Cecil Pashley was born in the Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 14 May 1891 to parents Alexander and Cecilia (Ryan). He learned to fly in 1908 and, in partnership with his younger brother Eric, established a flight training school at Shoreham Airport in 1913 when they founded the South Coast Flying club. Cecil's two brothers were both killed during the First World War; Herbert was a 2nd lieutenant observation balloon officer and died on Christmas Day in 1916, whilst Eric was a lieutenant flying Airco DH.2s with 24 SquadronRoyal Flying Corps and died in an accident on 17 March 1917.
One of Pashley's students was F. G. Miles with whom he later founded the Southern Aero Club which remained in business after his death.
In 1962 "Pash" (as he was popularly known) was presented with a special silver medal to mark his 50 years of active flying, which spanned the early days of aviation to the jet age, over which he had logged an astonishing 18,900 hours (13,000 of them on instruction) and had taught about 1600 people to fly.[2]
Cecil Lawrence Pashley died on 10 December 1969, aged 78, at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham.
A proportion of his personal archive has been purchased by the West Sussex Record Office.[3]
A road at Shoreham Airport and a Brighton & Hove bus were been named after him.
^Fifty Years of Active Flying, Birmingham Daily Post, 14 Sep 1962, p31
^(PDF). West Sussex Record Office. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2006.
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