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Brig Gen W Paul Fry Rtd. Talk

Date: 31st August 2024

Time: 2pm

This event is FREE. Donations toward the museum are greatly appreciated. 

Awarded an Air Corps Cadetship in 1974, he was awarded his Air Corps “Wings” in Sep 1976. Over the following decade he completed the Air Corps 20th Flying Instructors Course in 1980, and the 194 RAF Qualified Helicopter Instructors Course in RAF Shawbury on Gazelle helicopters in 1981, and became Chief Flying Instructor. 

Overseas service brought Brig Gen Fly to the Western Sahara, serving as a Military Observer with the UN Observer Mission “MINURSO” from Oct 1995 to Apr 1996.

Logging over 5,500 flying hours experience, split equally between fixed-wing and helicopters, Brig Gen Fry qualified for the award of Military Parachutists “Wings” in Sept 2001 and has completed 20 jumps. He has flown a wide variety of military and civil aircraft in his career and was the Project Officer responsible for the specification, evaluation, selection and purchase of the replacement training aircraft fleet of eight PC9M and the associated type flight simulator. He held the appointment of General Officer Commanding the Air Corps and Director of Military Aviation for seven years, from 2010 until his retirement in 2017.