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The Royal Fights On:

Despite a seemingly impossible situation in which the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales’ social and flying training activities have ground to a halt due to insolvency problems, the fight to save the 70 years old institution goes on.

By the time these words are read, a special meeting will have been held to discuss the club’s future and to try to ensure that it has one by seeking assistance from the members. Over the past few months the club’s flying training franchisee, RAC Fleet Management Pty Ltd, went out of business and debts incurred by them for outstanding hangar rentals are now the liability of the club. Then the club was evicted from its premises at Bankstown Airport by the Federal Airports Corporation for failing to pay its electricity bill, something which the FAC controls.

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