List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1911


The Royal Aero Club issued Aviators Certificates from 1910.
These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

List

Legend
No.NameDateComment-
39Bethell Godefroy Bouwens7 January 1911Author of several books on the subject of genealogy.-
40Lt. George Bayard Hynes RGA7 January 1911Awarded the DSO 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.-
41St. Croix Johnstone7 January 1911Killed 16 August 1911 when his Moisant monoplane crashed into Lake Michigan while he was taking part in the 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet.-
42Henry Cook7 January 1911He was awarded Royal Aero Club Special Certificate No. 7 for carrying out a series flights and aerial manoeuvres which were of special merit in the early years of aviation.-
43Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett7 January 1911. A Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon. He "was seconded to the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers, 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" on 18 May 1915. and is buried at Le Touret Military Cemetery. Three of the four brothers were killed in the Great War.-
44Paul Georges Leon Jezzi7 January 1911Leo Jezzi was an aircraft designer; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators. Built two aircraft of his own design at Eastchurch.-
45Lt. Reginald Archibald Cammell, RE7 January 1911He died 17 September 1911 when he crashed in an 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, man-lifting kites and aeroplanes.-
46Oscar Colin Morison17 January 1911An engineer, he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Brooklands. Died in 1966.-
47James Valentine17 January 1911Used 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. 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;-
48Henry J. Delaval Astley24 January 1911Died flying a Blériot in an exhibition Flight in Belfast on 21 September 1912.-
49Robert Francis Macfie24 January 1911Aircraft designer and constructor ; sometimes credited with the invention of the 'tank' ; he was a member of the British Landships Committee.-
50Cecil Howard Pixton24 January 1911Winner of the 1914 Schneider Trophy in a Sopwith Tabloid floatplane; founder of the AVRO flying school at Brooklands.-
51Herbert John Thomas24 January 1911Born 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. He had also served as chairman and council member of the Society of British Aerospace Companies.-
52Sir Ellis "Victor" Sassoon 24 January 19113rd Baronet Sassoon.-
53Geoffrey de Havilland7 February 1911Aviation pioneer, designer, founder of de Havilland Aircraft Company; he received the R.Ae.C. Special Certificate no. 4 on 9 Jan. 1912.-
54Captain Daniel Goodwin Conner RFC7 February 1911Capt. Conner was a flight commander in No. 5 Squadron RFC and later, as temporary Major, squadron commander. A photograph of Lt. Conner appeared in Flight Magazine's "Aviation Pioneers" series in its issue dated 4 March 1911.-
55James Vernon Martin7 February 1911Martin was an American citizen and inventor, who took out many aeronautical patents, including an "automatic stabilizer and retractable landing gear ".-
56Arthur Haynes Aitken14 February 1911Flight Roll of Honour: Reported missing on 11 November 1918: Aitken, Sec. Lieut. A.H.-
57Charles L A Hubert14 February 1911French aviator, born 16 March 1889; took part in the King George V Coronation flights from Hendon, where he crashed his Farman III and broke both legs.-
58George Henry Challenger14 February 1911Elected "Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society" in 1913, chief designer and engineer in the aviation department of Vickers; 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 machine-guns.-
59George Richard Sutton Darroch14 February 1911Blériot school, Hendon. 22 Feb. 1880, d. 3 Dec. 1959; went to Eton College; was an apprentice at the London & North Western Railway in Crewe; fought in World War I, being awarded the Croix de Guerre; returned to work in Crewe, eventually becoming Assistant Works Manager with the LNWR and its successor, the London, Midland and 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 Compound locomotive now maintained and operated by the Stephenson Locomotive Society.-
60Archibald Knight14 February 1911at Bristol Flying School, Brooklands; instructor at the Vickers Flying School; joined the RFC in 1914; recalled to join Maxwell Muller in managing the Vickers works at Weybridge as works manager until his retirement 1936; returned in 1939 to manage Wellington and Warwick repair.-
