Constitution

Extract from the MSC Constitution

MATAMATA SOARING CENTRE INCORPORATED

The purposes of the Society are:

1.             To promote, develop, foster, and administer gliding, mainly as an amateur sport for the well-being, benefit, and recreation of the public in New Zealand.

2.             To organise, promote, encourage, run, and conduct flying meetings, camps, instructional courses, pageants, displays, contests, and occasions when flying is to be done in the vicinity of the airfield or other facilities so provided.

3.             To provide facilities and services for the operation and use of gliders and other aircraft; the refreshment, convenience, accommodation, of pilots and other persons connected with or interested in flying and the maintenance, repair, construction, servicing, fuelling, storage, and the handling of gliders, other aircraft, and auxiliary equipment.

4.             To liaise, consult, advocate, or engage with other organisations on matters which may affect the sport of gliding.

Current members are:

• Taranaki Gliding Club

• RNZAF Base Auckland Aviation Sports Club (Gliding Section)

• Auckland Gliding Club

• Tauranga Gliding Club

• Piako Gliding Club

• Taupo Gliding Club

Rules of the Matamata Soaring Centre may be downloaded from the link on this page.