Entries by SteveHitchen

Queens Birthday Weekend Fly-away Report

LFC members staged a successful and fun weekend fly-away to Dubbo on 10-12 June, with 14 people and six aeroplanes making the 3.5+ hour trip to the city in the NSW Western Plains. We spent a day exploring the best Dubbo had to offer then braved the 20-knot headwinds and slowly darkening weather for the […]

Mount Beauty Fly-away

To say the Mount Beauty Fly-away 11-13 March was a success would be a chronic understatement: it was nothing short of brilliant! The weather was the best we could have hoped for with little to worry about on both the trip there and back with, get this, tailwinds in both directions! No-one had any trouble […]

Lilydale Airport Christmas Air Show

Lilydale Airport’s Christmas Air Show is on at the airport on Sunday 27 November. Last year was a great day out for everyone involved, and there’s every chance this year will be just as good. Mark this in your calendar and be there! Have a look at the flyer below for details. lilydale_xmas_flyer

Echuca Cup Day Trip

After the Hobart trip was torpedoed by bad weather, LFC flew to King Island on the Saturday of Melbourne Cup Weekend, then backed it up with lunch trips to Milawa on Monday and Echuca on Tuesday. The Echuca trip gathered five planes and 12 people, who made the trip after deciding Echuca was the safest […]

King Island

Our Melbourne Cup weekend fly-away to Hobart ended up being a day trip to King Island due to some hideous weather forecast that would have trapped us in Wynyard for a couple of days. The upside was that the day for crossing to King Island could not have been better! Nineteen people in eight planes […]

Order Your LFC Polo Shirts!

LFC is now taking order for high-quality polo shirts embroidered with the LFC logo. Shirts are a Sportec Pique with knitted collar and cuffs with jacquard detail in the cuffs, three-button placket and side seam splits. Platinum colour with the LFC logo over the left breast. Both men’s and women’s styles are available. Only $35 […]

2016-17 Memberships

All memberships for the coming year are now due. There will be no change to the standard $30 rate for the coming year. You can make payments electronically by transferring them straight into the LFC bank account: Name: LFS Social Club BSB: 633-000 Account: 152677076 Please make sure you put your membership number or name […]

LFC Flyer

Click on the link below to download a draft copy of a DL flyer created for use at the flying school desk. It is designed to be folded in thirds and handed out to people who inquire about LFC. We welcome your feedback on the content. Please send comments to Steve Hitchen hitchy@iinet.net.au DL_flyer_2_web