Everyone is welcome at Bodmin Airfield, whether arriving by road or air. We are open for Air experience flights, Private Pilot’s Licence and Light Aircraft Pilot’s License . Our mission is to ‘Promote the interests of general aviation throughout Devon and Cornwall, and to provide a safe, friendly and stimulating environment for members and visitors alike’. Please pop in and see us; you’re guaranteed a warm reception.
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"For some years after WWI, there was a reasonable (if somewhat precarious) living to be made by offering the general public 'joy-rides'.
And very popular they were too, for a while; in September 1921 Capt A F Muir (of Surrey Flying Services) said that, so far that year, he had taken up over 7,000 people, and the scarlet Avro 504K G-EBIZ owned by Messrs Hill and (Capt Percy) Phillips carried 91,000 passengers between 1924 and 1935.
It seemed that anyone who could afford an ex-RAF Avro 504 could set up as an individual or a company, and try their luck"