Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron

Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron
Active	2015-present
Role	Training, Recruiting
Part of	No. 6 Flying Training School
Garrison/HQ	Aldergrove Flying Station
Equipment	Grob Tutor T1

Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron is a University Air Squadron connected to the Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Incidents

• On Sunday 5 March 1950, 1.25pm, Proctor 'NP389' crashed at Sydenham, with Flying Officer Sidney Thomas Bryans, aged 30, of 84 Northland Road, Derry, who attended Foyle College, with William Angus Lister Morrison, aged 21, of Killowen, and Ernest Harold Porter, aged 21, studied engineering, of 418 Lisburn Road, Belfast, who died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast after five minutes, who attended the Methodist College Belfast
• On Sunday 30 May 1954 at Loughgall at 4.25pm, Harvard 'KF751' crashed, with Brian McClay, aged 24, of White Lodge on Balmoral Avenue, who gained a Mechanical Engineering degree in 1953
• On Wednesday 3 March 1976 XX612 crashed at Balloo, County Down, after taken off from RAF Sydenham
• Squadron Leader Robert John Burge, on a training flight, was killed on Friday 16 October 1992. He had been the commanding officer for only two weeks. The other occupant survived, a female. He was the son of John and Brenda from Birkdale. He had taken off from Belfast City Airport. The aircraft crashed at Comber. The occupants were taken to Ulster Hospital.