Aviation pictures - 1950s

Aviation pictures 1950s

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  The much-missed viewing platform in the late 1950s
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  The 1953 Coronation air display

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  The forecourt in 1955
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  1953 air display
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  1953 air display
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  1953 air display
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  BEA Dakota at the 1953 air display
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  BEA Rapide
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  An early BEA Viscount
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  A 'high density' Viscount 701 - Extra seats and less legroom for Channel Islands services
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  Flights to and from Jersey used Croydon Airport when Gatwick was closed for a period in the late 1950s
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  A Channel Airways Dove in 1959 - the smaller, two-engine version of the Heron
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  The Airport in 1950
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  This Dakota, built in 1944, was operated by British European Airways from 1950 to 1960
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  The grassy airfield in the early 1950s
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  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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  A waterlogged grass landing strip in February 1951
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  April 1950:A temporary shed was erected in the forecourt for passengers waiting for delayed flights
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  1950s aerial view
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  An aerial view from a different angle
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  BEA Dakota
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  BEA Dakota
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  1955 air rally
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  BEA Heron in 1951
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  An aerial view of the airport and its forecourt
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  Passengers disembark from a BEA Dakota
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  Resurfacing of the runway in 1952
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  An Avro Anson about to land
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  An Avro Anson on the beach
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  Jersey Airlines Heron
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  An amateur photograph of the forecourt in 1955
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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

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  This unusual aircraft in front of the terminal building in 1951 was a Miles Aerovan of Channel Islands Air Freight
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  Passengers board a British European Airways Dakota flight from Northolt to Jersey in the 1950s
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  Boarding a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Rapide
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  Airport fire engine in the 1950s
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  BEA Rapide
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  Transair hostesses in the late 1950s
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  BEA Dakotas
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  A BEA Dakota on the apron
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  BEA Elizabethan in the 1950s
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  BEA engineering staff in the 1950s
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  A Sunderland flying boat in St Aubin's Bay in 1950
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  Airport approach in the early 1950s
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  Channel Airways Viking in 1951
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  An aerial view of Jersey Airport in the early 1950s
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  1951 aerial view
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  BEA Heron over the Harbour
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  Cambrian Airways Dakota
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  Airport control tower in the fifties
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  Jersey Airlines Bristol 170 in 1957, chartered from Aer Lingus
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  Jersey Airlines 1952
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide
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  Jersey Airlines hostess
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  1953 air display
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The Huelin family chartered an aircraft for a holiday in France after a bumper potato season in 1951

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  Jersey Airlines Heron
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  Loading Jersey cattle for export to the USA
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  Jersey Airlines brochure
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  French publicity for Jersey Airlines
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  Jersey Airlines Parade office in 1951
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  Jersey Airlines founder Maldwyn Thomas with pilot Capt Newman
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide
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  BEA Viscount 802 in early livery
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  Rue Rose
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  Airport terminal
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  Pyrene fire appliance
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  Vickers Viking
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  Jersey Airlines DC3
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  Jersey Airlines Heron
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  The Heron was a popular post-war commercial aircraft
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  The newspaper plane crashes in February 1951
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  One of the hangars at night in 1951
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  The terminal in 1951
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  A de Havilland Heron over Mont Orgueil
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  The inaugural flight from Paris in 1951
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  This DH89a Rapide belonging to Morton Air Services crashed in 1951
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  The aircraft survived and was eventually re-registered in Norway and Sweden
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  BEA Elizabethan
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  BEA tourism advert

BEA's Jersey maintenance crew in the 1950s

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  BEA Dakota in 1955
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  Experimental turboprop Dakota carrying freight in 1952
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  BEA Pionair in 1954
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  The interior of the Pionair
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  A BEA Pionair in Jersey
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  BEA Rapide in 1954
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  The last BEA Rapide flight out of Jersey in 1955
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  BEA Rapide in 1957
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  The interior of a Rapide
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  BEA Viking
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  The Airport in 1959
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  A new generation of airliners, BEA Viscount 701 in 1953
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  The larger Viscount 802
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  Marking the new tarmac runway in 1952
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  Surfacing the runway in 1952
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  The new tarmac runway
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  The airport from the northeast in 1952
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  The terminal in 1952
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  THe 1952 air display
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  An Elizabethan in 1952 - one of the most beautiful aircraft to land in Jersey
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  Airspeed Ambassador, called Elizabethan by British European Airways
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  British European Airways Elizabethan
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  Luxury for Elizabethan passengers
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  An Airspeed Ambassador in BKS colours

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  The car park in 1958
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  The airport lounge in 1958

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  British European Airways Dakota and Elizabethan
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  Cambrian Airways routes brochure
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  Cambrian Dakota crew
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  A Cambrian Dakota on the apron at Jersey Airport
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  Derby Airways Dakota
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  Derby Airways Dakota
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  Landing lights at the western end of the runway
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  A North American Tornado at the 1952 air display
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  The airport in 1952 with Pine Farm in the foreground
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  The spectators terrace in the 1950s
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  A Heron of the Queen's Flight
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  A Republic Thunderstreak at the 1953 air display
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  Heron and prototype Viscount on the apron in 1953
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  An S51 helicopter at the 1953 display
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  The 1953 air display
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  People queue to see inside the Elizabethan
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  The 1953 display
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  A Rapide between two Ambassadors
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  The airport apron in 1953
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  The Airport in 1953
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  Airport hangar in 1953. Aero Club trainers on the left share the space with a vintage jet and Westland helicopter
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  A jet overflies the Airport during the 1953 air display
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  A US Army Air Force Bell helicopter at the 1953 air display
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  The Patrouille d'Etampe, a formation team flying Stampe biplanes at the 1953 air display

