List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1911
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The Royal Aero Club
issued Aviators Certificates from 1910.
These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Legend
Individual was killed in an aviation accident.
Individual was killed flying in military action.
Royal Aero Club
The Royal Aero Club is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom.The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls , partly inspired by the Aero Club of France...
issued Aviators Certificates from 1910.
These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records. Its head office is in Lausanne, Switzerland. This includes man-carrying aerospace vehicles from balloons to spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles...
List
| Aviator's Certificates awarded | ||||
| in 1910 (1–38) |
in 1911 (39–168) |
in 1912 (169–382) |
in 1913 (383–719) |
in 1914 (720–1032) |
Legend
Individual was killed in an aviation accident.
Individual was killed flying in military action.
| No. | |Name | |Date | |Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | Bethell Godefroy Bouwens | 7 January 1911 | Author of several books on the subject of genealogy Genealogy Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members... . |
| 40 | Lt. Lieutenant A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank... George Bayard Hynes RGA Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery was an arm of the Royal Artillery that was originally tasked with manning the guns of the British Empire's forts and fortresses, including coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division, and the guns of the siege... |
7 January 1911 | Awarded the DSO Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September... during service with the Royal Flying Corps during the first world war, retired as a Royal Air Force Group Captain in 1931 and became the deputy director of aeronautical inspection in the Air Ministry. |
| 41 | St. Croix Johnstone | 7 January 1911 | Killed 16 August 1911 when his Moisant monoplane crashed into Lake Michigan while he was taking part in the 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet The 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet was major aviation show held at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States in August 1911., 362-63 Lincoln Beachey set a world altitude record of 11,642 feet at the meet.... . |
| 42 | Henry Cook Henry Cook Brigadier-General Henry R Cook was an early British aviator and an officer in the Royal Artillery during World War I.-Early military career:... |
7 January 1911 | He was awarded Royal Aero Club Special Certificate No. 7 for carrying out a series flights and aerial maneouvres which were of special merit in the early years of aviation. |
| 43 | Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett | 7 January 1911 | A Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards Grenadier Guards The Grenadier Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to the Life Guards... , he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. He "was seconded to the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers Air Battalion Royal Engineers The Air Battalion Royal Engineers was the first flying unit of the British Armed Forces to make use of heavier-than-air craft. It evolved into the Royal Flying Corps which in turn evolved into the Royal Air Force.-Establishment:... , the forerunner of the Royal Flying Corps, which came into being in April, 1912. He went to France with the R.F.C. in 1914, but in 1915 he returned to his regiment and was killed in action at Festubert" (France) on 18 May 1915 and is buried at Le Touret Military Cemetery. |
| 44 | Paul Georges Leon Jezzi | 7 January 1911 | Aircraft designer; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators |
| 45 | Lt. Reginald Archibald Cammell, R.E. | 7 January 1911 | He died 17 September 1911 when he crashed in a ASL Valkyrie which had been recently been given to the Army. He was one of only 3 Officers in the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers who qualified in all forms of aircraft: Balloons (Airship Certificate No. 1), man-lifting kites and aeroplanes. |
| 46 | Oscar Colin Morison | 17 January 1911 | An engineer, he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Brooklands. Died in 1965. |
| 47 | James Valentine | 17 January 1911 | Used a Macfie Biplane at Brooklands: Valentine died following an operation as a Lt.-Col. in the Royal Flying Corps on 7 August 1917 at Kieff in Russia (Now Kiev in Ukraine). One of only four airmen who completed the 1911 Circuit of Britain and the only British aviator to complete the whole course of the European circuit. For these achievements he was awarded the Silver Medal of the R.Ae.C. in 1912 Valentine was awarded the second R.Ae.C. Special certificate on 6 December 1911; |
| 48 | Henry J. Delaval Astley | 24 January 1911 | Died flying a Blériot in an exhibition Flight in Belfast on 21 September 1912 |
