The Light Aircraft Association (LAA) has confirmed some of the expected highlights of this weekend’s LAA Rally at Sywell Aerodrome near Northampton.
Britain’s biggest ‘fly-in’ event, dedicated to ‘Flying for Fun’, will include:
- Up to 1,000 light sport aircraft of all shapes and sizes flying in over three days
- Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg will visit Rally on Friday 31 August, and will ‘pull a rivet’ with aircraft builder Patricia Mawuli Porter, to help in construction of a light aircraft (circa 13.00 hrs)
- Grant Shapps MP to speak to LAA members on the role of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on General Aviation
- Guinness world record attempt as visiting aircraft leave for home on Saturday afternoon. Aiming for more than 120 take-offs in a single hour
- Displays of aircraft include aircraft from earliest years of flying including WW1 types, as well up to six brand-new aircraft making their debuts
- Aircraft from Schools Build-A-Plane projects, and an area devote to Young People’s Aviation Art, encouraging younger visitors to draw their “Dreams of Flight” for an international competition.
Admission to the event costs £12 for non-LAA members. Parking is free.
The LAA has also published the schedule of speakers:
