The Western Province Sport Parachute Club (WPSPC) provides a facility for sports skydiving and student training and is operated and managed on a volunteer basis by a committee elected by its members. The club is a not-for-gain body corporate under common law. WPSPC was officially founded on 8 May 1972, the original operations base was at Modderfontein Farm near

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. Since July 2008 WPSPC has been based at

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just outside the town of

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, on

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's wine route - Route 62. The operation is now known as, trades as, and operates as, Skydive Robertson. 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of WPSPC.

Skydive Robertson

Skydive Robertson is a Parachute Association of South Africa (PASA) approved and registered drop zone, licensed for sports skydiving and student training. Operations are conducted under the supervision of a PASA approved Chief Instructor and in accordance with the PASA manual of procedures and part 105 of the

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Regulation.

Location

Skydive Robertson is located at

, 1 km to the east of the town of

in the

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's wine route - Route 62.

Operations

Skydive Robertson operates on weekends and public holidays and offers tandem skydiving, static line progression training, accelerated freefall progression training and provides a facility for sports skydivers.

History

The Western Province Sport Parachute Club (WPSPC) was officially founded on 8 May 1972. 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of WPSPC.

Skydive Citrusdal

The original WPSPC operations base was at Modderfontein Farm near

. The operation became known as Skydive Citrusdal. In December 2006 the farm was sold and the club had to relocate.

Skydive Ceres

In January 2007 WPSPC temporarily moved operations to

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