| 49 | Robert Francis Macfie | 24 January 1911 | Aircraft designer and constructor (e.g. the Macfie Monoplane Macfie Monoplane The Macfie Monoplane was a British shoulder wing, tractor monoplane. The aircraft was powered by a 35 hp J.A.P. V8 engine fixed at the front of an open-frame 'fuselage', at the rear end of which a tailplane and vertical rudder were mounted.... ); sometimes credited with the invention of the 'tank Tank A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility, tactical offensive, and defensive capabilities... ' (i.e. the armoured vehicle with caterpillar tracks); he was a member of the British Landships Committee Landships Committee The Landships Committee was a small British war cabinet committee established in February 1915 to deal with the design and construction of what would turn out to be tanks during the First World War... . |
| 50 | Cecil Howard Pixton Howard Pixton Sopwith test pilot C Howard Pixton won the 1914 Schneider Trophy air race held in Monacoflying a Sopwith Tabloid seaplane powered by a 100 hp Gnome 9V rotary engine, completing the race at an average speed of 86.83 miles per hour. The trophy was then moved to the British Royal Aero... |
24 January 1911 | Winner of the 1914 Schneider Trophy Schneider Trophy The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider was a prize competition for seaplanes. Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of roughly £1,000. The race was held eleven times between 1913 and 1931... in a Sopwith Tabloid Sopwith Tabloid |-See also:-References:* Bruce, J.M. "". Flight. 8 November 1957. pp. 733–736.* Bruce, J.M. "". Flight. 15 November 1957. pp. 765–766.* Bruce, J.M. "". Flight. 29 November 1957. pp. 845–848.... floatplane Floatplane A floatplane is a type of seaplane, with slender pontoons mounted under the fuselage; only the floats of a floatplane normally come into contact with water, with the fuselage remaining above water... ; founder of the AVRO flying school at Brooklands Brooklands Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields... . |
| 51 | Herbert John Thomas | 24 January 1911 | Born 1892, he was at the time the youngest pilot to have been awarded the Aviator's Certificate. He was a founding member of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, formed 1910, and stayed with the company under its various names until his death following surgery in 1947, at which time he was assistant managing director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company Bristol Aeroplane Company The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aero engines... . He had also served as chairman and council member of the SBAC. |
| 52 | Sir Ellis "Victor" Sassoon Victor Sassoon Sir Ellice "Victor" Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE was a businessman and hotelier from the Sassoon banking family. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father Edward Elias Sassoon in 1924... (announced under the name E."Smith") |
24 January 1911 | 3rd (and last) Baronet Sassoon |
| 53 | Geoffrey de Havilland Geoffrey de Havilland Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer... |
7 February 1911 | Aviation pioneer, designer, founder of de Havilland Aircraft Company; he received the R.Ae.C. Special Certiciate no. 4 on 9 Jan. 1912. |
| 54 | Captain Daniel Goodwin Conner RFC | 7 February 1911 | Capt. Conner was a flight commander in No. 5 Squadron RFC No. 5 Squadron RAF No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is the operator of the new Sentinel R1 Airborne STand-Off Radar aircraft and is based at RAF Waddington.-History:As No... and later, as temporary Major, squadrom commander. A photograph of Lt. Conner appeared in Flight Magazine's "Aviation Pioneers" series in its issue dated 4 March 1911. |
| 55 | James Vernon Martin | 7 February 1911 | Martin was an American citizen and inventor, who took out many aeronautical patents, including an "automatic stabilizer (1916) and retractable landing gear (1916)". |
| 56 | Arthur Haynes Aitken | 14 February 1911 | Flight Roll of Honour: Reported missing on 11 November 1918: Aitken, Sec. Lieut. A.H. |
| 57 | Charles L A Hubert | 14 February 1911 | - |
| 58 | George Henry Challenger | 14 February 1911 | Elected "Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society Royal Aeronautical Society The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.-Function:... " in 1913, chief designer and engineer in the aviation department of Vickers Vickers Limited Vickers Limited was a famous British engineering conglomerate that merged into Vickers-Armstrongs in 1927.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &... ; formerly chief engineer at the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, and previously employed as an engineer by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co. Challenger was the author and co-author of numerous patents, including those for a ring mounting and the Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear, both for for machine-guns. |
| 59 | George Richard Sutton Darroch | 14 February 1911 | b. London 22 Feb. 1880, d. 3 Dec. 1959; went to Eton College Eton College Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor".... ; was an apprentice at the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) in Crewe Crewe Crewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683... ; fought in World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918... , being awarded the Croix de Guerre Croix de guerre The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was awarded during World War I, again in World War II, and in other conflicts... ; returned to work in Crewe, eventually becoming Assistant Works Manager with the LNWR and its successor, the London Midland & Scottish Railway; retired in 1941. During his first employment in Crewe he designed and supervised the construction of the "Orion", a one-sixth scale model Webb Francis Webb (engineer) Francis William Webb was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway .- Biography :... Compound locomotive now maintained and operated by the Stephenson Locomotive Society Stephenson Locomotive Society The Stephenson Locomotive Society was founded in the UK in Autumn 1909 for the study of rail transport and locomotives.It was originally named The Stephenson Society in honour of George Stephenson. In late 1911 the professional engineers seceded from the Society to form the Junior Institution of... . |
| 60 | Archibald Knight | 14 February 1911 | at Bristol Flying School, Brooklands; instructor at the Vickers Flying School; joined the RFC in 1914; recalled to join Maxwell Muller in managing the Vickers Vickers Limited Vickers Limited was a famous British engineering conglomerate that merged into Vickers-Armstrongs in 1927.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &... works at Weybridge as works manager until his retirement 1936; returned in 1939 to manage Wellington Vickers Wellington The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs' Chief Designer, R. K. Pierson. It was widely used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, before being displaced as a... and Warwick Vickers Warwick The Vickers Warwick was a multi-purpose British aircraft used during the Second World War. Built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands, Surrey, the Warwick was used by the Royal Air Force as a transport, air-sea rescue and maritime reconnaissance platform, and by the civilian British Overseas... repair. |
| 61 | Collyns Price Pizey | 14 February 1911 | Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Died of dysentry in Greece 11 June 1915, he was a Flt. Lt. in the Royal Naval Air Service working for the British Naval Mission to Greece. |
| 62 | Louis Maron | 14 February 1911 | A French aviator who used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. |
| 63 | William Hugh Ewen | 14 February 1911 | Scottish aviator who used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. Performed the first flight across the Firth of Forth in 1911. At the end of 1911, he contacted the Caudron Brothers at Rue and his company, W.H.Ewen Aviation Co Ltd, Hendon, became the registered agent for the construction and sale of Caudron aeroplanes in the British Empire. Founded the Ewen Flying School at Hendon Hendon Hendon is a London suburb situated northwest of Charing Cross.-History:Hendon was historically a civil parish in the county of Middlesex. The manor is described in Domesday , but the name, 'Hendun' meaning 'at the highest hill', is earlier... in 1912. Served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Major, resigning his commission due to ill health in 1918.. He died in 1947. Ewen was also an organist and conductor (he composed the Zephyr Waltz), and appeared in the 1913 aviation film "Through the Clouds". |
| 64 | Gustav Hamel Gustav Hamel Gustav Hamel was a pioneer British aviator.Hamel was prominent in the early history of aviation in Britain, and in particular that of Hendon airfield, where Claude Graham-White was energetically developing and promoting flying.-Biography:Gustav Hamel was educated at Westminster School and chose to... |
14 February 1911 | Holder of the French aviator's certiticate no. 358; he disappeared over the English Channel English Channel The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover... on 23 May 1914 while returning from Paris in a new 80 hp Morane-Saulnier Morane-Saulnier Aéroplanes Morane-Saulnier is a French aircraft manufacturing company formed in October 1911 by Raymond Saulnier and the Morane brothers, Leon and Robert... monoplane he had just collected. At this time of high international tension, there was speculation that he might have been the victim of sabotage, but no trace was ever found and the story faded with his memory. |
| 65 | Quinto Poggioli | 28 February 1911 | Italian aviator used a Bleriot Monoplane at the New Forest Aviation School, Beaulieu. |
| 66 | Lewis William Francis Turner | 4 April 1911 | Used a Farman Biplane at Hendon. Served with the Royal Flying Corps during the first world war. |
| 67 | W. R. Prentice | 25 April 1911 | - |
| 68 | Eric C. Gordon England Eric Gordon England Eric Cecil Gordon England was a British aviator, racing driver and engineer. E.C. Gordon England was one of the early pioneers of gliding, and his glider flight in 1909 is considered to be the birth of the sport of soaring.... |
25 April 1911 | One of the early pioneers of gliding |
| 69 | Henry R. Fleming | 25 April 1911 | - |
| 70 | Charles Cyril Turner | 25 April 1911 | Author of "The Old Flying Days" |
| 71 | Lt. Charles Rumney Samson Charles Rumney Samson Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC was a British naval aviation pioneer. He also operated the first British armoured vehicles in combat... , R.N. Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service... |
25 April 1911 | Samson was the first pilot to take off from a moving ship, and was instrumental in the development of aerial wireless communications, bomb- and torpedo-dropping, navigational techniques and night flying. |
| 72 | Lt. Arthur M. Longmore Arthur Longmore Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore GCB, DSO was an early naval aviator, before reaching high rank in the Royal Air Force.-Biography:... , R.N. |
25 April 1911 | Later Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore RAF Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world... ; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators |
| 73 | Lt. Wilfred Parke Wilfred Parke Lieutenant Wilfred Parke RN was a British airman and became the first aviator to recover from an accidental spin.-Family:Parkes's father was Alfred Watlington Parke, the Rector of Uplyme and his mother was Hilda Fort... , R.N. |
25 April 1911 | Known for the 'Parke Dive' spin-recovery on 25 August 1912; crashed and died near Wembley 15 December 1912 with Mr Arkell Hardwick of Handley Page. |
| 74 | Francis Conway Jenkins CBE CBE CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering... |
2 May 1911 | b. 1888, d. 1933; raced cars at Brooklands; took part in the Circuit of Britain Air Race; rose from 2nd. Lt. to Brigadier-General (RAF), Director of Parks and Depots, Air Ministry; he resigned his commission and became a director of The British Motor Trading Corporation (founded 1919); |
| 75 | Lt. Reginald Gregory, R.N. | 2 May 1911 | Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators |
| 76 | Lt. Eugene Louis Gerrard Eugene Gerrard Air Commodore Eugene Louis Gerrard CMG, DSO, RAF was an officer in the Royal Marines and Royal Air Force.... , R.M.L.I Royal Marines The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines , are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service... |
2 May 1911 | Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators |
| 77 | Edward Victor Beauchamp Fisher | 2 May 1911 | On 13 May 1912 Fisher was piloting a Green Green Engine Co The Green Engine Co was an early British aero engine manufacturer. It was founded by Gustavus Green in Bexhill to produce engines of his design during the first two decades of the 20th century. Actual manufacturing was carried out at the Aster Engineering Company of Wembley... powered Flanders monoplane Flanders F.2 |-References:* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft , 1985, Orbis Publishing-See also:... with an American passenger Mr. Mason when it crashed at Brooklands killing them both. |
| 78 | Hubert Oxley | 9 May 1911 | Chief Flying Instructor at Filey Filey Filey is a small town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the borough of Scarborough and is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it started out as a fishing village, it has a large beach and is a popular tourist resort... , Yorkshire; died 6 December 1911, together with his passenger, Mr. Weiss: during a steep dive in a Blackburn Mercury Blackburn Mercury -References:* *... , fabric tore off the wings and the plane crashed, killing both Oxley and Weiss. |
| 79 | Harold Blackburn | 9 May 1911 | - |
| 80 | Ronald C. Kemp | 9 May 1911 | Test pilot Test pilot A test pilot is an aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques or FTTs, allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated.... for Short Brothers Short Brothers Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s... ; was injured (and his passenger Mr. Ewart Temple Haynes killed) in a crash at Brooklands Brooklands Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields... on 23 February 1914. |
| 81 | R. W. Philpott | 9 May 1911 | - |
| 82 | W. H. Dolphin | 9 May 1911 | - |
| 83 | C. H. Marks | 9 May 1911 | - |
| 84 | Capt. Seaton Dunham Massy | 9 May 1911 | - |
| 85 | F. P. Raynham F. P. Raynham Frederick Phillips Raynham was a British pilot from the early days of aviation, gaining his aviator's certificate in 1911. He test-flew Avro, Martinsyde, Sopwith and Hawker aircraft before and after first World War. He later formed the Aircraft Survey Co... |
