Vintage Glider Club

VGC Germany Closing Season
2024-09-21 - 2024-09-22 | Mengen, Germany

Dutch Autumn Rally
2024-09-16 - 2024-09-20 | Asperden, Germany

Great Plains Vintage/Classic Regatta
2024-09-12 - 2024-09-15 | Wichita Gliderport, Wichita, Kansas USA
Contact: Neil Pfeiffer nealpfeiffer@sbcglobal.net

100 Years of Gliding at Asiago
2024-09-06 - 2024-09-14 | 100 Years of Gliding at Asiago, Asiago, Italy
Download documents:
Locandina alianti foto seppia logo def
Preliminary Program
Price list
Registration Form
info@aeropartoasiago.it

Experimental Soaring Association Western Workshop/Vintage Sailplane Regatta
2024-08-30 - 2024-09-02 | Mountain Valley Airport, Tehapchapi, California USA
Contact: Jeff Byard jgbyard@gmail.com

Kleinen Segelflugzeug-Oldtimertreffen
2024-08-26 - 2024-09-01 | Kleinen Segelflugzeug-Oldtimertreffen, Czech Republic
8. – 1. 9. 2024 27. Kleinen Segelflugzeug-Oldtimertreffen, Rana u Loun airport, gathering of historic gliders

www.kleines-segelflugzeug-oldtimertreffen.de
Contact: info@kleines-segelflugzeug-oldtimertreffen.de
tomas.mezera@gmail.com
Czech Republic

VGC Slingsby Rally and 90th Anniversary of the Yorkshire Gliding Club
2024-08-24 - 2024-08-31 | Sutton Bank, Thirsk YO7 2EY

OSV-Jahrestreffen
2024-08-23 - 2024-08-25 | Colombier, Switzerland

Vintage Glider Rally at Maubray EBTY Belgium
2024-08-15 - 2024-08-18 | Vintage Glider Rally at Maubray EBTY Belgium, Belgium
Contact: Firmin Henrard – henrard.firmin@gmail.com

Download:
Invitation

Hronovske Orlíkovske Prehanky
2024-08-10 - 2024-08-17 | Hronovske Orlíkovske Prehanky, Velke Porici airport, Czech Republic
10 – 17 August 2024 Hronovske Orlíkovske Prehanky, Velke Porici airport
historic glider competition
https://aeroklubhronov.cz/hop.html
Contact: lkvp@lkvp.cz
Czech Republic

VGC 51st International Rally 2024
2024-07-28 - 2024-08-12 | Pociunai, Lithuania, Lithuania
https://www.pociunai.lt/vgc/#entries (please click on “Register to VGC)

Vintage and Retro Gliding week Ålleberg/Sweden 2024
2024-07-06 - 2024-07-14 | Alleberg Sweden
SVS, Segelflygets Veteransällskap in Sweden invites you to Ålleberg 2024 from July 6 to July 14. We welcome you all! With or without vintage or retro-gliders (1955-1970)! We fly and have fun every day during this week. Daily briefing at 9 AM at the gliding museum.
The venue is Ålleberg, near Falköping between the two big lakes Vänern and Vättern. Swedens ancient hilltop gliding site was inaugurated in 1941 and it is still the home of the Swedish Soaring Federations office and gliding instructor courses as well as aerobatic and cloud flying endorsements. It also houses our fantastic glidermuseum and a separate private vintage and retroglider collection. We have on site simple accomodation in single and double rooms and a camping site with electricity as well as sauna, restaurant and above all, our fantastic nature.
The grass airstrip of 700 m is 100 m above the plain and allows for good slope fsoaring in W-NW wind. Thermal conditions are also good and there are plenty of outlandingfields available. We fly mostly aerotow but occasionally we also launch by winch. There may be some limited hangarspace available. Radio is not mandatory in our area and airspace is free up to FL 95.
We would love to see you with or without your own glider. From the continent there are several routes and ferries, we recommend either the ferry-way Puttgarden-Rödby and then Helsingör-Helsingborg or the bridges way via Stora Bält (Denmark) and Copenhagen-Malmö but there are others.
Registration and participation fee 0 kr
Membership fee SVS 35 Euro (to fly our gliders)
Single bedroom 25 Euro/night
Breakfast in the restaurant is 8 Euro, lunch 10 Euro, evening meal 13 Euro. Aerotow 500 m 25 Euro 800 m 34 Euro (subject to changes) Winch 6 Euro at Ålleberg. Glider rental <30 min 25 Euro, >30 min 35 Euro (+ aerotow or winch).
If you dont bring your own glider we have available twoseaters Bergfalke II/55, Slinfsby T21b and sometimes Bocian. If you are qualified and have a current licence you can after checkflight fly our Grunau Baby IIB, Olympia, K8b or Vasama. Membership fee is mandatory to fly our gliders.
For registration when you plan to be here, roombooking and information about your glider or intention to fly with ours (depending on availability) contact Bernt Hall well in advance on
sekr@svs-se.org You will then get further news by mail.
Website: www.svs-se.org
We recommend the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0n9r5CEH0
Welcome!
Bernt Hall
Secretary SVS
Phone: ++46 70 541 36 74

Int. Vintage Sailplane Meet 2024
2024-07-06 - 2024-07-13 | Elmira, 51 Soaring Hill Dr Elmira, NY 14903 United States, NY, 14903, United States

