TEAM NEWS
TEAM PHOENIX are delighted to announce a sponsorship deal with The Douglas Bader Foundation. This marvellous charity supported the team in its previous incarnation as Bader’s Bus Company. The support that the foundation has provided will help to provide the high level of flying training required to operate displays to the highest standards of excitement & safety.

Team Phoenix have recently been featured in the latest publication of GA Buyer. Read the article here:
https://issuu.com/worldaviation/docs/ga_buyer_may_2022?fr=sMzdlMDQxNjQxNTU

• The team will commence training up their display in Summer 2021 under the tutelage of Jez Hopkinson, Team leader & owner of the Yakovlevs UK Air display Team and Display Authorisation Examiner.
  
  
• Spitfire Display pilot Test Pilot and Rolls Royce Head of Flight Operations Phill O’Dell will act as an associate advisor to the team.
  
  

JEZ HOPKINSON Jez Hopkinson will offer tutelage & has undertaken the position of mentor and aviation ambassador for Team Phoenix. Jez is the teamleader and owner of The Yakovlevs Air Display Team. The Yakovlevs are a 6 ship formation aerobatic display team & one of the most established air display acts in the world.  Jez is one  of the UK’s  most experienced air display team leaders having led the Yakovlevs for 20 years where he has flown over 2000 displays. He is a UK CAA Display Authorisation Examiner & has undertaken to train the team to stringent UK display standards this spring and summer at Henstridge Airfield in North Dorset.