Chief Test Pilots
- Francis McClean (honorary) until 1912
- Gordon Bell 1912–1914
- Sydney Pickles 1913 (Acting CTP during Bell's absence following a crash at Brooklands)
- Ronald C. Kemp 1914–1918
- John Lankester Parker 1918–1945
- Geoffrey Dyson 1945–1946
- Harold Piper 1946–1948
- Tom Brooke-Smith 1948–1960
- Denis Tayler 1960–1969
- Donald Burn Wright 1969–1976
- Lindsay Cummings
- Allan Deacon
- Graham Andrews
- Jack Eaton 1984–present
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