Aéro-Club de France

Organization names	Aero Club of France : Aéro-Club de France (AeCF)
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Country	France
City	Paris
Affiliated with	FAI
Scope	National
Started aero	December 21, 1898
Ended aero
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• The Aero Club, Société d'Encouragement à la Locomotion Aérienne, started as an offshoot of the Automobile Club of Paris on 21 Dec 1898. By declaration of 18 Dec 1903, the name became "Aéro-Club de France, Société d'Encouragement à la Locomotion Aérienne." By April 1905, it headed a federation of French aero clubs. The club hosted and was one of the eight national organizations that met in Paris 12-14 Oct. 1905 to put together the FAI. On 20 Apr 1909, it was recognized as a public utility by decree and the name was shortened to Aéro-Club de France (AeCF). For additional prior history, see the entry in this table beginning Aero Club, Society for Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion : Aero Club, Société d'Encouragement à la Locomotion Aérienne. In 1910, the club had commissions (committees) on aviation (that one was founded 9 May 1903), and on dirgible balloons, spherical balloons, litigation and laws, festivals, science, ascents, sports, and the library. It was still primarily a ballooning club, and also was in charge of awarding licenses to pilots and aviators in France.

This club was a founding member of the FAI in 14 Oct 1905.

• At the FAI Conference Statutaire in October 1910, it reported the gas consumed by balloons and also reported 36 aeroplanes in the country. It sponsored an exhibition on the history of ballooning and aviation at the Grand Palais, Champs d'Elysses, in 1909. The fourth exhibition on aerial locomotion was in 1913; the eighth 8th was in 1922 and that also included a congress of affiliates of the Aero Club de France. A catalog for the library was published 1922. The volume Cent Ans Avec L'Aero-Club de France [1898-1998} documents the club's centennial.

(The souvenier of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the club is dated 7 Nov. 1917, which appears to be a year early; that could be a printing or library cataloging error.) The club has a website, http://www.aeroclub.com, which does not travel heavily on its history.

• Jane's, 1910-1911, did not have the address change that occurred in 1909.
• Address=35 Rue Francois, Paris 1er (1909 to at least 1919)
• Cable address=Aero-Club, Paris (at least 1906-1911)
• Phone=Secretariat, 666-21 or 66-21 (1910), then Passy 66-21 (at least 1910-1913). Seat, Passy 25-61 (1913). Commission d' Aviation, 640-86 or 40-86 (1910), then Passy 40-86 (at least 1910-1913). Park d'Aerostation, St. Cloud, 288 (at least 1910-1913).

Sources

• Bulletin Officiel de l'Aero Club in L'Aerophile (a sampling from 1900-1909, excl. 1905)
• Conference Internationale d'Aeronautique Proces-Verbaux, Oct. 12-14, 1905
• FAI Conference Statutaire Proces-Verbaux (1906-1910, 1912)
• FAI Conference Extraordinaire, 19-21 May 1919
• Sommaire, FAI Reunion, 23-24 Oct 1919, in 1:1 Bulletin Officiel de la FAI (Jan. 1920)
• 1:1 Bulletin Officiel de la FAI (Jan. 1920)
• P-B of Aeronautics 443 (English ed., Jan. 1907)
• 1:5 Aeronautics (NYC) 44 (1907)
• 1:6 Aeronautics (NYC) 37 (1907)
• ACA annuals (1907-1917, 1919)
• 1909 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 92
• 1910-1911 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 124, 125 (Nov. 1910)
• 1911 Aero-Manuel 223, 246, 466-467, 500 (1 Oct. 1910)
• 1914 Aero-Manuel 570 (1 Oct. 1913)
• http://www.aviation-francaise.com/100%20ans%20ACF.htm
• http://www.aeroclub.com/
• http://www.fai.org/about/history
• Library of Congress OPAC
• National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints
• WorldCat.org and WorldCat-OCLC
• U.Michigan OPAC: 2004
• Cailliez 198