Airways Collection (page 3)

Imperial Airways City of Manchester aircraft, Croydon
Imperial Airways City of Manchester aircraft at Croydon Airport, prior to departure for Paris Date: 1930

Douglas DC-3S N1R (msn 4129) of the BROOKLYN DODGERS (Brooklyn National League Baseball Club), marked with Dodgers World Champions just behind the entry door

Vickers Viscount 812 - G-AVHE
Vickers Viscount 812 G-AVHE (msn 363), of Channel Airways at Southend Airport. Date: 1970

Avro 643 Mk. II Cadet VH-AGH
Avro 643 Mk.II Cadet VH-AGH (msn 990) of Marshall Airways in Australia Date: 1960s

Fleet 80 Canuck CF-EOH (msn 206) of Central Airways. Date: 1950s-1960s

British Airways B757 - G-BIKU
British Airways Boeing 757-236 - G-BIKU Date: 1986

Cover design, British Airways Summer Timetable 1938, as the crow flies, only faster! 1938

Advert / Air to Paris 1934
Imperial Airways to Paris and home again the same day! Date: 1934

Avro 685 York-shown is the first civilianised York delivered to British Overseas Airways Corporation in February 1944

Douglas DC-3 G-AGJV Derby Airways Gatwick 1961
Douglas DC-3 G-AGJV operated by Derby Airways at London Gatwick in June 1961 Date: 1961

Two Short S23 Empire flying boats, G-AETV Coriolanus and G-ADHM Caledonia, with a Sikorsky S42B, NC-16736 Pan American Clipper III, of Pan American Airways at Southampton

The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADVE
The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, leaving Southampton with the first Empire Mail for South Africa, 29 June 1937. [See also 56005474] Date: 1937

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat VH-ABF Cooee of Qantas
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, VH-ABF, Cooee, of Qantas (formerly G-AFBL of Imperial Airways)

Vickers Type 604 Viking 1 VP-YEW - Central African Airways
Vickers Type 604 Viking 1, VP-YEW, in Central African Airways markings

Two de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides, including VP-KCA, of Wilson Airways at Nairobi Airport

Engineers laying a new electric cable at Croydon Airport in March 1935. Among the aircraft in the background are Boulton & Paul P71A, G-ACOX, Boadicea, of Imperial Airways; Short L17, G-ACJJ

Photograph of a Handley Page H. P. 42
Photograph of a Handley Page H.P.42, a British four-engine biplane airliner used by Imperial Airways. Dated 20th Century

Service aboard Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ of Imperial Airways
Service aboard Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ, of Imperial Airways

Cabin of a Sikorsky S42 of Pan American Airways

Passenger salloon of a Sikorsky S40 of Pan American Airways

Taking aboard the first Empire Air Mail (Great Britain to South Africa) to be transported by Imperial Airways S23 C-Class flying boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, Southampton, 29 June 1937

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Sir Eric Geddes
Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB, GBE, PC (26 September 1875 - 22 June 1937), British businessman and Conservative politician

Pan Am Building and GrandPan Am Building at 200 Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal, NYC Central, NYC

Boeing 707-138B G-AVZZ (msn 17699) of Caribbean International airways at Newcastle Airport. Date: 1973

Boeing 737-204 G-AVRM (msn 19710) of Britannia Airways at Newcastle Airport (Woolsington). Date: 1970s

Airspeed AS. 57 Ambassador 2 G-AMAH
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 G-AMAH (msn 5230), Elizabethan Class airliner named RMA Sir Christopher Hatton, of British European Airways at Blackbushe Airport. Date: 1953

Boeing 737-204 G-AWSY (msn 20236) of Britannia Airways at Newcastle Airport (Woolsington). Date: 1970s

Croydon Airport - de Havilland DH. 89a Dragon Rapide G-AEXO
de Havilland DH.89a Dragon Rapide G-AEXO (msn 6368) of North Eastern Airways Ltd. approaching to land at Croydon Airport. G-AEXO was first registered on 19.05.37

Boeing 727-100 N489US of Union of Burma Airways Date: 1970s-1980s

Westland Whirlwind Series 1 G-ANFH and Bell 47B-3 G-AKFN
Westland Whirlwind Series 1 G-ANFH (msn WA15) at Gatwick. Built 1953 and delivered from Yeovil to Gatwick on 2 November 1954 for British European Airways

Vickers Super VC-10
Artists-Impression of a Future Super Vc-10 Airliner Concept - 10 of Which Were Ordered by Boac in June 1960 Date: 1960

Bristol B-175 Britannia 300
The First Boac Bristol Britannia Series 300 Date: 1950s

Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 3B
Bea Hawker Siddeley Hs-121 Trident 3B Flying on its First-Flight Date: 1970

Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21
Channel Airways Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21 with a White, Sun-Proof, Louvered Box Called a Stevenson Screen in the Foreground Date: 1960

Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E
Bea Hawker Siddeley Hs-121 Trident 2E Parked at the 1968 Farnborough-Airshow Static-Diaplay Date: 1968

Sikorsky S-51
Bea Helicopters British European Airways Sikorsky S-51 with Gpo Postmen Unloading the Mail Bags after a Royal Air Mail Service from Peterborough to Yarmouth Date: 1948

Bell 47J
Bea Helicopters British European Airways Bell 47J Flying Date: 1950s

Junkers Ju-86
South African Airways Saa Junkers Ju-86 Airliner Parked Date: 1940s

Handley Page HPR-7 Dart Herald
Bea Handley Page Hpr-7 Dart Herald Airliner Date: 1960s

Vickers Vanguard
The First-Flight Take-Off of a Bea Vickers Vanguard from Weybridge / Brooklands Date: 1959

Vickers VC-1 Viking 1A
Bea Vickers Vc-1 Viking 1A Airliner Flying Date: 1940s

de Havilland DH-114 Heron
Bea de Havilland Dh-114 Heron Regional Airliner Flying a Cloud Level Date: 1952

de Havilland DH-89A Dragon Rapide
Bea de Havilland Dh-89A Dragon Rapide Biplane Airliner Parked on Snow Date: 1940s

Douglas DC-3 Dart Dakota
Bea Express Air Freight Douglas Dc-3 Dart Dakota Date: 1950s

Avro 691 Lancastrian 3
The British South American Airways Bsaa Avro Lancastrian G-Agwh Named Stardust That Mysteriously Disappeared on 2 August 1947 in the Andes Mountains, in Chile, Having Crashed. Date: 1946

Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1C
A Bea Trident 1C Making an Automatic Final-Approach and Landing at Gatwick During Autoland Trials Date: 1960s

Martin M-130 China Clipper
A Pan Am Martin M-130 China Clipper Flying over the Sea Date: 1936

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