground school for general aviation. The club is one of the United Kingdom's oldest; it was formed in 1927 and officially opened by the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, on 8 October of that year.Operations
The Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club operates from the Bristol Flying School building in the Silver Zone of Bristol Airport, where it has classrooms and a restaurant. Its fleet includes a Cessna 172S, a Cessna C182Q, two Piper PA-28-140s, a Piper PA-28-161 and a Piper PA-28R-200.
The Club provides gift flights, self-fly plane hire and flying training. They instruct for the Private Pilot Licence, NPPL, LAPL, the IMC Rating and Night Rating
-140 Cherokee Cruiser of the Bristol & Wessex Aeroplane Club lands at Bristol Airport, England. Built 1974.
