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Boustead
In a letter in Flight for 14 May 1910, Cedric Boustead,
writing from South Africa, stated he had designed and built a glider and “finished it a day before I sailed to South
Africa, so was unable to give it a fair trial, but it made a very successful short glide in Wimbledon Park”. With the
time to sail to South Africa and the letter to return, that flight would probably have occurred in February or March.
Cedric Boustead was almost certainly Reginald Cedric Boustead, born 17 June 1888 in Surbiton, Surrey, the son of
John Melvill Boustead and Leila Eleanor Money. Educated at Marlborough College, he was commissioned in the 3rd Duke of Edinburghs
Regiment. In 1915 whilst in Ceylon he was made a Captain in the Eighth Middlesex Regiment.
Post war, Cedric was
involved with the family company Boustead Bros., coffee, tea and rubber merchants, founded by his father J.M. Boustead in
Ceylon in 1886. Cedric managed the Colombo Electric Tramways, started by his father in 1895.
Captain Boustead
returned to England from Columbo on 2 August 1933, on the S.S. Otranto. He died on 19 Dec 1954 in Kixes, Sharpthorne, Sussex
Project Data 
Project No | Type
No | Name | Alternative Name(s) | Year | Spec | Status | Qty | Description | References | | | | Glider | | 1910 | | Proto | 1 | 1S biplane glider | 1,2 |
Project References - British Aircraft
Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
- Flight
May 14, 1910.
Total Boustead Production 1
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