61Collyns Price Pizey14 February 1911Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Later chief instructor at Bristol's Brooklands school. Died of dysentery in Greece 11 June 1915, he was a Flt. Lt. in the Royal Naval Air Service working for the British Naval Mission to Greece.-
62Louis Maron14 February 1911A French aviator who used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain.-
63William Hugh Ewen14 February 1911Scottish 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 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, and appeared in the 1913 aviation film Through the Clouds.-
64Gustav Hamel14 February 1911Holder of the French aviator's certificate no. 358; he disappeared over the English Channel on 23 May 1914 while returning from Paris in a new 80 hp Morane-Saulnier 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.-
65Quinto Poggioli28 February 1911Italian aviator used a Bleriot Monoplane at the New Forest Aviation School, Beaulieu.-
66Lewis William Francis Turner4 April 1911Used a Farman Biplane at Hendon. Served with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.-
67Waldo Ridley Prentice25 April 191114 August 1883-18 January 1952
Used a Farman Biplane at Hendon to gain his certificate. Flew for Aeronautical Syndicate Limited until it closed in 1912 and became involved with British Anzani. Due to heart problems he didn't fly much and spent over thirty years in the diplomatic service.		-
68Eric C. Gordon England25 April 1911One of the early pioneers of gliding.-
69Henry R. Fleming25 April 1911–-
70Charles Cyril Turner25 April 1911Author of .-
71Lt. Charles Rumney Samson RN25 April 1911Samson 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.-
72Lt. Arthur M. Longmore RN25 April 1911Later Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore RAF; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators.-
73Lt. Wilfred Parke RN25 April 1911Gained his certificate at Brooklands in a Bristol Boxkite on his fourth flight. 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.-
74Francis Conway Jenkins CBE2 May 1911b. 1888, d. 1933; raced cars at Brooklands; took part in the Circuit of Britain Air Race; rose from 2nd. Lt. to Brigadier-General, Director of Parks and Depots, Air Ministry; he resigned his commission and became a director of The British Motor Trading Corporation.-
75Lt. Reginald Gregory RN2 May 1911Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators.-
76Lt. Eugene Louis Gerrard RMLI2 May 1911Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators.-
77Edward Victor Beauchamp Fisher2 May 1911On 13 May 1912 Fisher was piloting a Green powered Flanders monoplane with an American passenger Mr. Mason when it crashed at Brooklands killing them both.-
78Hubert Oxley9 May 1911Chief Flying Instructor at Filey, Yorkshire; died 6 December 1911, together with his passenger, Mr. Weiss: during a steep dive in a Blackburn Mercury, fabric tore off the wings and the plane crashed, killing both Oxley and Weiss.-
79Harold Blackburn9 May 1911Demonstration pilot for Robert Blackburn. Won the Wars of the Roses air race on 2 October 1913 and piloted the first scheduled airline flights in Great Britain on 22 July 1914. Served with the RFC in France and Palestine. Retired from the RAF in 1929.-
80Ronald C. Kemp9 May 1911Test pilot for Short Brothers; was injured in a crash at Brooklands on 23 February 1914.-
81R. W. Philpott9 May 1911–-
82Wilfred Herbert Dolphin9 May 1911Used a Hanriot Monoplane at Brooklands, an Automobile Engineer born in Birmingham on 8 May 1882, later served with the Royal Flying Corps.-
83C. H. Marks9 May 1911–-
84Capt. Seaton Dunham Massy9 May 1911Flew with the Air Battalion during 1911, and was commandant of the Indian Central Flying School at Sitapur.–
85F. P. Raynham9 May 19111893–1954-
86James L. Travers, Jr.16 May 1911Named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators; named on Eastchurch memorial to Pioneer Aviators. 'Jack' Travers was a draughtsman at Short Brothers and later also a flying instructor at Eastchurch.-
87Edward Hotchkiss16 May 1911Killed on 10 September 1912, together with his passenger, Lt. C. A. Bettington 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.-
88T. C. R. Higgins16 May 1911Commanded the RFC's Home Defence Brigade during World War I, retired as an air commodore in 1929.-
