In 2014, Royal Queensland Aero Club provided flight training and rented aircraft for private operations.

[citation needed] Originally known as the Australian Aero Club (Queensland Section), RQAC was founded in 1910,[3][4] making it the oldest aviation organisation in the southern hemisphere.

[5] RQAC civil operations ceased in 1940 at the dawn of World War II with the assets being seconded to the Royal Australian Air Force No.

[6] The aero club continued to expand, building new premises in the mid-1960s, purchasing a new hangar in 1984 and creating an associated company, the Airline Academy of Australia in 2006.

[7] The Royal Queensland Aero Club has had many well-known members over the years, including Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Bert Hinkler, the first man to fly from England to Australia.