Neil Williams (pilot)

After completing an engineering apprenticeship he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF), and was trained as a pilot in Canada, winning the course trophy and gaining his wings.

He gained another 'first' for Britain in the following year by reaching the finals of the FAI WAC, and in 1967, flying a standard two-seater Zlin Akrobat, he won the Biancotto Trophy.

In 1970 he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air,[1] when he successfully crash landed a Zlin after a wing folded during aerobatic training.

1974 was marked by the British teams' outright victory in the FAI European Aerobatic Championships and Neil's solo win in the Coupé Champion in France.

He was killed, along with three others, on 11 December 1977, when the CASA 2.111 he was ferrying from Cuatro Vientos Airport to the United Kingdom crashed in poor visibility into the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid.

CASA 2.111 (Spanish-built Heinkel He 111 ) of the type Williams was in when he was killed