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…


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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 – 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…




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…


April 2017 Site Development Update

Site Progress Following positive progress from the main contractor the National Centre will be open for business on the 8th of May (as opposed to the 1st as previously advertised) This slight delay is to…