HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TRUST

Registered charity 1024043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Historic Aircraft Flight (HAF) Trust helps to preserve Historic Army Air Corps aircraft as a 'living museum' for veterans commemorative and memorial purposes, as an aid to recruiting and to supporting wider Army heritage in public. The Trust relies principally on donations. The fund is used to provide goods and services for the HAF that no longer available from or attributable to public funds.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF AVIATION IN THE ARMY AND TO EDUCATE THE MEMBERS THEREOF AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AVIATION HISTORY TRADITIONS AND EXPLOITS OF THE ARMY IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE IN FLYING ORDER OF THE ARMY'S HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT (HAF(T))

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trust is able to meet its financial obligations. The trustees report that the charity has continued to provide an environment for veteran volunteers to operate and maintain aircraft. The filing confirms that no material matters came to the examiner's attention during the review.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Historic Army Aircraft Flight (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HISTORIC AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TRUSTEE LTD

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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