Our History

The Barbados Light Airplane Club, parent company of The Flight Training Institute (Barbados) Inc., was established in 1951, where the Club members met in the Goddards Restaraunt, Bay Street, St. Michael, Barbados.

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In 1952, the Club aquired its first aircraft, assembled by Ross McKenzie, an engineer of Trans Canada Airlines.
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Errol W. Barrow, the Premier of Barbados at the time, was the president of the Club in these early years. Other memebers were, Dr. Arnott Cato (former President of the Senate), Freddie Milar (Member of Parliament) and Gordon Butcher, the first person to gain a Private Pilot's Licence from the Club.

 

Shortly after that, Joyce Johnson, now Joyce Straker wife of Emile Straker from the famous group The Merrymen, was the first female pilot to receive her pilot's licence at The Barbados Light Airplane Club.