The Royal Aeronautical Society is honoured to announce that His Majesty King Charles III has graciously agreed to become our Patron. His Majesty’s patronage underscores the Society’s commitment to the advancement of aeronautical art, science, and engineering around the world.
The Society are proud of our longstanding Royal association over the last century. In 1918 King George V awarded the “Royal” prefix to the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, which became the Royal Aeronautical Society. In 1920 Prince Albert, the Duke of York, later King George VI, became the Society’s Patron. Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II then assumed the role from her father. In 1966 HRH the Duke of Edinburgh became the Society’s Honorary President for the Society’s Centenary Year, followed in 2016 by the then Prince of Wales in the same role for the Society's 150th anniversary.
The Royal Aeronautical Society would like to thank His Majesty King Charles III for continuing to support and recognise the work of the Society across the fields of Aerospace, Aviation and Space.
The Society is the only global organisation serving the entire aviation and aerospace community as both a learned society and a professional engineering institution. As such, the RAeS is independent, evidence-based and authoritative, relying on a body of knowledge going back more than 150 years.