Aviation pictures - 1950s

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Aviation pictures 1950s


The much-missed viewing platform in the late 1950s

  • The forecourt in 1955

  • 1953 air display

  • 1953 air display

  • 1953 air display

  • BEA Dakota at the 1953 air display

  • 1952

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  • BEA Rapide

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  • An early BEA Viscount

  • A 'high density' Viscount 701 - Extra seats and less legroom for Channel Islands services

  • Flights to and from Jersey used Croydon Airport when Gatwick was closed for a period in the late 1950s

  • A Channel Airways Dove in 1959 - the smaller, two-engine version of the Heron

  • The Airport in 1950

  • This Dakota, built in 1944, was operated by British European Airways from 1950 to 1960

  • The grassy airfield in the early 1950s

  • 1956

  • 1952

  • Jersey Airlines' 1958 timetable

A Jersey Airpines Heron crosses the Airport approach road before landing towards the west in the 1950s

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  • 1950s

  • A waterlogged grass landing strip in February 1951

  • April 1950:A temporary shed was erected in the forecourt for passengers waiting for delayed flights

  • 1950s aerial view

  • An aerial view from a different angle

  • BEA Dakota

  • BEA Dakota

  • 1955 air rally

  • BEA Heron in 1951

  • An aerial view of the airport and its forecourt

  • Passengers disembark from a BEA Dakota

  • Resurfacing of the runway in 1952

  • An Avro Anson about to land

  • An Avro Anson on the beach

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • An amateur photograph of the forecourt in 1955

  • 1957

  • 1957

  • 1957

A British European Airways Heron over St Aubin's Bay in 1951. The airline commissioned similar air-to-air photographs of its various aircraft over Jersey during the early 'fifties

  • This unusual aircraft in front of the terminal building in 1951 was a Miles Aerovan of Channel Islands Air Freight

  • Passengers board a British European Airways Dakota flight from Northolt to Jersey in the 1950s

  • Boarding a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Rapide

  • Airport fire engine in the 1950s

  • BEA Rapide

  • Transair hostesses in the late 1950s

  • BEA Dakotas

  • A BEA Dakota on the apron

  • BEA Elizabethan in the 1950s

  • BEA engineering staff in the 1950s

  • A Sunderland flying boat in St Aubin's Bay in 1950

  • Airport approach in the early 1950s

  • Channel Airways Viking in 1951

  • An aerial view of Jersey Airport in the early 1950s

  • 1951 aerial view

  • BEA Heron over the Harbour

  • Cambrian Airways Dakota

  • Airport control tower in the fifties

  • Jersey Airlines Bristol 170 in 1957, chartered from Aer Lingus

  • Jersey Airlines 1952

  • Jersey Airlines Rapide

  • Jersey Airlines hostess

  • 1953 air display

  • 1950

The Huelin family chartered an aircraft for a holiday in France after a bumper potato season in 1951

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • Loading Jersey cattle for export to the USA

  • Jersey Airlines brochure

  • French publicity for Jersey Airlines

  • Jersey Airlines Parade office in 1951

  • Jersey Airlines founder Maldwyn Thomas with pilot Capt Newman

  • Jersey Airlines Rapide

  • BEA Viscount 802 in early livery

  • Rue Rose

  • Airport terminal

  • Pyrene fire appliance

  • Vickers Viking

  • Jersey Airlines DC3

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • The Heron was a popular post-war commercial aircraft

  • The newspaper plane crashes in February 1951

  • One of the hangars at night in 1951

  • The terminal in 1951

  • A de Havilland Heron over Mont Orgueil

  • The inaugural flight from Paris in 1951

  • This DH89a Rapide belonging to Morton Air Services crashed in 1951

  • The aircraft survived and was eventually re-registered in Norway and Sweden

  • BEA Elizabethan

  • BEA tourism advert

BEA's Jersey maintenance crew in the 1950s

  • BEA Dakota in 1955

  • Experimental turboprop Dakota carrying freight in 1952

  • BEA Pionair in 1954

  • The interior of the Pionair

  • A BEA Pionair in Jersey

  • BEA Rapide in 1954

  • The last BEA Rapide flight out of Jersey in 1955

  • BEA Rapide in 1957

  • The interior of a Rapide

  • BEA Viking

  • The Airport in 1959

  • A new generation of airliners, BEA Viscount 701 in 1953

  • The larger Viscount 802

  • Marking the new tarmac runway in 1952

  • Surfacing the runway in 1952

  • The new tarmac runway

  • The airport from the northeast in 1952

  • The terminal in 1952

  • THe 1952 air display

  • An Elizabethan in 1952 - one of the most beautiful aircraft to land in Jersey

  • Airspeed Ambassador, called Elizabethan by British European Airways

  • British European Airways Elizabethan

  • Luxury for Elizabethan passengers

  • An Airspeed Ambassador in BKS colours

The airport lounge in 1958

  • British European Airways Dakota and Elizabethan

  • Cambrian Airways routes brochure

  • Cambrian Dakota crew

  • A Cambrian Dakota on the apron at Jersey Airport

  • Derby Airways Dakota

  • Derby Airways Dakota

  • Landing lights at the western end of the runway

  • A North American Tornado at the 1952 air display

  • The airport in 1952 with Pine Farm in the foreground

  • The spectators terrace in the 1950s

  • A Heron of the Queen's Flight

  • A Republic Thunderstreak at the 1953 air display

  • Heron and prototype Viscount on the apron in 1953

  • An S51 helicopter at the 1953 display

  • The 1953 air display

  • People queue to see inside the Elizabethan

  • The 1953 display

  • A Rapide between two Ambassadors

  • The airport apron in 1953

  • The Airport in 1953

  • Airport hangar in 1953. Aero Club trainers on the left share the space with a vintage jet and Westland helicopter

