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About Nene Valley Gliding Club

Nene Valley Gliding Club, more easily known as NVGC, is a fairly small glider club with over fifty members that offers visitors gliding lessons near Cambridge and Peterborough.

Our membership covers a wide spectrum of age (12 to 70) and experience (pre-solo to Diamond badge holders). The Gliding Club is run by members, for the members. This reflects well the club's motto ab labor venire voluptas, or:

"Much fun through hard work"

Our gliding club uses two winches to launch the gliders. These are used to launch the gliders to about 1500'. Occasionally we utilise other local gliding club's aircraft to provide additional aerotow gliding lessons and aviation experiences.

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History of the Gliding Club

Nene Valley Gliding Club was constituted in 1968, using a field base at Winwick, near Molesworth , and was duly registered as a member of the British Gliding Association (BGA)

In 1982, following friendly negotiations with the authorities at RAF Alconbury, and at the request of the RAF, the Gliding Club moved to RAF Upwood, to avoid operating in the vicinity of the Alconbury MATZ panhandle. Major W J Seitz (USAF) the Club CFI at the time, devised an agreement with RAF Wyton Air Traffic Control regarding operations co-ordination. This agreement was renegotiated 31st July 1987.

In 1995 the Club was given notice by the Defense Land Agent to find a new home as RAF Upwood was now "mothballed" and was being put up for sale. After many fruitless enquiries for a new base, a friendly farmer, Marshal Papworth offered the Club a ten year lease on land adjacent to RAF Upwood. Planning permission was applied for, the new airfield was cultivated and seeded. We obtained a 7 section portable building to be used as a Clubhouse and a 27 x 12 metre metal girder framed building for the Hangar. Planning Permission was granted and work began on the Clubhouse and Hangar, the latter was erected by professional steel erecters the rest of the work being done by Club members.

We moved to the new site in May 1997 and have been flying there since.

Tragically Marshal Papworth died in March 2000. The site has now been renamed Marshal's Paddock in remembrance of his efforts in helping the Club.

CLUB CONTACT DETAILS

Chairman
Roger Emms
for general club queries


Secretary
Richard Hayden
for all correspondence / general club related queries



Treasurer
Kerry Mertz
for all financial queries


Publicity
Simon Gent
for publicity & information


Ground Equipment
Steve Jarvis
for all ground equipment related queries


Safety Officer -
Alan Wyse
for all safety related matters


Aircraft
Phil Alexander
for all aircraft related queries


Social
Paul Daly
for all social related queries


Site Manager
Vacant at Present

for all queries regarding the airfield site

Webmaster
David Mansfield

for all queries regarding the website


 

 

Nene Valley Gliding Club Ltd, Marshal's Paddock, Ramsey Road, Upwood, Cambs, PE26 2PH
Clubhouse 01487 813062 Launch Point 07761 478417
The Views expressed in this Website are not necessarily those of NVGC Ltd or the Webmaster
The Nene Valley Gliding Club Ltd is registered in England with registration number 5193277 and its Registered  Office is  Marshal's Paddock, Ramsey Road, Upwood, Cambs, PE26 2PH