9 May 1911 | 1893-1960 |
| 86 | James L. Travers, Jr. | 16 May 1911 | Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators. 'Jack' Travers was a draughtsman Draughtsman A draughtsman or draftsman , is a person skilled in drawing, either:*drawing for artistic purposes, or*technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering... at Short Brothers Short Brothers Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s... and later also an flying instructor at Eastchurch. |
| 87 | Edward Hotchkiss | 16 May 1911 | Killed on 10 September 1912, together with his passenger, Lt. C. A. Bettington (granted his Aviator’s certificate, No. 256, on 24 July 1912) when his Bristol Monoplane crashed due to the failure of a quick release cable fitment, which caused the fabric of the starboard wing to fail. |
| 88 | T. C. R. Higgins | 16 May 1911 | Commanded the RFC's Home Defence Brigade during World War I, retired as an air commodore in 1929. |
| 89 | Lt. W. D. Beatty, R.E. | 30 May 1911 | - |
| 90 | Lt. R. B. Davies, R.N. | 30 May 1911 | - |
| 91 | Bentfield Charles Hucks | 30 May 1911 | Test flights at Filey, Yorkshire using a Blackburn monoplane. Died from pneumonia 6 November 1918. Was a Captain in the Royal Air Force when he died, the first Englishman to loop and fly upside down. |
| 92 | Captain Herbert Ramsay Playford Reynolds RE Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.... |
6 June 1911 | Royal Flying Corps, test flights at Salisbury Plain using a Bristol Biplane. |
| 93 | Thomas Henry Sebag-Montefiore | 13 June 1911 | - |
| 94 | H. R. Busteed | 13 June 1911 | - |
| 95 | Frederick Sykes Frederick Sykes Air Vice-Marshal The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes GCSI, GCIE, GBE, KCB, CMG was a military officer, British statesman and politician.... |
20 June 1911 | Senior RFC commander and second Chief of the Air Staff. |
| 96 | G. Higginbotham | 27 June 1911 | - |
| 97 | Herbert Stanley-Adams | 27 June 1911 | - |
| 98 | Lt. J. W. Pepper R.A. | 27 June 1911 | - |
| 99 | Henry Salmet | 27 June 1911 | - |
| 100 | Charles Gordon Bell | 4 July 1911 | First professional test pilot (at Short Brothers Short Brothers Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s... ); having been invalided out of military service in World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918... , Bell died Monday, 29 July 1918, test flying for Vickers Ltd Vickers Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &... . |
| 101 | Charles Reginald Abbott | 4 July 1911 | - |
| 102 | William Miller Hilliard | 4 July 1911 | - |
| 103 | William Darnley Johnstone | 4 July 1911 | - |
| 104 | Gerald Francis Napier | 18 July 1911 | Awarded after a flight at Brooklands in a Bristol Biplane. On 1 August 1911 he lost control during a flight at Brooklands and was killed (he was only 19), his passenger was thrown clear and survived. |
| 105 | Lt. T. Gerard Hetherington | 18 July 1911 | 1886–1951, became one of the first members of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and retired in 1935 as a Group Captain. |
| 106 | Cecil Lawrence Pashley Cecil Pashley Cecil Lawrence Pashley MBE AFC was a British aviation pioneer.Pashley was born in the Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 14 May 1891. He learned to fly in 1908 and, with his brother Eric, started flight training at Shoreham Airport in 1913 when they founded the South Coast Flying club. One of Pashley's... |
18 July 1911 | - |
| 107 | H. De Grey Warter | 18 July 1911 | - |
| 108 | Capt. C. Robert Brooke-Popham Robert Brooke-Popham Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During World War I he served in the Royal Flying Corps as wing commander and senior staff officer... |
18 July 1911 | - |
| 109 | Harry Bingham Brown | 1 August 1911 | - |
| 110 | Evelyn Frederick Driver | 1 August 1911 | South African born aviator used a Farman Biplane at Hendon for certicate flights. |
| 111 | Norman Scott Percival | 1 August 1911 | - |
| 112 | Walter Oswald Watt | 1 August 1911 | - |
| 113 | Walter Lawrence | 1 August 1911 | - |
| 114 | George Miller Dyott George Miller Dyott George Miller Dyott was an American pioneer aviator and explorer of the Amazon.-Biography:Dyott was born in New York to a British father and American mother. He test piloted planes not long after the Wright brothers, and was one of the first pilots ever to fly at night... |
17 August 1911 | - |
| 115 | Lt. Col. C. O. Smeaton | 17 August 1911 | - |
| 116 | Louis Noel | 17 August 1911 | - |
