Kent Gliding CLub

The Club as we know it today was re-formed on April 26th 1956 with the amalgamation of the Royal Engineers (R.E.) Gliding Club and the new Kent Gliding Club, then based on the old Battle of Britain airfield at Detling. Since then we have flown at a number of other Kent airfields, including West Malling. In May 1961 the land at Challock was purchased but it was another two years of preparation before the field could be used for gliding.
We were at that time one of the few Clubs to own its airfield. At 14:00hrs on 15th June 1963, the first flying activity took place with the landing of Chief Flying Instructor Roy Hubble who was followed by the rest of the fleet - all towed from West Malling by Tiger Moths. The club house was built and officially opened on the 21st August 1965. Kent Gliding Club became fully operational at Challock, with regular weekend flying and a few holiday courses ever since. Over the years we have constantly reviewed our operation and re-equipped with Gliders and Tug aircraft to keep up-to-date, enabling the Club to operate 7 days a week during the Summer and Wednesdays and weekends during the Winter.