Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire
Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire
1929
- Guild founded.[1]
1933
Membership: 250
Any person who is a British subject by birth or by naturalisation is eligible for associate membership if he is the holder of a Class 'B' Aeroplane Pilot's Licence, or a 1st or 2nd Class Navigator's Certificate, or a 1st, 2nd or 3rd Class Airship Pilot's Certificate and who is either wholly or partly engaged in commercial aviation. Membership is confined to those members who have held the above qualifications for not less than five years. The object of the Guild is to promote the consideration and discussion of all questions affecting, and to protect by all proper legal methods, the interest of its members and the profession of commercial aviation. The Guild issues to those Instructors in flying who pass its tests, a certificate of competency to instruct. This certificate is recognised by the Air Ministry as entitling the holder to an Instructor;s endorsement on the 'B' Licence.
Clerk to the Guild: Lawrence A. Wingfield, M.C., D.F.C.
Address: 61 Cheapside, London E.C.2.
Telephone: Central 8668[2]
1949
Princess Elizabeth's first act as Grand Master was to instal Group Captain William Neville Cumming as Master of the Guild, in succession to the late Lord Londonderry. More than 1,500 pilots and navigators are members. [3]