POTK national meeting
2024-06-22 - 2024-06-30 | Brno Medlanky airport, Czech Republic
22 – 30 June 2024 31st POTK national meeting, Brno Medlanky airport, meeting of historic gliders, http://sletypotk.wbs.cz
Contact: sletPOTK@email.cz
Czech Republic

Camphill Vintage Rally
2024-06-21 - 2024-06-28 | Derbyshire & Lancashire Gliding Club, Camphill Farm, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire SK17 8RQ, United Kingdom

Welcome back to Parham for Jose Weiss 115!
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-21 | Parham, United Kingdom
In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Southdown GC hosted a unique trio of VGC Rallies.
The last of these gloriously celebrated the centenary of what the late Martin Simons calls the world’s first soaring flight, when Eric Gordon England gained maybe 50 feet altitude over the South Downs (very close to Southdown’s Parham site) in the Jose Weiss bird-shaped glider called Olive.
Southdown GC has become an outstandingly successful club, blessed with its closeness to the finest soarable ridge in the South of England- and often some very benign sea breeze fronts as well.
From 17-21 June this year, we invite VGC members to join us once again! Very sadly , many of our previous visitors are no longer with us, but we welcome those who maybe have not flown at Parham before, as well as those who still remember that wonderful trio of rallies. Incidentally, although the rally officially opens on Monday 17th June, we anticipate and welcome some ‘mission creep’, with arrivals and departures in the weekends before and after the rally itself, particularly as the weekend of 22/23 June is our habitual Longest Day event!
In recent years, there have been some changes and improvements at Parham. In particular, the Clubhouse has been totally rebuilt (to the design of the late Jim Cornish, formerly a VGC member and Oly 463 pilot). We now have a more powerful Tost winch, and have also joined the ‘Eurofox Club’, with two of these great towplanes, which are so well suited to vintage operations.
We intend to have some model flying too. Champion aeromodeller and kit originator, Chris Foss, is a very long-established Southdown member. If you get busy now, there is still time to build a model of the historic Jose Weiss ‘Olive’ glider!
There will be social events and we may even be joined by some members of the extended Weiss family .
More details will follow soon, but there is already a dedicated web page for the rally, with a detailed guide prepared by Craig Lowrie, at https://www.southdowngliding.co.uk/
Please contact me at ukrallysec@vintagegliderclub.org

VSA Annual Meeting Mid-American Air Centre
2024-06-15 | Lawrenceville, Illinois USA
Contact: Jim Short sailplane121@gmail.com

Midwest Vintage/Classic Regatta Wabash Valley Soaring Association (WVSA)
2024-06-10 - 2024-06-16 | Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport, Lawrenceville, Illinois USA

2nd Saturday Glider Weekend
2024-06-08 - 2024-06-09 | Ken Jernstedt Airport, Hood River, Oregon USA

Ulf's memorial,
2024-05-25 - 2024-06-02
25 May – 2 June 2024 Ulf’s memorial, Rana u Loun airport, historic glider competition
https://www.ulfuvmemorial.cz
Contact: tomas.mezera@gmail.com
Czech Republic

UK National Rally at Usk
2024-05-25 - 2024-05-31 | USK, United Kingdom
There is still time to register for the 2024 VGC UK National Rally at Usk – through the kind hospitality of the South Wales Gliding Club. This will be the first VGC national rally in Wales for many years.
Last year we held a very enjoyable mini-rally (The ‘Coronation’- Rally- goodness, that seems a long time ago, doesn’t it?) This ‘trial run’ showed what friendly people they are at Usk; also that it must be one of the easiest rural airfields to reach, with not a single hairpin bend, narrow lane, or clutch-mangling hill climb. It is a pastoral flat-land site, but with a gentle ridge close by, and dramatic terrain not very far away; wave flights are a real possibility.
There’s a Skylaunch winch and an excellent Pawnee tug ( ex-Southdown- so it is in great shape!)
The nearby town of Usk, incidentally, is really picturesque and offers plenty of accommodation if you are not camping. (Even a bit of fishing if so inclined).
We are fortunate to have a great local organizer, who is Adam Deacon. You will find a beautiful rally page on the main Usk Website: https://www.uskgc.co.uk/

Western Vintage/Classic Regatta
2024-05-24 - 2024-05-27

42. Grunau Baby Treffen
2024-05-15 - 2024-05-22 | Flieger-Club Strausberg e. V., Flugplatzstraße F1, 33 Strausberg, 15344 Germany, Germany

Dutch Spring Rally
2024-05-09 - 2024-05-12
Location to be published at a later date

Dedale Meeting
2024-04-27 - 2024-05-05 | Aire-sur-l’Adour, France

VGC Germany Season Opening Segelfluggerlande Altenbachtal
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-28 | Aschaffenburg, Germany

Spring Flying
2024-04-20 - 2024-05-06 | Marfa, Texas USA, Marfa, United States

Aero Friedrichshafen
2024-04-17 - 2024-04-20 | Germany

Hunter Valley Gliding Club Easter Rally
2024-03-29 - 2024-04-01 | Warkworth, New South Wales, Australia, Warkworth, New South Wales, Australia

Vintage Gliders Australia Annual Rally
2024-01-06 - 2024-01-13 | Millicent, South Australia, Millicent, Australia
