Northwestern Scania Flyingclub - Brief History

 

Northwestern Scania Flying Club was founded in Helsingborg 1939. Initially the name was Helsingborgs flygklubb but the name was changed when the activity was moved to Hoganas.

The first airplane was bought in the form of a building kit.

It was a glider of type SG 38, and it was assembled in a bowling hall by the members. The flying activity started on the previous K2 training ground at Berga outside Helsingborg and the glider was launched by winch. The condition of the field was not the best and landings were risky among bushes, horses and sheep!

 


Also the second airplane had no motor and it was donated by the warehouse Tempo in Helsingborg. It was a soaring plane type Grunau Baby. During 1946 the club got it's first motorplane. It was a Piper Cub donated from Nordvastra Skanes Tidningar. In the spring of 1948 the club got it's first license to arrange a flying school but the Berga field was to poor for this type of flying so the flight instructions took place at the Havgard Airport near Klippan.

 


The 4th of June 1950 Hoganas Airport was inaugarated. The President of Hoganas AB, Mr. P.E. Gummeson, had the foresight already at that time to predict the future development of private aviation, and he sponsored the construction of Hoganas Airport which today is one of the best grass field airports of Sweden. Now the flying activities really picked up and within short there were 10 motor driven aiplanes and 5 soaring planes at the airport. 1954 the World Championships for Model Airplanes were held at Hoganas.

During the 50-ies a Klem 35 SE-AKN was acquired from Ljungbyhed and this airplane was mainly used for flight training. The club fleet was further extended by a Piper Cub SE-CGW from Norway and it was used until a crash 1960.

During the 60-ies the fleet was changed. For soaring plane launching of a Tiger Moth SE-CPW was used and for training and private flying there were one Cessna 140 SE-CNX and a Cessna 150 SE-CYH. Furthermore there was an MFI 9 SE-ENA used for towing. 1967 a new Piper Cherokee 140 SE-EZP was purchased. During 1969 the Scandinavian Flight Fair was organised and during one week there were exhibitors in all the hangars and a number of activities which ended with an air show.


 

During the 70-ies the fleet was changed to two Piper Colts and a number of Piper Cherokees 140 SE-EYU, SE-EUH, SE-FYF and SE-GDG. Unfortunately SE-EUH and SE-FYF crashed and in one of the accidents there were no survivors. 1978 a Piper Cherokee 180 SE-GAU was added and it is still used in revamped condition.



In the beginning of the 80-ies the soaring section of the club formed their own club Hoganas Soaring Club. 1981 the club hosted the EAA Europa Fly-In with a large number of visiting EAA planes. 1985 was organised an air show with the main event a visit by the DC-3 owned by the Flying Veterans. The club house became too small and 1989 was inaugerated a new club house with cafeteria, briefing room, flight instructors room, class room for flight theory and four overnight rooms fo visiting pilots. With that step the club activity was increased considerably and the number of student pilots increased steadily under Stig Skoglund's competent guidance.

The start of the 90-ies was caracterised by the economic recession which also effected NSF but during 1985 and 1986 this trend is broken and today more than 10 student pilots are undergoing training for their private pilote certificates. A flight booking computer was installed 1992 and 1995 a separate room for a flight simulator was organized so the IFR pilots could practice procedures with the Elite programme. SE-GDG was sold 1994 and was replaced with a well equipped Piper Warrior SE-KVT from Finland.

1995 the airplanes owned by the club were sold to a separate company, NSF i Hoganas AB, owned by the club members. The reason was that the commercial activites were better handled within the framework of in a company.