Irish Parachute Club

Infobox Airport
name = Clonbullogue airfield
nativename = Irish Parachute Club
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IATA = N/A
ICAO = EICL
type = Private
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city-served = Edenderry, Portarlington, Rathangan, Kildare
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elevation-f = 190
elevation-m = 58
coordinates = Coord|53|14|58|N|07|07|24|W|type:airport
website = http://www.skydive.ie/
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r1-number = 090
r1-length-f = 2526
r1-length-m = 770
r1-surface = Grass
r2-number = 270
r2-length-f = 2526
r2-length-m = 770
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footnotes = no lighting, no fuel

The Irish Parachute Club is located in Clonbullogue, County Offaly, in the Republic of Ireland. The IPC was originally founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper Freddie Bond and began operations at Weston airfield, training several teams for international competition. During the harsh winter of 1962 the IPC was involved in parachuting emergency supplies to snowbound farms in the Wicklow Mountains. The club subsequently operated from a number of locations before establishing a base of operations at Edenderry in 1974, purchasing its first aircraft (a Cessna 172) in the same year. In 1983, the IPC purchased a Cessna 206 and moved to its current location in Clonbullogue in 1988. Recent years have seen dramatic developments, including the construction of hangars and other buildings, the purchase of a Pilatus PC-6 Porter turbine aircraft and the setting of several Irish skydiving records including a fifty one person formation in July 2008.The IPC operates on weekends and bank holidays and offers Tandem skydiving, Accelerated Freefall and static line training programmes.

Airfield

Clonbullogue Airfield has one grass strip runway 270/090 which is 770 m long and 18 m wide. [ [http://www.offaly.ie/offalyhome/visitoffaly/Towns/Clonbullogue.htm Clonbullogue village information] - [http://www.offaly.ie Offaly County Council] website] The club intends to fully tarmac its current runway by the end of this year (2008). [ [http://www.skydive.ie/about/ "About IPC"] - [http://www.skydive.ie Irish Parachute Club] website]

See also

*Drop zone
*Parachuting

External links

* [http://www.skydive.ie/ Irish Parachute Club and Skydiving Centre]
* [http://www.thepai.ie/ Parachute Association of Ireland Ltd.]
* [http://www.flyinginireland.com/airports.htm#EICL www.flyinginireland.com] with information on Clonbollogue airfield.

YouTube video links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzIzwnwKHeM IPC Promo]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrN0Ra5hdn4 Skydive Promo] - (by the IPC)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKCbWU_77AA My Parachute Jump!] - (at Clonbullogue)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-tnXHBkDrI Skydive August 2006] at the IPC
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTA7Mvmy77s 30 way formation] at the IPC
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SPPkM4a7x0 51 way formation] at the IPC

References