| 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.
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