Nick Buckenham

Advanced British Aerobatic Champion 1997/8

Nick is 59 years old, married to Jen (BAeA Membership Secretary!) and has one daughter. A Chartered Mechanical engineer by profession he is technical director of a vending machine manufacturing company in Northern Ireland. Nick has held a PPL for 15 years and - after seeking an alternative to airfield coffee tasting - discovered aerobatics in 1989. A few years in a Pitts-S1 was followed by much gyrating in the first (and rather gaudy!) Yak-55M in the UK, some in displays but mostly at BAeA advanced competitions. He was chairman of the British Aerobatic Association for eight years from 1991, and competed as a British team member in the 1997 Advanced World Aerobatics Championship in the USA, in Slovenia in '98, in the Czech Republic in '99 (10th place, and a Team Bronze medal) and the somewhat rainy 2000 event at Grossenhein in Germany.  Nick is also (occasionally...) an accomplished aerobatic glider pilot.

Profile updated October 2002

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