Youth & Education Support

Working Together in Youth Aviation

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YES Flyers challenge –

“2,025 YES Flyers in 2025“

For 2025 we hope for better weather and we have a new target and challenge.

As of Thursday 16th January 2025 –

So please download the spreadsheet and send it to andre.faehndrich@gmail.com and the latest number will be posted in the box below.

2x Young Aviators flown so far

2024 Young Flyers in 24 – a short summary

In 2024, we had a challenge to fly 2,024 youngsters in 2024. Despite the bad weather in the first 6 months of 2024, we managed to log 1,870 youngsters at the following airfields;

Numbers Airfield Type
34 Audley End Scouts & Private
6 Bidford Upon Avon Private
62 Blackbushe Disabled flyers flying with Aerobility
153 Bodmin Private
43 Challock Private
1 Cranfield Private
67 Deenethorpe Scouts/Private
2 Dunkeswell Private
4 East Fortune Private
1 Edgehill Private
1 Fairoaks Private
1 Fenland Private
67 Fife/Perth School
1 Glenforsa Private
2 Goodwood Private
87 Gransden Lodge Scouts
2 Headcorn Private
1 Henstridge Private
2 High Easter Private
41 Hunsdon Private
1 Inverness Private
1 Kemble Gyrocopter
336 RAF Kenley RAF VGS (01/04/24 to date)
6 Lydd Disabled flyers flying with Aerobility
490 Manston Helicopters
3 Newport Private
354 Old Hay Scouts
2 Old Warden Tiger Moth
24 Prestwick Private
3 Rochester Private
57 Saltby Loughborough University Freshers
1 Sherburn Private
7 Sleap Private
4 Tatenhill Disabled flyers flying with Aerobility
2 Unknown Private
1 White Waltham Private

1,870* Total

* This total included 336 confirmed youngsters flown at RAF Kenley VGS (Volunteer Gliding Squadron), but we have seen figures for another 2,600 flown by the remaining RAF VGS’ but we could not include these, as we did not have the actual breakdown per VGS.

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We are a UK-wide group and the Youth Education branch of the Light Aircraft Association (LAA), working together with them, leading industry companies, local education authorities, schools and universities and many others to – educate, encourage and inspire young people to take part in all sorts of activities connected with aviation, through:

• Aircraft building projects (YES & other Build-a-Plane projects).
• Training in meteorology, navigation and airmanship.
• Exhibits and activities for young people at aviation shows.
• Arranging talks and practical activity sessions for schools and youth groups.
• Arranging aviation activity days for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, and Explorers, Girl Guides, and others.
• Production and demonstration of training equipment for navigation and radio communications.
• Maintaining an independent web-based aviation information centre for youngsters.
• Providing guidance on a future career in the varied world of aviation
• You can download a copy of our full profile and contacts points here YES Club Profile

You can support YES with every purchase you make through the Pooleys website. You’ll get a 5% discount off your orders.  Use the promotional code ‘YES‘ during the checkout stages.  Go to www.pooleys.com to select your items and save 5% and support YES

Just down load the membership form and send it to the YES Secretary and you will become part of the Youth Education branch of the LAA, delivering education, inspiration and most of all fun to the Youth of today.

Did you know that joining YES is not only a great idea, but it’s free!

Download YES Membership Form 0321 (“WORD” Format)

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