Aviation pictures - Flying 1937-1940

Aviation pictures 1935-1940

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  The crash of a Flying Fox
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  at Les Quennevais during a flying display in 1935

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  Jersey Airways' Giffard Bay in England in 1937
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  Father Christmas arrives by air in 1937
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  Passengers on a Jersey Airways flight alight at Heston in 1938
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  The ill-fated St Catherine's Bay which crashed in 1938
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  The scene after the 1938 fatal crash on the approaches to Jersey Airport
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  An Avro Anson of the RAF visiting Jersey in 1938
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  DH Flamingo in 1939
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  The terminal in 1937
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  St Catherine's Bay on the apron
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  A Guernsey and Jersey Airways aircraft in front of an airport hangar
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  DH Flamingo on the apron
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  La Saline Bay
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  DH86 in front of the terminal
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  St Catherine's Bay, pictured shortly before it crashed in 1938
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  Two Jersey Airways biplanes on the apron
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  Grouville Bay
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  A de Havilland biplane in front of the Airport building
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  A Jersey Airways DH86, probably at Hendon
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  Jersey Airways' St Catherine's Bay

It did not take Father Christmas long to realise that to travel courtesy of Jersey Airways was more comfortable than behind his reindeer, which started a tradition which continued after the war, and for many years later

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  Boarding a Jersey Airways aircraft
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  1939
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  DH 89
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  A de Havilland biplane on the apron in 1938
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  Ouaisne Bay
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  A Lockheed aircraft landed on the beach at St Ouen's Bay in 1940 when fog blanketed the Airport
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  DH 86 La Saline Bay
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  DH Dragon St Brelade's Bay at Heston
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  DH 86 Belcroute Bay at Heston
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  Passengers board DH 86 La Saline Bay at Heston
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  A DH 86 in 1937
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  A DH 86 at the Airport in 1937
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  Postcard of a DH86
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  Jersey Airways aircraft at Heston
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  Jersey Airways luggage label
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  A night-time arrival in 1938
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  A DH88 lands in 1938
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  Jersey Airways staff at Heston before the war
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  A posh coach met passengers at Heston
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  The airfield in 1938
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  DH86 Dragon G-AGYF on the apron in July 1937, with St Peter's Barracks in the background
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  This picture of Air Traffic Control is dated 1938, but it may be post-war
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  An air ambulance is loaded in 1939
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  Inaugural mail flight
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  An Air France visitor

The early Jersey Airways planes were much smaller than later commercial aircraft, but the single-seat Flying Flea was altogether tiny

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