In Britain aviators were awarded their Aviator's Certificate (Pilot's Licence) by the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain. The number of licences awarded up until the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 were:
1910 |
38 |
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1911 |
130 |
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1912 |
214 |
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1913 |
337 |
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1914 |
313 |
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The first 100 aviators awarded licences in Britain were as follows. Aviators emboldened are covered in Pigs Might Fly.
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John Moore-Brabazon |
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Hon. Charles Rolls |
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A Rawlinson |
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Cecil Grace |
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George Cockburn |
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Claude Grahame-White |
7 |
24 May 1910 |
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Alec Ogilvie |
8 |
31 May 1910 |
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Mortimer Singer |
9 |
7 June 1910 |
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Samuel Cody |
10 |
7 June 1910 |
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Lancelot Gibbs |
11 |
14 June 1910 |
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Hon. Maurice Egerton |
12 |
14 June 1910 |
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James Radley |
13 |
14 June 1910 |
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Hon. Alan Boyle |
14 |
21 June 1910 |
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Armstrong Drexel |
15 |
21 June 1910 |
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George Colmore |
16 |
21 June 1910 |
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George Barnes |
17 |
26 July 1910 |
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George Dawes |
18 |
26 July 1910 |
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A V Roe |
19 |
6 September 1910 |
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Arthur George |
20 |
20 September 1910 |
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Richard Wickham |
21 |
20 September 1910 |
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Francis McClean |
22 |
11 October 1910 |
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Keith Davies |
23 |
1 November 1910 |
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M Ducrocq |
24 |
8 November 1910 |
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James Weir |
25 |
8 November 1910 |
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Hugh Watkins |
26 |
15 November 1910 |
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Clement Greswell |
27 |
15 November 1910 |
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John Fulton |
28 |
15 November 1910 |
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Leslie Macdonald |
29 |
15 November 1910 |
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Richard Snowden-Smith |
30 |
22 November 1910 |
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Horatio Barber |
31 |
22 November 1910 |
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Tom Sopwith |
32 |
22 November 1910 |
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Joseph Hammond |
33 |
22 November 1910 |
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Sydney Smith |
34 |
22 November 1910 |
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Archibald Low |
35 |
29 November 1910 |
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Robert Fenwick |
36 |
29 November 1910 |
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Andrew Board |
37 |
29 November 1910 |
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Herbert Wood |
38 |
6 December 1910 |
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Cecil Paterson |
39 |
7 January 1911 |
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Bethell Bouwens |
40 |
7 January 1911 |
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George Hynes |
41 |
7 January 1911 |
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St Croix Johnstone |
42 |
7 January 1911 |
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Henry Cook |
43 |
7 January 1911 |
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Basil Barrington-Kennett |
44 |
7 January 1911 |
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Paul Jezzi |
45 |
7 January 1911 |
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Reginald Cammell |
46 |
17 January 1911 |
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Oscar Morison |
47 |
17 January 1911 |
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James Valentine |
48 |
24 January 1911 |
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Henry Astley |
49 |
24 January 1911 |
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Robert Macfie |
50 |
24 January 1911 |
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Howard Pixton |
51 |
24 January 1911 |
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Herbert Thomas |
52 |
24 January 1911 |
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Sir Victor Sassoon |
53 |
7 February 1911 |
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Geoffrey de Havilland |
54 |
7 February 1911 |
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Daniel Conner |
55 |
7 February 1911 |
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James Martin |
56 |
14 February 1911 |
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Arthur Aitken |
57 |
14 February 1911 |
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Charles Hubert |
58 |
14 February 1911 |
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George Challenger |
59 |
14 February 1911 |
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George Darroch |
60 |
14 February 1911 |
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Archibald Knight |
61 |
14 February 1911 |
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Collyns Pizey |
62 |
14 February 1911 |
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Louis Maron |
63 |
14 February 1911 |
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William Ewen |
64 |
14 February 1911 |
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Gustav Hamel |
65 |
28 February 1911 |
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Quinto Poggioli |
66 |
4 April 1911 |
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Lewis Turner |
67 |
25 April 1911 |
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Waldo Prentice |
68 |
25 April 1911 |
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Eric Gordon England |
69 |
25 April 1911 |
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Henry Fleming |
70 |
25 April 1911 |
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Charles Turner |
71 |
25 April 1911 |
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Charles Rumney Samson |
72 |
25 April 1911 |
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Arthur Longmore |
73 |
25 April 1911 |
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Wilfred Parke |
74 |
2 May 1911 |
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Conway Jenkins |
75 |
2 May 1911 |
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Reginald Gregory |
76 |
2 May 1911 |
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Eugene Gerrard |
77 |
2 May 1911 |
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Edward Fisher |
78 |
9 May 1911 |
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Hubert Oxley |
79 |
9 May 1911 |
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Harold Blackburn |
80 |
9 May 1911 |
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Ronald Kemp |
81 |
9 May 1911 |
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R W Philpott |
82 |
9 May 1911 |
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W H Dolphin |
83 |
9 May 1911 |
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C H Marks |
84 |
9 May 1911 |
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Seaton Massy |
85 |
9 May 1911 |
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Freddie Raynham |
86 |
16 May 1911 |
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James Travers |
87 |
9 May 1911 |
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Edward Hotchkiss |
88 |
9 May 1911 |
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T C R Higgins |
89 |
30 May 1911 |
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W D Beatty |
90 |
30 May 1911 |
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R B Davies |
91 |
30 May 1911 |
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Benny Hucks |
92 |
6 June 1911 |
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Herbert Reynolds |
93 |
13 June 1911 |
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Thomas Sebag-Montefiore |
94 |
13 June 1911 |
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Harry Busteed |
95 |
20 June 1911 |
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Frederick Sykes |
96 |
27 June 1911 |
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G Higginbotham |
97 |
27 June 1911 |
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Herbert Stanley-Adams |
98 |
27 June 1911 |
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J W Pepper |
99 |
27 June 1911 |
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Henry Salmet |
100 |
4 July 1911 |
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Gordon Bell |
Other early aviators covered in Pigs Might Fly:
122 |
29 August 1911 |
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Hilda Hewlett |
199 |
26 March 1912 |
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Billy Hart |
211 |
30 April 1912 |
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John Duigan |
297 |
17 September 1912 |
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Harry Hawker |
For further detail, see Wikipedia