Welcome to the Vintage Glider Club!
The Vintage Glider Club exists to restore old gliders and to have fun whilst flying them.
We are a truly international organisation with members from right across the world. The club was formed as a result of the very first International Vintage Glider Rally at Husbands Bosworth, UK in 1973 to encourage the continued preservation and flying of gliders from the past.
Membership is open to anybody who has an interest in the preservation, researching and flying vintage, old timer and classic gliders and associated artefacts.
A series of Rallies are organised each year in various countries where members are able to get together to share their passion for the preservation and flying of vintage gliders.
Members receive the club magazine VGC News which is lavishly illustrated and packed with the latest news, rally reports and articles three times a year.
Magazine
VGC News is the official magazine of the Vintage Glider Club. The magazine which is published 3 times a year is included in the price of annual membership. Each full colour issue is packed with information and exciting photos of interest to pilots, owners and modellers alike. For anyone interested in Vintage Gliders the magazine is an absolute must.
The VGC News has been published by the Vintage Glider Club since the Club was formed in 1973.
Back issues from 1973 to 2003 form a part of the Lakes Gliding Club Archive and can be viewed here.
List of Events
VGC Rendezvous 2023
The Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding Club
50th VGC International Rally 2023.
Cotswold Gliding Club, at Aston Down Airfield
VGC Annual Dinner 2023
More information as soon as possible!
40th Anniversary VGC Commerorative Book
The Vintage Glider Club 40th Anniversary book is available direct from our distributors. It is competitively priced at €54,50 plus Post and Packaging.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vintage Glider Club it was decided to produce a book. The book is an anthology of stories from around the world and includes details of over 300 hundred gliders which have been rescued, rebuilt or restored to active flying status. It deserves a place on every glider enthusiast’s bookshelf.
Richly illustrated with over 800 evocative colour photographs, it will appeal to all glider pilots, aeromodellers, historians and anyone who has a passion or interest in old timer gliders of yesteryear.
Additionally it contains many articles and tables which document the development of the Vintage Glider Club. It is a wonderful testament to the enthusiasm of it’s founder, Chris Wills, and those many members worldwide.past and present, who have painstakingly striven to preserve our gliding heritage for the future.
The Vinatage Glider Club
A celebration of 40 years preserving
and flying historic gliders 1973 – 2013