A British European Airways Dakota in the early 1950s

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  A Stampe biplane shows off over a British European Airways Dakota in 1953
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  Thornycroft Sun fire appliance
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  Thornycroft Sun fire appliance
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  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
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  The Rapide is righted
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  A dented nose shows clearly after the accident
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  A refuelling tanker at Jersey Airport
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  A De Havilland Heron flying over Jersey
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  A BKS Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport
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  A Derby Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport
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  A Silver City Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport
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  A Jersey phonecard depicting the Dakota
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  A Dakota in Jersey Airlines livery. They called it the Dakmaster
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  Flying over Corbiere
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  A British European Airways Dakota alongside the terminal
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  British United Airways Heron
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  Jersey Airlines Herons
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  Jersey Airlines Herons in front of the enlarged terminal building
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  The apron in the mid-50s
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  A Jersey Airlines Heron at Coventry Airport
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  De Havilland Heron
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  British European Airways Heron
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  A postcard of the airport terminal
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  The 1954 air rally

The control tower in 1955

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  The forecourt in 1954
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  The terminal in 1954
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  An aerial view from 1955
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  Another 1955 aerial view
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  The lounge in 1955
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  Jersey Airlines staff had new uniforms in 1956
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  A heavy landing in 1956
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  An Elizabethan with collapsed undercarriage in 1956
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  The enlarged terminal building in 1956
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  The forecourt in 1956
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  The terminal in 1956
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  The enlarged terminal in 1956
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  The runway is extended in 1956
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  The approach from the sea in 1956
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  The terminal building in 1957
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  The forecourt in 1958
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  A prototype Viscount at the 1959 air display at Jersey Airport
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  The instrument landing system in 1959
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  A British European Airways Dakota in flight
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  A BKS Dakota in Jersey in 1957
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  A brochure for the BKS Elizabethan

The Airport in the 1950s

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  A Jersey Airlines Heron boarding in 1958
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  Jersey Airlines Bristol freighter
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  Silver City freighter
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  A Canberra bomber on the ground at the 1956 air display
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  Runway extension in 1959
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  A flight bulletin for Ambassador passengers in 1957
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  Dan Air Ambassador
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  An early BEA Viscount in the 1950s
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  Loading baggage
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  A 1959 advertisement in German for the De Havilland Heron. The picture was taken from the waiting lounge at the Airport
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  British European Airways coach outside the Weighbridge town terminal in 1955
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  Jersey Airlines coach in 1955
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  Viscount 802 in 1959
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  From a Jersey Airlines Heron brochure
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  Aerial view in the 1950s
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  Advert for the Airport restaurant in 1950
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  Check-in area in the 1950s
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  BEA Dakota
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  BEA Dakota
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  A BEA Heron over St Helier in the 1950s
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  A Chings cigarette card

The refurbished Airport terminal building in 1958 - picture Evening Post

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  A Percival Petrel in the 1950s
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  Public viewing gallery
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  Part of an early air display
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  BEA Elizabethan in July 1953
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  Coronation Air Display, 1953
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  Dakotas in 1958
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  A DC-6 arrives to collect cattle for export in the late 1950s
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  A DC-6 collecting cattle for export in the late 1950s
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  Work starts on laying the first tarmacadam runway
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  Construction of Hangar 3
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  A Bristol Superfreighter in 1957
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  BEA Viscount in the 1950s
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  BEA Viscount
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  BEA Viscount
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  A flight from Jerseyon the opening of Dinard Airport in 1950
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  BEA Rapide
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  BEA Rapide
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  The original aero club building
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  Original aero club
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  BEA Dakota
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  Ambassador interior
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  Airport forecourt
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  Ambassadors
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  1956 - a V-bomber attracts attention
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  An early air rally
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  1955

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

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  A Percival Petrel and de Havilland Rapide behind
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  A Rapide is removed from the beach at La Haule after an emergency landing in 1951
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  BEA Heron in 1951
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  BEA Rapide and a visiting helicopter
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  Bristol Superfreighter
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  Baggage arrivals in the 1950s
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  Bristol Superfreighter loading for a flight to England
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  Bristol Freighter
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  The old aero club building
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  An air rally in the late 1950s
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  Hangar No 2
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  Channel Airways advert
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  1950 advert
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  1955 advert
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  An Ambassador is repaired after a heavy landing in 1956 ...
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  ... the team which investigated the accident
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  The Viscount first made an appearance in the 1950s
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  Biplanes in formation above a BEA Dakota in 1953
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  BEA Dakota
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  Jersey Airlines Bristol Freighter
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  A BKS Ambassador in 1957, still partly in the colours of previous owner BEA
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  BEA Dakota
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  BEA Pionair
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  BEA Pionair
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  An Ambassador taxies past a Heron in 1959
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  Traffic lights where the main road used to cross Airport land
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  A BEA flight bulletin from 1952
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  A Dakota refuelling
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  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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