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
 
1911
130
 
1912
214
 
1913
337
 
1914
313
 

The first 100 aviators awarded licences in Britain were as follows. Aviators emboldened are covered in Pigs Might Fly.

1
8 March 1910
John Moore-Brabazon
2
8 March 1910
Hon. Charles Rolls
3
5 April 1910
A Rawlinson
4
12 April 1910
  Cecil Grace
5
26 April 1910
  George Cockburn
6
26 April 1910
  Claude Grahame-White
7
24 May 1910
 

Alec Ogilvie

8
31 May 1910
  Mortimer Singer
9
7 June 1910
  Samuel Cody
10
7 June 1910
  Lancelot Gibbs
11
14 June 1910
  Hon. Maurice Egerton
12
14 June 1910
  James Radley
13
14 June 1910
  Hon. Alan Boyle
14
21 June 1910
  Armstrong Drexel
15
21 June 1910
  George Colmore
16
21 June 1910
  George Barnes
17
26 July 1910
  George Dawes
18
26 July 1910
  A V Roe
19
6 September 1910
  Arthur George
20
20 September 1910
  Richard Wickham
21
20 September 1910
  Francis McClean
22
11 October 1910
  Keith Davies
23
1 November 1910
  M Ducrocq
24
8 November 1910
  James Weir
25
8 November 1910
  Hugh Watkins
26
15 November 1910
  Clement Greswell
27
15 November 1910
  John Fulton
28
15 November 1910
  Leslie Macdonald
29
15 November 1910
  Richard Snowden-Smith
30
22 November 1910
  Horatio Barber
31
22 November 1910
  Tom Sopwith
32
22 November 1910
  Joseph Hammond
33
22 November 1910
  Sydney Smith
34
22 November 1910
  Archibald Low
35
29 November 1910
  Robert Fenwick
36
29 November 1910
  Andrew Board
37
29 November 1910
  Herbert Wood
38
6 December 1910
  Cecil Paterson
39
7 January 1911
  Bethell Bouwens
40
7 January 1911
  George Hynes
41
7 January 1911
  St Croix Johnstone
42
7 January 1911
  Henry Cook
43
7 January 1911
  Basil Barrington-Kennett
44
7 January 1911
  Paul Jezzi
45
7 January 1911
  Reginald Cammell
46
17 January 1911
  Oscar Morison
47
17 January 1911
  James Valentine
48
24 January 1911
  Henry Astley
49
24 January 1911
  Robert Macfie
50
24 January 1911
  Howard Pixton
51
24 January 1911
  Herbert Thomas
52
24 January 1911
  Sir Victor Sassoon
53
7 February 1911
  Geoffrey de Havilland
54
7 February 1911
  Daniel Conner
55
7 February 1911
  James Martin
56
14 February 1911
  Arthur Aitken
57
14 February 1911
  Charles Hubert
58
14 February 1911
  George Challenger
59
14 February 1911
  George Darroch
60
14 February 1911
  Archibald Knight
61
14 February 1911
  Collyns Pizey
62
14 February 1911
  Louis Maron
63
14 February 1911
  William Ewen
64
14 February 1911
  Gustav Hamel
65
28 February 1911
  Quinto Poggioli
66
4 April 1911
  Lewis Turner
67
25 April 1911
  Waldo Prentice
68
25 April 1911
  Eric Gordon England
69
25 April 1911
  Henry Fleming
70
25 April 1911
  Charles Turner
71
25 April 1911
  Charles Rumney Samson
72
25 April 1911
  Arthur Longmore
73
25 April 1911
  Wilfred Parke
74
2 May 1911
  Conway Jenkins
75
2 May 1911
  Reginald Gregory
76
2 May 1911
  Eugene Gerrard
77
2 May 1911
  Edward Fisher
78
9 May 1911
  Hubert Oxley
79
9 May 1911
  Harold Blackburn
80
9 May 1911
  Ronald Kemp
81
9 May 1911
  R W Philpott
82
9 May 1911
  W H Dolphin
83
9 May 1911
  C H Marks
84
9 May 1911
  Seaton Massy
85
9 May 1911
  Freddie Raynham
86
16 May 1911
  James Travers
87
9 May 1911
  Edward Hotchkiss
88
9 May 1911
  T C R Higgins
89
30 May 1911
  W D Beatty
90
30 May 1911
  R B Davies
91
30 May 1911
  Benny Hucks
92
6 June 1911
  Herbert Reynolds
93
13 June 1911
  Thomas Sebag-Montefiore
94
13 June 1911
  Harry Busteed
95
20 June 1911
  Frederick Sykes
96
27 June 1911
  G Higginbotham
97
27 June 1911
  Herbert Stanley-Adams
98
27 June 1911
  J W Pepper
99
27 June 1911
  Henry Salmet
100
4 July 1911
  Gordon Bell

Other early aviators covered in Pigs Might Fly:

122
29 August 1911
  Hilda Hewlett
199
26 March 1912
  Billy Hart
211
30 April 1912
  John Duigan
297
17 September 1912
  Harry Hawker

For further detail, see Wikipedia

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