| 词条 | Irish Parachute Club |
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| name = Clonbullogue Airfield | nativename = Irish Parachute Club | nativename-a = | nativename-r = | image = | image-width = | caption = | IATA = | ICAO = EICL | type = Private | owner = | operator = | city-served = Edenderry, Portarlington, Rathangan, Kildare | location = | elevation-f = 190 | elevation-m = 58 | coordinates = {{Coord|53|14|58|N|7|7|24|W|type:airport}} | website = http://www.skydive.ie/ | metric-elev = | metric-rwy = | r1-number = 09/27 | r1-length-f = 2,526 | r1-length-m = 770 | r1-surface = Grass | r2-number = | r2-length-f = | r2-length-m = | r2-surface = | stat-year = | stat1-header = | stat1-data = | stat2-header = | stat2-data = | footnotes = No lighting, no fuel }} The Irish Parachute Club (IPC) is located in Clonbullogue, County Offaly, in Ireland. It was founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper Freddie Bond and began operations at Weston airfield in Leixlip, training several teams for international competition. The club later operated from a number of locations before establishing a drop zone in 1974 at Tokn Grass, west of Edenderry. The first club aircraft, a Cessna 172, was bought in the same year. In 1983, a Cessna 206 was bought and, in 1988, the club moved to its current location at Clonbullogue Airfield. There have been important developments more recently including the construction of hangars and other buildings, the purchase of a Pilatus PC-6 Porter turbine aircraft, and the setting of several Irish skydiving records including a 51 person formation in July 2008. The IPC operates on weekends and bank holidays, and offers tandem skydiving, accelerated freefall, and static line parachuting training programmes. AirfieldClonbullogue Airfield has one grass strip runway running east-west which is 770 m long and 18 m wide.[1]References1. ^Clonbullogue village information - Offaly County Council website External links
2 : Sports clubs in the Republic of Ireland|Parachuting |
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