89Lt. W. D. Beatty RE30 May 1911–-
90Lt. R. B. Davies RN30 May 1911Awarded Victoria Cross for actions during Dardanelles Campaign. Retired as Vice-admiral in 1941-
91Bentfield Charles Hucks30 May 1911Test 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. The Hucks starter, an essential vehicle on Great War aerodromes, was named after him.-
92Captain Herbert Ramsay Playford Reynolds RE6 June 1911Royal Flying Corps, test flights at Salisbury Plain using a Bristol Biplane.-
93Thomas Henry Sebag-Montefiore13 June 1911–-
94H. R. Busteed13 June 1911The first Australian to hold a pilot's licence. Later an RAF air commodore.-
95Frederick Sykes20 June 1911Senior RFC commander and second Chief of the Air Staff.-
96G. Higginbotham27 June 1911–-
97Herbert Stanley-Adams27 June 1911–-
98Lt. J. W. Pepper RA27 June 1911–-
99Henry Salmet27 June 1911–-
100Charles Gordon Bell4 July 1911First professional test pilot ; having been invalided out of military service in World War I, Bell died Monday, 29 July 1918, test flying for Vickers Ltd.-
101Charles Reginald Abbott4 July 1911–-
102William Miller Hilliard4 July 1911–-
103William Darnley Johnstone4 July 19111889–1912 Died at the Minster Infirmary, Sheppey, aged 23 on 15 June 1912 following a motor-cycle accident.-
104Gerald Francis Napier18 July 1911Awarded after a flight at Brooklands in a Bristol Biplane. On 1 August 1911 he lost control during a flight at Brooklands and was killed, his passenger was thrown clear and survived.-
105Lt. Thomas Gerard Hetherington18 July 19111886–1951, became one of the first members of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and retired in 1935 as a Group Captain.-
106Cecil Lawrence Pashley18 July 1911–-
107Henry De Grey Warter18 July 1911Born 20 July 1885 at Kirkee, Bombay, India; Lieutenant, later Captain, 4th Dragoon Guards; served with his cavalry regiment in First World War and killed in action at Battle of Cambrai.-
108Capt. C. Robert Brooke-Popham18 July 1911–-
109Harry Bingham Brown1 August 1911–-
110Evelyn Frederick Driver1 August 1911South African born aviator used a Farman Biplane at Hendon for certificate flights.-
111Norman Scott Percival1 August 1911–-
112Walter Oswald Watt1 August 1911–-
113Walter Lawrence1 August 1911–-
114George Miller Dyott17 August 1911–-
115Lt. Col. Charles Oswald Smeaton17 August 1911--
116Louis Noel17 August 1911–-
117Lt. Spenser Douglas Adair Grey RN17 August 1911Used a Farman biplane at Brooklands. Served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the first world war being awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the American Navy Distinguished Service Medal. Left with the rank of Lt Col. He died in 1937 when he fell off the roof of his flat in London.-
118Brig. Gen. Colonel D Henderson CB, DSO17 August 1911Gained his certificate at Brooklands in Bristol Boxkite after less tham a weeks instruction.-
119Theodore John Ridge17 August 1911Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory – killed 18 August 1911 in crash of Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1.-
120Carl Olaf Dahlbeck29 August 1911Swedish aviator used a Farman Biplane at Hendon.-
121Lt. L.V. Stewart Blacker29 August 1911Joint organizer and chief observer on first flight over Mount Everest in 1933-
122Mrs. Hilda Beatrice Hewlett29 August 1911The first British woman to receive a pilot's certificate, gained flying a Farnham biplane. Opened a flying school at Brooklands with Gustav Blondeau and an aircraft company with him. She taught her son, Francis Hewlett to fly.-
123Walter C. England29 August 1911–-
124Herbert Spencer29 August 1911Described as an Aviator/Aero Engineer he obtained licence on a biplane he had built himself.-
125Capt. Captain D. Le Geyt Pitcher29 August 1911–-
126Capt. C. G. Hoare29 August 1911–-
127Lt. Robert Hamilton Clark-Hall RN29 August 1911Later Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall RAF.-
128Henry Aloysius Petre12 September 1911Henry 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.-
129William E. Gibson12 September 1911–-
130E. W. Copland Perry12 September 1911–-
131Eric Harrison12 September 1911–-
132Samuel Pepys Cockerell12 September 19111881–1915 Part of the Cambridge University crew for the 1900 Boat Race. Died in service with the Royal Flying Corps in Egypt in 1915.-
133R. O. Crawshay12 September 1911–-
134R. O. Abercromby12 September 1911–-
135Lt. G. J. E. Manisty12 September 1911–-
