Aviation pictures - 1960s

Aviation pictures 1960s

An enlarged terminal building at the end of the 1960s

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  Jersey Airlines hangar
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  The apron, circa 1960
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  The apron in the 1960s
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  Handley Page's Herald demonstrator on its first visit to Jersey, probably in early 1960. Jersey Airlines were lent this aircraft pending the delivery of their first Herald ordered
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  This light aircraft was blown upside down in a storm on 19 October 1961
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  1962
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  A Bristol freighter outside the BUA hangar
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  1960s extension under way
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  The terminal in the 1960s
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  Passengers leave a Viscount in 1962 ...
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  ... Easter 1962 - another picture received three years later and clearly taken on the same day
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  Jersey European Airways Viscount
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  19670s
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  A superfreighter lands
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  BEA Viscount in the early 1960s
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  BEA Viscount later in the 1960s
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  Viking in 1960
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  1960 Viking
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  Chings cigarette card of the Airport in the 1960s
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  Jersey Airlines luggage label
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  Cambrian Airways DC3
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  Jersey Airlines Bristol 170 in 1960
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  Jersey Airlines 1960 brochure
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  Jersey Airlines 1960 brochure
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  Jersey Airlines 1960 brochure
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  Jersey Airlines Heron in 1960
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  Jersey Airlines' first Herald in 1961
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  Jersey Airlines Heron in 1960
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide in 1960
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide in 1960
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  Arrivals 1962
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  Snow in 1962

Viscounts on the apron with air rally competitors behind

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  Channel Airways Viking in 1960
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  BEA Viscount, 1960
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  BKS Dakota, 1960
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  Derby Airways Dakota, 1960
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  Jersey Airlines Dakota, 1960
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  Channel Airways Dove, 1960
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  Jersey Airlines Heron, 1960
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  Jersey Airlines Heron, 1960
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  Eagle Airways Viking, 1960
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  Air Atlantique DC3
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  Dan Air Airspeed Ambassador with BEA Viscount behind
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  Departures lounge, 1965
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  Apron, 1965
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  Apron, 1965
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  Airport plan, 1964
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  1960s
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  1968
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  Approaching the Airport from the east

A busy day in 1962 - Picture Evening Post

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  Jersey Airlines Herald
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  1961 Herald advertisement
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  1967 aerial photograph
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  Jersey European Viscount
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  Rousseau Aviation Dakota
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  BEA maintenance crew in the 1960s
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  1968 aerial view
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  Post vans wait in front of the main hangar
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  Airport approach
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  Unloading mail in the 1960s
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  Silver City Freighter
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  1965
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  1965
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  1965
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  Passengers walk to their departing aircraft in 1962
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  The approach road from Les Quennevais in 1965

Check-in desks in the 1960s

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  Silver City Superfreighter
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  1961
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  Silver City freighter in 1961
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  Derby Airways Dakota in 1961
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  St Brelade’s Bay in 1961
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  A Derby Airways Dakota which crashed in the Pyrenees killing all on board within weeks of this picture being taken in Jersey
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  A Viscount and Viking in front of the terminal building
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  Jersey Airlines Heron
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  The terminal building in the early '60s
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  The wreckage of a Percival Proctor in 1960
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  A BKS Britannia used for weekend flights in the 1960s
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  Air Anglia Dakota
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  1963 flight bulletin
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  Crashed Percival Proctor
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  Bristol Superfreighter, 1967
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  1964
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  BEA Viscount, 1964

1967 aerial view

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  Clearing snow in the forecourt in 1962
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  BEA Viscount
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  Jersey Airlines Dakota
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  Dan Air Heron
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  A Viscount in front of the airport buildings
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  Channel Airways Viscount
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  Channel Airways Viscount
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  Channel Airways Dakota
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  Channel Airways Avro 748
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  A Viscount in the colours of Channel Airways
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  A Jersey Air Ferries Viscount at Manchester Airport
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  Cattle being loaded for export in 1969
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  The wreck of the Dakota which crashed in fog in 1965
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  Work on Jersey Airport's runway meant that passengers had to be taken by helicopter to Guernsey to catch London flights in 1965-66
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  BEA helicopter in 1965
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  Before the 1969 enlargement
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  The control tower
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  The road layout in the 1960s
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  Channel Airways postcard
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  An aerial view of the Airport in 1968
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  The Airport in 1968
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  British European Airways Viscount
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  Aer Lingus routes
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  Vickers Viscount