| 117 | Lt. Spenser Douglas Adair Grey, R.N. | 17 August 1911 | Used a Farman biplane at Brooklands. Served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the first world war being awarded the Distinguished Service Order Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September... and the American Distinguished Service Medal Distinguished Service Medal (United States) The Distinguished Service Medal is the highest non-valorous military and civilian decoration of the United States military which is issued for exceptionally meritorious service to the government of the United States in either a senior government service position or as a senior officer of the United... . Left with the rank of Lt Col. He died in 1937 when he fell of the roof of his flat in London. |
| 118 | Brig. Gen. Colonel D Henderson C.B. Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath... , D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September... |
17 August 1911 | - |
| 119 | Theodore John Ridge | 17 August 1911 | Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory - killed 18 August 1911 in crash of Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1 The S.E.1 was an experimental aircraft built at the Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough in 1911... . |
| 120 | Carl Olaf Dahlbeck | 29 August 1911 | Swedish aviator used a Farman Biplane at Hendon. |
| 121 | Lt. L.V. Stewart Blacker Stewart Blacker Lieutenant-Colonel Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker OBE was a British Army officer and inventor of weapons.He invented the Blacker Bombard, laid the basis of the PIAT - both based on the spigot mortar - and the Ayre Petard... |
29 August 1911 | - |
| 122 | Mrs. Hilda Beatrice Hewlett Hilda Hewlett Hilda Beatrice Hewlett was the first British aviatrix to earn a pilot's licence. She was also a successful early aviation entrepreneur. She created and ran the first flying school in the United Kingdom. She also created and managed a successful aircraft manufacturing business which produced more... |
29 August 1911 | The first British woman to receive a pilot's certificate |
| 123 | Walter C. England | 29 August 1911 | - |
| 124 | Herbert Spencer | 29 August 1911 | - |
| 125 | Capt. Captain D Le Geyt Pitcher Duncan Pitcher Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF was an infantry and cavalry officer in the British Indian Army... |
29 August 1911 | - |
| 126 | Capt. C. G. Hoare | 29 August 1911 | - |
| 127 | Lt. Robert Hamilton Clark-Hall Robert Clark-Hall Air Marshal Sir Robert Hamilton Clark-Hall KBE CMG DSO RAF was a squadron and wing commander in the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I and a senior Royal Air Force commander in the 1920s and early 1930s... , R.N. |
29 August 1911 | Later Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall RAF Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world... (and Air Commodore RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force The Royal New Zealand Air Force is the air arm of the New Zealand Defence Force... 1943-45) |
| 128 | Henry Aloysius Petre Henry Petre Henry Aloysius Petre DSO, MC was an English solicitor who became Australia's first military aviator, and a founding member of the Australian Flying Corps, predecessor of the Royal Australian Air Force... |
12 September 1911 | Henry Aloysius Petre DSO, MC, was an English solicitor who became Australia's first military aviator, and a founding member of the Australian Flying Corps, predecessor of the Royal Australian Air Force. |
| 129 | William E. Gibson | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 130 | E W Copland Perry Evelyn Copland Perry Evelyn Walter Copland Perry was a pioneer British aviator and one of the first flying instructors in England... |
12 September 1911 | - |
| 131 | Eric Harrison | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 132 | Samuel Pepys Cockerell | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 133 | R. O. Crawshay | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 134 | R. O. Abercromby | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 135 | Lt. G. J. E. Manisty | 12 September 1911 | - |
| 136 | John Brereton | 19 September 1911 | - |
| 137 | Albert Hunter | 19 September 1911 | - |
| 138 | Alfred Dunkinfield Jones | 19 September 1911 | - |
| 139 | Eric Clowes Pashley | 26 September 1911 | - |
| 140 | John Lewis Longstaffe | 26 September 1911 | (see Flight 29 March 1912, see also The Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: September 29, 1912) |
| 141 | Lt. A. Wyness Stuart, R.A. | 26 September 1911 | Died in a crash in Deperdussin Monoplane 100 Gnome No. 258, piloted by Capt. P. Hamilton, at Graveley, near Stevenage, on 6 September 1912. The accident was considered to have been caused by "a part of the engine coming off and hitting the bonnet over the engine, smashing one of the wing wires, and thus loosening the wings". |
| 142 | Capt. Frederick William Richey | 3 October 1911 | - |
| 143 | Capt. Steele Hutcheson | 3 October 1911 | - |
| 144 | Capt. Cyril L. N. Newall Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall Marshal of the Royal Air Force Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 1st Baron Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM , was a British soldier and airman, who headed the Royal Air Force as the Chief of the Air Staff during the early part of the Second World War before serving as the sixth Governor-General of New Zealand... |
