Late Spring 2019

16/05/2019By AndyGeneral, Site Development

Its been a busy start to the season at BMFA Buckminster and the first few events have gone very well. The Jet Modellers Association Fly-in and AGM was well attended and the weather also co-operated, the two days saw around 50 jets on site with constant activity throughout each day, the usual high standard of … Read More

Spring 2019

14/03/2019By AndyGeneral, Site Development

Spring 2019 Despite the fact that it is still early in the year it has been a busy time at the National Centre. We have already hosted a considerable amount of flying and the calendar is filling up nicely for the coming year. Take a look at the National Centre website for details of forthcoming … Read More

Autumn 2018

07/11/2018By AndyGeneral, Site Development

Following on from the busy summer the activity continued into the Autumn with every weekend booked out to model flying events. As we moved into late summer the weather continued to smile on us with the majority of events benefitting from great flying conditions. Following the successful Retrofest weekend we accommodated an Achievement Scheme Fly-in … Read More

Summer 2018

24/07/2018By AndyGeneral, Site Development

Well, what a summer it is so far! After a rather shaky start weather wise we are currently experiencing something of a heatwave. In terms of flying weather, it has been fantastic and pretty much every event recently has benefitted from almost perfect conditions, we have had a sustained period of high pressure and north-easterly … Read More

Spring 2018 Update

13/05/2018By AndyGeneral, Site Development, Site Status

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that previous blogs have generally been designated by month, whereas this offering goes under the much vaguer title of spring, it’s been a busy start to the year hence the delay in producing the current update but there have been regular Facebook updates as well as the usual … Read More

December 2017 Blog

30/12/2017By AndyGeneral, Site Development

Site In order to produce the December2017 Blog I had a quick look back at the same month in 2016. Reading the update from 12 months ago really highlighted how much progress has been made at Buckminster and how much has changed in a relatively short space of time (it feels like the year has … Read More

September – October Blog

10/11/2017By AndySite Development

Buckminster Blog September/October We are overdue a Blog for the National Centre so this one is a snapshot for September and October. It has been a full on Autumn at BMFA Buckminster and it is pleasing how late into the year the facility is remaining busy. So, a quick overview of whats been going on … Read More

Buckminster Blog – August 2017

11/09/2017By AndyGeneral, Site Development

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 good use of the site and the facilities and we now have over 40 season tickets (against the first year … Read More