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There were a number of local affiliations with universities and polytechnics. The mainstay aircraft were a number of Cessna 172s and 182s. In the 1990s, the club was taken over and run on a more commercial basis, but due to local disputes over noise and some financial difficulties the regularity of flying days declined. It is now
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