3 October 1911 | - |
| 145 | Lt. E. J. Strover | 10 October 1911 | - |
| 146 | Lionel Seymour Metford | 17 October 1911 | - |
| 147 | William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse VC, born William Barnard Moorhouse, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces... |
17 October 1911 | Rhodes-Moorhouse was the first airman to be awarded the VC. He died from injuries sustained from small-arms fire during an aerial attack on a railway junction at Kortrijk Kortrijk Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders... , Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... on 26 April 1915. |
| 148 | Zee Yee Lee | 17 October 1911 | Chinese aviator used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. |
| 149 | Lt. A. F. A. Hooper | 24 October 1911 | - |
| 150 | Lt. E. G. K. Cross | 24 October 1911 | - |
| 151 | Frank Martin Ballard | 31 October 1911 | - |
| 152 | Lt. H. H. Harford | 7 November 1911 | - |
| 153 | Mrs. Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks | 7 November 1911 | Licence test flights at Hendon using a Farman biplane, the second British woman to hold a licence. Gave up flying following a serious flying accident at Hendon in 1913. |
| 154 | Eustace B. Loraine Eustace Loraine -See also:*List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft... |
7 November 1911 | Holder of French certificate no. 126; died in a crash in a Nieuport 70 Gnome Monoplane on Salisbury Plain 5 July 1912, the first R.F.C. officer to die in this way; Staff-Sergeant R.H.V.Wilson, his passenger, also died in the crash. |
| 155 | Oswald Lawrence Mellersh | 14 November 1911 | - |
| 156 | Sub.-Lt. Francis Esmé Theodore Hewlett, R.N. | 14 November 1911 | Used a Farman Biplane at Brooklands. Son of the first woman to hold a licence, Hilda Hewlett Hilda Hewlett Hilda Beatrice Hewlett was the first British aviatrix to earn a pilot's licence. She was also a successful early aviation entrepreneur. She created and ran the first flying school in the United Kingdom. She also created and managed a successful aircraft manufacturing business which produced more... . Took part in the Cuxhaven Raid Cuxhaven Raid The Cuxhaven Raid was a British ship-based air-raid on the German naval forces at Cuxhaven mounted on Christmas Day, 1914.Aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service were carried to within striking distance by seaplane tenders of the Royal Navy, supported by both surface ships and submarines... in 1914. Transferred to the Royal Air Force and then Royal New Zealand Air Force. |
| 157 | Robert Bertram Slack | 14 November 1911 | - |
| 158 | Captain Richard Scorer Molyneux Harrison | 14 November 1911 | A Captain with the 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force) 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force) The 51st Sikhs was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1846 as the 1st Regiment of Infantry The Frontier Brigade. It was designated as the 51st Sikhs in 1903 and became 1st Battalion 12th Frontier Force Regiment in 1922... , used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Killed in action 16 August 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign. |
| 159 | Captain Clement Robert Wedgwood Allen WR Welch Regiment The Welch Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1969.-History:It was formed as the Welsh Regiment during the Childers Reforms of 1881, by the amalgamation of the 41st Regiment of Foot and the 69th Regiment of Foot... |
14 November 1911 | Used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands for certificate. Died in an aircraft accident 11 March 1914 |
| 160 | H. A. Williamson | 28 November 1911 | - |
| 161 | Robert Smith-Barry Robert Smith-Barry Robert Raymond Smith-Barry was an officer in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force. His most notable contribution was in developing flying instruction methods. In December 1916 he masterminded a complete reorganization of flying training methods at Gosport.The curriculum... |
28 November 1911 | - |
| 162 | George Bentley Dacre | 28 November 1911 | RNAS pilot and prisoner of war during World War I, senior RAF commander during World War II. |
| 163 | Lt. John Graham Bower | 28 November 1911 | - |
| 164 | James Arthur Anderson | 28 November 1911 | - |
| 165 | Maj. R. L. Benwell | 6 December 1911 | - |
| 166 | Capt. Robert Gordon Robert Gordon (RAF officer) Air Commodore Robert Gordon CB, CMG, DSO, RAF was a Royal Marines officer who held various posts in Royal Naval Air Service during World War I and was a senior officer in Royal Air Force from 1918 onwards... |
6 December 1911 | - |
| 167 | James Denys Perceval Chataway | 12 December 1911 | Used a Deperdussin Monoplane at the Deperdussin School, Brooklands. |
| 168 | Charles Ferris Montagu Chambers | 12 December 1911 | Used a Valkyrie Monoplane at Hendon |