Membership application guidance

To apply for membership, or the upgrading of your current membership status, please fill out and submit the membership application form.

For Student Affiliate Membership use the student membership application form.

Please note the following when completing your application:

Applicant Details

• Designations are the letters (e.g. BSc, OBE, etc) after your name.
• If retired or self-employed, please indicate this in the EMPLOYER block.
• Copies of academic qualifications awarded in the UK are not required if you are applying for Membership only. However, a copy of each page in a pilot or EASA / CAA license is required.
• Copies of academic qualifications awarded outside the UK are required together with a detailed results sheet to show grades/subjects taken. A translation of all the documents must be provided if they are not in English and legal evidence of any change in your surname if it has changed since you obtained them.

Professional Referees

• The two referees should be known in a professional capacity (e.g. member of the Society or a line manager); the Society reserves the right to contact them about any statement in the application. If applying for FRAeS, the referees should be Fellows of the Society (or hold a similar level of membership in another professional body).

Applicant’s Declaration

• Please note the last sentence, “I accept the Society reserves the right to terminate my membership if any of the information in this form and any accompanying documentation are found to be false”. When the committee of membership experts meets, a random selection of applicants will be asked to provide copies of their qualifications or to verify aspects of their jobs; please be ready to give this information.

What happens after the Society receives your application?

• An email will be sent to confirm receipt. If necessary, additional information may be requested.
• The AeSSA local council meets every month whereupon the application is recommended to the RAeS. The AeSSA’s Grading Committee is responsible for deciding the most appropriate grade for each applicant and whether they should proceed to interview for registration for ECUK (if applicable). ECUK meets every two months; dates of the meetings are given in www.aerosociety.com. Please note applications approved for FRAeS have also to be endorsed by the Society’s Council.
• Once successful applicants for membership have been invoiced and have paid the appropriate fee, a certificate of election will be issued and names of elected members are published in The Aerospace Professional.
• Details of applicants who successfully pass the interview for registration are forwarded to EC.
• Applicants not approved for the grade requested will be provided with feedback to this effect.