The Dorset Gliding Club (DGC) is looking for a new team of volunteers to help support and maintain its fleet of vintage aircraft.

Based at Eyres Field off Puddletown Road between Wool and Bere Regis, the club boasts the largest collection of post-war gliders and aircraft in the area.

It has just taken delivery of a 1962 180hp Piper PA-18 Super Cub which it intends to use for glider launching and towing throughout the 2018 season.

The Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine, steel and fabric construction fixed wing monoplane. It was built at the Piper factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania USA in 1962 and arrived in the UK in 1966. It has been used for glider towing ever since.

A DGC spokesman said: "As a not for profit club DGC heavily relies upon and values its keen core of members who help support and maintain the aeroplanes.

"The DGC is welcoming and sociable and includes members from all age groups. While learning to glide and fly over south Dorset is one aspect, you don’t have to fly to be a valued member of the team. Volunteers who simply enjoy being with and working on aircraft make up an important part of the membership."

Interested people should drop in any Saturday or Sunday or visit dorsetglidingclub.co.uk for more information. Or call 07784 732648.