Airfield control in 1969

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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  Construction work in 1969
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  The control tower
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  The framework of the new control tower
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  Steelwork for the 1969 extension
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  The departure gates
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  The airport restaurant in 1969
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  After the 1969 enlargement
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  The baggage hall in the 1960s
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  BEA Viscount
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  BEA Viscount at Jersey in 1966
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  Channel Airways Dove
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  Dan Air Ambassadeur in 1965
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  Jersey European Viscount
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  Bristol Superfreighter
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  Bristol Superfreighter

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

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  BUA Superfreighter
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  Dan Air Ambassador in 1965
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  Morton Airways Heron
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  Loading the Silver City Freighter
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  Jersey Airlines Dakota
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  The Jersey Airlines fleet
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  Jersey Airlines pilots meet the Queen when Gatwick Airport is reopened
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  Jersey Airlines Heron
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  Jersey Airlines hostesses in 1968
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide
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  Jersey Airlines Rapide
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  Jersey Airlines Timetable
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  A flight bulletin for Gracie Fields
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  An early Jersey Airlines charter to St Brieuc
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  Two Jersey Airlines Dakotas on the ground in Exeter
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  BUA BAC 1-11
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  Cambrian Airways Viscount
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  The old aero club, demolished to make way for taxiway improvements
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  British Air Ferries advertisement
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  Check-in desks in the 1960s
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  Vegetable exports by air
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  1969
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  Autair Ambassador
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  BEA Vanguard
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  BUA Viscount
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  Loading a car freighter
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  A brochure for Silver City's car freighter service
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  1966
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  Public viewing gallery
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  Derby Airways Handley Page Marathon
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  Viscount 701 in 1960
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  The much-missed lower viewing gallery in the 1960s
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  BAF Carvair
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  Channel Airways Viscount in 1965
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  Ambassador and Viscount in 1967
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  BEA Viscount on the apron in the 1960s
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  Passengers arrive in the 1960s
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  Guests waiting to board the first BAC-111 flight in 1965
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  Aero Club
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  Runway resurfacing in 1965
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  Channel Airways DC3
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  BEA Helicopter
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  BEA Argosy freighter
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  BEA Vanguard in 1963
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  Baggage unloaded in 1962
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  BEA Vanguard in 1968
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  A Jersey Airlines Dakota
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  Air Atlantique Dakota
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  Jersey Airlines Herald in 1962
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  BEA Dakota in 1961
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  Heron emergency instructions
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  Aero Club
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  British Air Ferries Carvair takes off
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  Aero club
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  Aero club
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  Aero club
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  1960s
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  1960s
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  1968
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  BUA (CI) hostesses in 1967
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  Jersey Ferry Airlines Heron
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  Clearing snow from the forecourt in 1962
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  Air Traffic Control
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  Air traffic control in 1965
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  Air traffic control, 1965
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  Air traffic control in 1969
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  An advertisement for the new Herald in 1961
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  DH Rapide on the apron in the 1960s
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  A Volvo being loaded on to a Superfreighter in 1962, on its way to compete in the Monte Carlo Rally
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  British United Airways Dakota in front of the terminal building in the 1960s
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  A British European Airways trio photographed in the 1960s by Ian Law - Dakota ...
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  ... Viscount
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  ...and DH Rapide
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  Air Rally magazine feature in 1961
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  Air Rally in 1963
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  Viscounts on the apron in the 1960s
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  Rousseau Aviation Dakota
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  1967 air rally
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  Renowned aviator Sheila Scott was a guest at the 1961 air rally
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  BUA hostess in front of a BAC-111 in the late 1960s
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  An air rally in the 1960s when the visiting aircraft were parked on the west side of the Airport, rather than close to the Aero Club on the east, as in the picture below
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  Rapides operating the Scilly Isles route for BEA were brought to Jersey for servicing
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  Bristol Freighter, a car carrying transport aircraft
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  BAC 1-11 take-off
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  Working on a Viscount's wings at Jersey Airport
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  Heralds on the apron, viewed from the control tower, in the mid-1960s
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  Airport apron in the 1960s
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  Arrivals in 1962
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  BEA Viscount
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  Cambrian Airways Dakota
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  Cambrian Viscount
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  Silver City Superfreighter
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  An unorthodox landing place for a Sandhurst exercise in 1965 - Picture Evening Post
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  BIA Dakota
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  One of the larger aircraft to visit the Airport in the decade - an Air France Constellation
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  An air rally in the 1960s. The participants' aircraft were parked to the south-west of the terminal, but in later years they were parked closer to the Aero Club to the north of the terminal
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  BUA Heralds on the apron
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  Work on building a retaining wall for ...
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  ... an extension of the western runway threshold
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  The completed extension
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  Resurfacing the apron
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  Cattle export

A busy airport during a 1960s air rally

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