136John Brereton19 September 1911–-
137Albert Hunter19 September 1911–-
138Alfred Dunkinfield Jones19 September 1911–-
139Eric Clowes Pashley26 September 1911–-
140John Lewis Longstaffe26 September 1911-
141Lt. A. Wyness Stuart RA26 September 1911Died 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".-
142Capt. Frederick William Richey3 October 19111875–1934 Royal Artillery officer became an instructor at the Central Flying School and served with the Royal Flying Corps until January 1917 when he returned to his regiment. In 1915–16 he was commanding officer of 21 Squadron.-
143Capt. Steele Hutcheson3 October 19111880–1954 Indian Army seconded to the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.-
144Capt. Cyril L. N. Newall3 October 1911–-
145Lt. E. J. Strover10 October 1911An officer in the Burma Rifles served with the Royal Flying Corps during the first world war.-
146Lionel Seymour Metford17 October 19111888–1950 Served with the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force, died in Canada.-
147William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse17 October 1911Rhodes-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, Belgium on 26 April 1915.-
148Zee Yee Lee17 October 1911Chinese aviator used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain.-
149Lt. Alexander Francis Anderson Hooper24 October 1911Used a Bristol biplane at Salisbury Plain, born at Starcross in Devon on 5 June 1885 a Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales's. Was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force in 1920 and a Wing Commander in 1928. Died in 1977 in Devon.-
150Lt. Edward Guy Kynaston Cross24 October 1911Used a Bristol biplane at the Bristol School, Salisbury Plain, born in Bolton 23 November 1884 and he was a Lieutenant in the 7th Hussars in 1911. Later a Lieutenant-Colonel. Died 15 November 1969.-
151Frank Martin Ballard31 October 19111885–1956 Served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the first world war.-
152Lt. Henry Harold Harford7 November 1911Used a Bristol biplane at Brooklands, a Lieutenant in the Rpyal Field Artillery in 1911 he was born in Lahore, India on 1 January 1887.-
153Mrs. Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks7 November 1911Licence 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.-
154Eustace B. Loraine7 November 1911Died 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.-
155Oswald Lawrence Mellersh14 November 19111892–1974 Moved to Canada in 1925-
156Sub.-Lt. Francis Esmé Theodore Hewlett RN14 November 1911Used a Farman Biplane at Brooklands. Son of the first woman to hold a licence, Hilda Hewlett. Took part in the Cuxhaven Raid in 1914. Transferred to the Royal Air Force and then Royal New Zealand Air Force.-
157Robert Bertram Slack14 November 19111886–1913 A former Chauffeur from Nottingham before becoming an Aviator, he died in a motoring accident on 21 December 1913 aged 28.-
158Captain Richard Scorer Molyneux Harrison14 November 1911A Captain with the 51st Sikhs, used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Killed in action 16 August 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign.-
159Captain Clement Robert Wedgwood Allen, Welch Regiment14 November 1911Used a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands for certificate. Died in an aircraft accident 11 March 1914.-
160H. A. Williamson28 November 1911–-
161Robert Smith-Barry28 November 1911–-
162George Bentley Dacre28 November 1911RNAS pilot and prisoner of war during World War I, senior RAF commander during World War II.-
163Lt. John Graham Bower RN28 November 19111886–1940 Awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918 for service in Submarines.-
164James Arthur Anderson28 November 19111886–? Served in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force during the First World War.-
165Maj. Reginald Limond Benwell6 December 19111870–1934 Indian Army, later a Lieutenant-Colonel, imported the first aircraft into India.-
166Capt. Robert Gordon6 December 1911–-
167James Denys Perceval Chataway12 December 19111892–1953 Used a Deperdussin Monoplane at the Deperdussin School, Brooklands. He was appointed an OBE in 1948 when he was a Principal in the Board of Trade.-
168Charles Ferris Montagu Chambers12 December 19111892–1947 Born in South Africa. Used a Valkyrie Monoplane at Hendon. Served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1917. He committed suicide in Brighton in 1947.-