Welcome to the upgraded ap254.com. The site may look roughly the same, but it has been re-written from scratch so that it can be updated more easily and so that it loads a lot faster.Welcome to the upgraded ap254.com. The site may look roughly the same, but it has been re-written from scratch so that it can be updated more easily and so that it loads a lot faster.

Certain things might not look quite right, as you may have seen on the temporary homepage, there are issues with the way the webpage appears in different browsers, which is a common problem. If you are using Firefox, everything should look good, if you are using Internet Explorer, it probably doesn't. Feel free to click the Firefox button that you'll see at the bottom of most pages and upgrade though, it's worth it. We'll be 'fixing' these problems as we can (in other words, on the days that it's raining and we can't go flying). The problems are purely cosmetic, so you shouldn't be missing out on anything.
New features, such as the video page will also be appearing soon, the new gallery is working now and we'll hopefully start putting some new pictures in there soon.

Enjoy and let us know what you think in the comments!

My God when will these 254 birthdays ever end? They just go on and on, I know there is only 24 of them on the course but they must have had 25 birthdays already this month! I didn't spent 3 years at Cambridge doing English and then join the prestigious National Union of Journalists too toil out this constant stream of happy birthday crap. Why can't I be a proper journalist like John Simpson and liberate Kabul or be like Kate Adie and be airstriked (yes it is a word I checked it in my George W Bush Dictionary of English) by the Americans?
Editor: Just write what your told and stop pretending your important otherwise I won't sign off your expenses.
Sorry boss. It's time to wish your favourite former sailor Mark Corbett a very happy 32nd birthday. Mark, 38 will be celebrating his birthday in the run up to his IR. Mark, on behalf of all on AP254 we would like to wish you a very happy 56th birthday!

Thats right, its been all ice cubes and fleeces this morning as Mikael 'Artic Monkey' Jacobsen celebrates his Thats right, its been all ice cubes and fleeces this morning as Mikael 'Artic Monkey' Jakobsen celebrates his 24th birthday. Mikael, on behalf of AP254 we would like to wish you a very happy birthday and look forward to celebrating with you later. And now all that remains to do is to reveal the embarassing photo. Job sorted! Happy birthday!

AP254 would like to celebrate the birthday of their esteemed colleague Pierce Goodyear Blythe aka Dave AP254 would like to celebrate the birthday of their esteemed colleague Pierce Goodyear Blythe aka Dave 'DingDong' Bell. Dave who acquired his course nickname after a desire to acquire a lasting memory of the airfields surrounding Goodyear will be celebrating his 25th birthday today.

Dave is pictured below during his recent B747 type rating course that he purchased for a very reasonable £29.95 inc VAT from ap254.com/shop. Order now and receive a free set of alloy wheels!

On behalf of AP254, Happy Birthday Dave!

Today saw the birthday of our favorite news reporter Mr Richard "Panda" Mallows - Happy Birthday!!Today saw the birthday of AP254's very own news reporter and all round good guy Richard Mallows or Panda as he is more commonly known.

The photo shows Panda (left) flanked by MI5's very own Adam Carter at the height a top secret clandestine operation during ground school. As you can see, Panda's identity has been hidden to protect his identity in future operations.

AP254 would like to wish our esteemed colleague a very Happy Birthday and thank him (and Commander Godding) for the copious amounts of champagne enjoyed by all in the Red Lion last night.

Many happy returns!