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British Air Racing Champions
(Jubilee Trophy)


As with motor racing, points are awarded according to each aircraft’s race position at the finish. Points are accumulated throughout a racing season to derive the Champion.

Racing season

A typical handicapped air racing season comprises 8 venues and 16 races. The maximum points available for a win in each race is 100, awarded on a sliding scale.

The winner of this cumulative championship is known as the British Air Racing Champion and they receive the Jubilee Trophy. This silver cup was originally presented in 1952. The runner-up is awarded the Brian McBride Trophy, a silver bowl on a wooden plinth.

Championship History

The British Air Racing Championship was developed in the early 1980s with the reformation of the former Royal Aero Club Competition Committee into the Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association (3Rs). 

As soon as aircraft could stay airborne for predictable amount of time pilots started to pit their skills and aircraft against each other in personal, national, and international races. 

The earliest air races soon gained an international audience. Large cash prizes were offered for the winners. Perhaps the epitome of air racing is the Schneider Trophy.

As aircraft design diversified and became more specialised, handicapping was adopted in Britain to level an otherwise unfair race field. The first handicapped race was in 1922 and was sponsored by King George V. The King’s Cup remains the only air race to receive royal patronage.

In 1931 the race rules were updated to allow amateur pilots to compete in standard production aircraft. These rules still apply today albeit with some minor modifications in the interests of safety and fairness. 

Although handicapped air racing was initially a British phenomenon the concept has been adopted to stage air races worldwide.In the early 1980s the British Air Racing Championship was developed with the reformation of the Royal Aero Club Competition Committee into the Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association, allocating points according to position in the field at the finish of each air race, accumulating throughout a racing season.

Jubilee Trophy Winners

  • 1952 WPI Fillingham
  • 1953 Sqn Ldr James Rush AFC
  • 1954 Miss Freydis Leaf
  • 1955 JN Somers AFC
  • 1956 Flt Lieut HB Iles
  • 1957 Flt Lieut KB Iles
  • 1958 HAG Smith
  • 1959 Capt NT Baldwick AAC
  • 1960 Sqn Ldr J DeM Severne
  • 1961 SM Aarons
  • 1962 D McD Hartas
  • 1963 PG Bannister
  • 1964 D McD Hartas
  • 1965 P Blamire
  • 1966 JAC Miles
  • 1967 J Stewart-Wood
  • 1968 RL Ranscombe
  • 1969 CBG Masefield
  • 1971 Michael Jones
  • 1972 Frederick Marsh
  • 1973 Paul Bannister
  • 1981 Gordon Franks
  • 1982 J Stewart-Wood
  • 1983 Flt Lieut D Turner
  • 1984 Dr I Dalziel
  • 1985 GSI Hanks
  • 1986 FB Miles
  • 1987 PW Crispe
  • 1988 KJ Wilson
  • 1989 Andrew Brinkley
  • 1990 Spencer Flack
  • 1991 Derek Simpson
  • 1992 Bruce Hook
  • 1993 Sqn Ldr M Baker
  • 1994 Bruce Hook
  • 1995 Bob Willies
  • 1996 Sqn Ldr A Austin MBE
  • 1997 Paul Moorhead
  • 1998 Bert Miles
  • 1999 Graham J Banfield
  • 2000 Robert Miller
  • 2001 M Konstantinovic
  • 2001 Ivan H Seach-Allen
  • 2002 P Wadsworth
  • 2003 Robert Miller
  • 2004 John Kelsall
  • 2005 Craig Beevers
  • 2006 Anthony P Beynon
  • 2007 R Callaway-Lewis
  • 2008 Alistair Allan
  • 2009 Craig Beevers
  • 2010 Neil Cooper
  • 2011 Geoffrey Boot
  • 2012 Gordon Bellerby
  • 2013 Martin Gosling
  • 2014 Martin Gosling
  • 2015 Bob Ellis
  • 2016 Mark Turner & Joanne Turner
  • 2017 Dominic Crossan
  • 2018 Simon Tilling & Emma Taylor
  • 2019 Jonathan Willis & Gurcharan Bhoday
  • 2020 - Season cancelled - 
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