UK GA – The Foundation of a Vibrant Aviation Sector

UK aviation will only be sustained for the good of national economic, defence and leisure interests if there is an active and vibrant General Aviation (GA) sector at its core.

Throughout the history of UK aviation, many of key innovations and developments have been spawned by GA. In war and peace, the GA sector and the associated interests that it catalyses in aviation have been a major source of the pilots, engineers, controllers and multiplicity of functions that sustain operations and keep them airborne.

GA covers the widest spectrum of aviation of any sector from training and private flying to specialist support for police and ambulance, to gliding, ballooning, helicopters and parachuting, air taxi and business aviation. Of the 21,000 UK registered aircraft[1], over 90% are in the GA sector!

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