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R.A. (Alan) Scholefield is an aviation historian with special research interests in the history of aviation in Northwest England. He is a Chartered Accountant and is a retired financial director.
He regularly contributes articles on aviation history to specialist magazines and gives frequent illustrated lectures on the subject to interested bodies in England and Wales.
He has written the following books:
- First and Foremost : Fifty years of Manchester's Civic Airports. Manchester International Airport Authority, 1978.
- Manchester Airport. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1998. ISBN 0-7509-1954-X.
He is currently finalizing a book on Manchester's early airfields 1910-1960.
He has flown in over 170 types of aircraft. These include: a 1927 Swallow open cockpit biplane; a 1929 Ford 5-AT Trimotor; 1934 DH.86 Express; Douglas DC-3/4/6; Lockheed Super Constellation; Airspeed Ambassador; Ilyushin Il-18; N.A. P-51D Mustang and AT-6 Harvard; several types of US gliders; a hot air balloon; Concorde from JFK to Heathrow; also most types of turboprop and jet airliners in current service. His passenger flying hours accumulated during over 1300 flights are nearing 3000.
Regrettably, he is not a pilot, but thinks highly of those who can 'fly them airyplanes' !
