Griffith Aero Club looks at India to survive

The future of the Griffith Aero Club remains up in the air with the board set to hold an extraordinary meeting within a fortnight to decide on a plan to try to turn the club’s struggling fortunes around.
With the loss of its senior flying instructor earlier in the year to Regional Express (Rex) and the drought hurting its recreational activities, the club has floated a number of business proposals in an attempt to build on its 61-year history.
Club president Denis Couch said one of the proposals to be discussed at the extraordinary meeting would be drawing on Griffith’s cultural ties with India to establish a foreign student training school.
“The Indian aviation industry is sending a lot of people to Australia for their training and with our cultural mix here we are hoping to get something up and running,” he said.
Mayor Dino Zappacosta said the council were looking at setting up a corporation to run the whole airport as a separate entity of council and “had a strong interest” in ensuring the club survived.
14/11/07 Ross Tyson/Area News, Australia