Buckminster Blog – August 2017
General It has been yet another busy month at the National Centre with a steady increase in day to day activity as well as regular event bookings at weekends. The season ticket holders are making…
Site Development
July Blog – 25/7/2017
General It continues to be fairly busy at the National Centre with an increasing number of regular flyers making use of the facilities as well as a good stream of first timers coming to take…
June Blog 21-6-2017
Events It has been a busy few weeks at the National Centre with the BARCS Radioglide event taking place over the late May Bank Holiday followed by the BMFA University and Schools Payload Challenge over…
Summer Airshow Postponed
We have taken the decision to postpone the summer Airshow set to take place over the weekend 29th/30th of July, this decision has not been taken lightly and has been based on a number of…
Buckminster Blog, Late May update 23/5/2017
Late May update Events Things have been getting busier at Buckminster and as well as a fair bit of flying from season ticket holders we have had a couple of events. Friday the 19th saw…
Buckminster Blog – 17/5/2017
Well we are at last benefiting from the required rain to get the runway seed started which is great news, of course on the downside it hasn’t really been flying weather so it has been…
Buckminster Blog Update – 13/5/2017
Buckminster Blog Update With so much going on at BMFA Buckminster I thought it worth adding another quick update on progress. Thursday the 11th saw the site closed for maintenance day and willing volunteers arrived…
First Achievement Scheme pass at BMFA Buckminster!
Congratulations to Chris Vincent who today became the first BMFA member to pass an Achievement Scheme test at the BMFA National Centre. Chris passed his Fixed Wing Power A test and is pictured receiving his…
Buckminster Blog May 8th Opening day
Buckminster Blog May 8th Opening day Just a quick update for opening day at the National Centre. We still have contractors on site tidying up the final elements of the building work but we opened…
May Update 4/5/2017
BMFA Buckminster May Blog The months have rolled by pretty quickly but it feels like we have made fairly spectacular progress since we took possession of the site in November and the main contractor commenced…