  • A jet overflies the Airport during the 1953 air display

  • A US Army Air Force Bell helicopter at the 1953 air display

  • The Patrouille d'Etampe, a formation team flying Stampe biplanes at the 1953 air display

A British European Airways Dakota in the early 1950s

  • A Stampe biplane shows off over a British European Airways Dakota in 1953

  • Thornycroft Sun fire appliance

  • Thornycroft Sun fire appliance

  • This Rapide which tipped up on the apron in about 1955 went on to fly the last Rapide service from Lands End to the Scilly Isles in 1963

  • The Rapide is righted

  • A dented nose shows clearly after the accident

  • A refuelling tanker at Jersey Airport

  • A De Havilland Heron flying over Jersey

  • A BKS Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Derby Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Silver City Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Jersey phonecard depicting the Dakota

  • A Dakota in Jersey Airlines livery. They called it the Dakmaster

  • Flying over Corbiere

  • A British European Airways Dakota alongside the terminal

  • British United Airways Heron

  • Jersey Airlines Herons

  • Jersey Airlines Herons in front of the enlarged terminal building

  • The apron in the mid-50s

  • A Jersey Airlines Heron at Coventry Airport

  • De Havilland Heron

  • British European Airways Heron

  • A postcard of the airport terminal

  • The 1954 air rally

The control tower in 1955

  • The forecourt in 1954

  • The terminal in 1954

  • An aerial view from 1955

  • Another 1955 aerial view

  • The lounge in 1955

  • Jersey Airlines staff had new uniforms in 1956

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  • A heavy landing in 1956

  • An Elizabethan with collapsed undercarriage in 1956

  • The enlarged terminal building in 1956

  • The forecourt in 1956

  • The terminal in 1956

  • The enlarged terminal in 1956

  • The runway is extended in 1956

  • The approach from the sea in 1956

  • The terminal building in 1957

  • Car parking problems emerged in 1958

  • The forecourt in 1958

  • A prototype Viscount at the 1959 air display at Jersey Airport

  • The instrument landing system in 1959

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  • A British European Airways Dakota in flight

  • A BKS Dakota in Jersey in 1957

  • A brochure for the BKS Elizabethan

The Airport in the 1950s

  • A Jersey Airlines Heron boarding in 1958

  • Jersey Airlines Bristol freighter

  • Silver City freighter

  • A Canberra bomber on the ground at the 1956 air display

  • Runway extension in 1959

  • A flight bulletin for Ambassador passengers in 1957

  • Dan Air Ambassador

  • An early BEA Viscount in the 1950s

  • Loading baggage

  • A 1959 advertisement in German for the De Havilland Heron. The picture was taken from the waiting lounge at the Airport

  • 1958

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  • British European Airways coach outside the Weighbridge town terminal in 1955

  • Jersey Airlines coach in 1955

  • Viscount 802 in 1959

  • From a Jersey Airlines Heron brochure

  • Aerial view in the 1950s

  • Advert for the Airport restaurant in 1950

  • Check-in area in the 1950s

  • BEA Dakota

  • BEA Dakota

  • A BEA Heron over St Helier in the 1950s

  • A Chings cigarette card

The refurbished Airport terminal building in 1958 - picture Evening Post

  • A Percival Petrel in the 1950s

  • Public viewing gallery

  • Part of an early air display

  • BEA Elizabethan in July 1953

  • Coronation Air Display, 1953

  • Dakotas in 1958

  • A DC-6 arrives to collect cattle for export in the late 1950s

  • A DC-6 collecting cattle for export in the late 1950s

  • Work starts on laying the first tarmacadam runway

  • Construction of Hangar 3

  • A Bristol Superfreighter in 1957

  • BEA Viscount in the 1950s

  • BEA Viscount

  • BEA Viscount

  • A flight from Jerseyon the opening of Dinard Airport in 1950

  • BEA Rapide

  • BEA Rapide

  • The original aero club building

  • Original aero club

  • BEA Dakota

  • Ambassador interior

  • Airport forecourt

  • Ambassadors

  • 1956 - a V-bomber attracts attention

  • An early air rally

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  • 1955
The start of a Rouge Bouillon School trip to Switzerland in 1955

  • A Percival Petrel and de Havilland Rapide behind

  • A Rapide is removed from the beach at La Haule after an emergency landing in 1951

  • BEA Heron in 1951

  • BEA Rapide and a visiting helicopter

  • Bristol Superfreighter

  • Baggage arrivals in the 1950s

  • Bristol Superfreighter loading for a flight to England

  • Bristol Freighter

  • The old aero club building

  • An air rally in the late 1950s

  • Hangar No 2

  • Channel Airways advert

  • 1950 advert

  • 1955 advert

  • An Ambassador is repaired after a heavy landing in 1956 ...

  • ... the team which investigated the accident

  • The Viscount first made an appearance in the 1950s

  • Biplanes in formation above a BEA Dakota in 1953

  • BEA Dakota

  • Jersey Airlines Bristol Freighter

  • A BKS Ambassador in 1957, still partly in the colours of previous owner BEA

  • BEA Dakota

  • Parking in front of the terminal in 1958

  • BEA Pionair

  • BEA Pionair

  • An Ambassador taxies past a Heron in 1959

  • Traffic lights where the main road used to cross Airport land

  • The car park in 1958

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  • A BEA flight bulletin from 1952

  • A Dakota refuelling

  • BEA 1957 advert

A busy apron in 1951

Approach road

The new road to the east of the Airport, Avenue de la Reine Elizabeth II, was constructed in 1952

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