The Malta Aviation Society committee is elected every two years during the bi-annual general meeting.  The present committee's term of office runs from 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2010.

The committee meets from time to time as required and the present committee is formed as following:

PAST COMMITTEE - 2007/2008

ALAN W HALL - PASSED AWAY & OBITUARY NOTICE

It is with great regret we have to announce the passing away of our current fellow Committee Member Alan W Hall. Alan was a gentleman and had a sterling aviation life and his loss will be sorely missed by his family and friends. Alan’s wishes were to be cremated and his ashes scattered out of an aircraft over Cambridge, UK, where Alan learnt to fly. Keep Alan in your thoughts. RIP.

HALL. On November 6, at Mater Dei Hospital, ALAN W. (committee member of the Malta Aviation Society), aged 80, passed away peacefully after a short illness. He leaves to mourn his sad loss his son Chris and his wife Kate, his daughter Alison and her husband Ali, granddaughters and grandsons, nephews, nieces, other relatives and friends. The funeral will be held in the UK at a later date yet to be announced. Lord, grant him eternal rest.

ALAN W HALL - APPRECIATION BY JOE CILIBERTI, PRESIDENT, MAS

Alan Hall resided in Malta for the past few years of his life. He made many friends while here but, typically, Alan already had many Maltese friends through his various publications read all over the world but particularly in Britain.

Alan was the first-ever editor of Airfix Magazine and went on to own the publication in later years which, at times, had a monthly circulation of 100,000. In the meantime, he had established his own business and started publishing the innovative Aviation News that came out in newspaper format. I remember as a young lad waiting by the corner stationery and enticing my father to buy me the fortnightly publication in order to increase my English language reading! Alan was also the man behind the very successful Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine. Who would have told me that Mr Hall would form part of my committee on the Malta Aviation Society so many years later?

The Malta Aviation Society has been extremely lucky in having Alan among us for many years. The same week he set foot in Malta he was in touch with the society to see how he can assist us in our public relations work, the air show and, most of all, to share with us his extraordinary experience in anything aviation. Suffice to say that Alan served in the Royal Air Force, was a lecturer at Stafford College of Art and was even the Royal Aircraft Establishment's PRO at Farnborough.

He brought in fresh ideas that the Malta Aviation Society gladly used.

His loss came as a shock to most of us but the magnitude of it was equally felt in Britain where he grew and lived until a few years ago. He was an inspiration to hundreds of editors, publishers, photographers and writers and certainly to me here and my team on the Malta air show.

Blue skies, Alan, and preferably in an Anson!