The Airfield Research Group
The Airfield Research Group has enjoyed a continuous existence since it was formed in the late 1970's. Made up of like minded people the Group is a non profit making organisation whose funds are derived from subscriptions and voluntary contributions.
The aims of the Group are to research, record and to report information and material related to the history, architecture, current status and use of military and civilian airfields throughout the United Kingdom. Our members believe that it is important to maintain a history of all aspects of the nation’s aviation heritage.
Please visit the website for further information by clicking on the logo to the left. A membership form is also available to download on the downloads page.
The aims of the Group are to research, record and to report information and material related to the history, architecture, current status and use of military and civilian airfields throughout the United Kingdom. Our members believe that it is important to maintain a history of all aspects of the nation’s aviation heritage.
Please visit the website for further information by clicking on the logo to the left. A membership form is also available to download on the downloads page.
The Airfield Information Exchange
The Airfield Information Exchange (AiX) was created in April 2008 by Noel Ryan, Richard Flagg and Chris Percy. The three airfield researchers and photographers had for some time been looking for a way to centralise the contacts they had each built up over the preceding years as a vehicle for sharing information amongst fellow researchers.
The most obvious way of doing this was to create an internet based discussion forum and the initial framework of this was created by Noel in early April 2008. Richard and Chris were made administrators and over the next few days the basic form of AiX was created.
The viability figure of members perceived was just 50, but this was reached and passed fairly quickly indicating that we had found a hole in the market and consequently membership grew rapidly. Later that year the forum moved platforms to a more stable subscription system from the early free hosted version resulting in far superior performance. The system administration is now carried out by an IT professional who is also an ARG member. At the end of 2010 membership passed the 2000 mark and at the end of April 2011 it stands at 2618.
Membership of the forum is diverse. Many well known names in the military research world, including authors and noted experts in their own particular field have been brought together. Forum membership also includes individuals / representatives of interest groups (museums, collections, for example), those with an interest in a particular site or specific interest and those who want to learn from others about military architecture and history.
The most obvious way of doing this was to create an internet based discussion forum and the initial framework of this was created by Noel in early April 2008. Richard and Chris were made administrators and over the next few days the basic form of AiX was created.
The viability figure of members perceived was just 50, but this was reached and passed fairly quickly indicating that we had found a hole in the market and consequently membership grew rapidly. Later that year the forum moved platforms to a more stable subscription system from the early free hosted version resulting in far superior performance. The system administration is now carried out by an IT professional who is also an ARG member. At the end of 2010 membership passed the 2000 mark and at the end of April 2011 it stands at 2618.
Membership of the forum is diverse. Many well known names in the military research world, including authors and noted experts in their own particular field have been brought together. Forum membership also includes individuals / representatives of interest groups (museums, collections, for example), those with an interest in a particular site or specific interest and those who want to learn from others about military architecture and history.
