The Irish Parachute Club is located in Clonbullogue, County Offaly, in the Republic of Ireland. The IPC was originally founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper Freddie Bond and began operations at Weston airfield, training several teams for international competition. During the harsh winter of 1962 the IPC was involved in parachuting emergency supplies to snowbound farms in the Wicklow Mountains. The club subsequently operated from a number of locations before establishing a base of operations at Edenderry in 1974, purchasing its first aircraft (a Cessna 172) in the same year. In 1983, the IPC purchased a Cessna 206 and moved to its current location in Clonbullogue in 1988. Recent years have seen dramatic developments, including the construction of hangars and other buildings, the purchase of a Pilatus PC-6 Porter turbine aircraft and the setting of several Irish skydiving records including a fifty one person formation in July 2008. The IPC operates on weekends and bank holidays and offers Tandem skydiving, Accelerated Freefall and static line training programmes.
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