Aviation pictures - on the beach

Aviation pictures - On the beach

Eight aircraft - Jersey Airways' entire fleet,on the beach at west Park in 1936

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  An early beach landing in 1933
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  Rozel Bay on the beach
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  Booking office
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  Booking office and waiting room
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  St Catherine's Bay on the beach
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  St Clement's Bay on the beach
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  Back on dry land - well almost!
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  1936
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  A family photograph after their flight landed

An early landing on St Aubin's beach by this seaplane attracted curious onlookers. The year and the type of aircraft remain to be identified

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  Four Jersey Airways aircraft lined up on the beach
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  A chart showing the beach landing area
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  DH 84 on the beach
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  DH Fox Moth at West Park
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  DH86 at Heston in 1935, just arrived from Jersey's beach airport
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  A police guard for a colourful biplane on the beach in 1933 waiting to participate in a flying display at Les Quennevais
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  DH84 Dragons in 1933
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  A visit by a Ford Trimotor in May 1934 to collect a backlog of passengers
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  The passengers disembark from the Trimotor at Heston
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  Jersey Airways DH89Express
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  Jersey Airways fares
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  Police guard the newly arrived Giffard Bay
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  The cockpit of Giffard Bay
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  A Jersey Airways DH86 in 1935
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  From a family album - note the snow-covered Elizabeth Castle

A biplane on the beach in 1934 before regular commercial flights started

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  Jersey Airways' new, faster aircraft, the Giffard Bay
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  Jersey Airways planes on the beach
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  The 1936 timetable
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  Six DH Dragons on the beach at Easter 1936
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  G-ACMJ on the beach
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  A Windover amphibian was used between Jersey and Guernsey by Jersey Airways
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  Landing on the sands at West Park
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  Luggage is unloaded at West Park
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  An airport on the beach
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  Planes on the beach at West Park
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  Planes on the beach at West Park
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  August 1935: Following problems with a beach landing in August 1935, the aircraft Ouaisne Bay is dismantled on the slipway at West Park
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  The Jersey Airways ticket office
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  Shell promoting Jersey Airways in a 1935 Flight magazine advertisement

Temporary ground crew!

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  Refuelling at West Park in 1936
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  Taking off from the beach
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  Taxiing on the beach
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  An aerial view of beach operations
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  The 'ticket office' at West Park in the early 1930s
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  Jersey Airways 'ticket office' and staff ...
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  ... and submerged by the waves
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  DH86 on the beach
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  Planes on the beach at West Park in 1936
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  Capt Bailey brought his Imperial Airways aircraft to Jersey in 1936 for an emergency flight to London
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  Six of seven planes lined up on the beach at West Park ready to depart, showing just how busy Jersey's seaside 'airport' became in the mid-1930s. Jersey Airways had eight planes in their fleet at the time, so presumably this photograph was taken from the eighth. The coach which served as a waiting room for departing passengers was caught by the rising tide soon afterwards and damaged beyond repair
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  Jersey's first 'airport'

A busy day on the beach in 1936

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  DH84 Dragon St Aubin's
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  A plane being pulled out of the rising tide
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  A damaged Ouaisne Bay on the West Park slipway in 1935
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  An Avro monoplane was an unusual visitor in 1935
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  A view of the beach 'aerodrome' from a newly arrived aircraft
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  Passenters await a flight at Eastleigh in 1935
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  Passengers in front of Giffard Bay at Eastliegh in 1935
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  Eastleigh in 1935
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  Passing over the Needles en route for Jersey
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  A smart passenger disembarks in Jersey
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  A busy day on the beach
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  A biplane, Not part of Jersey Airways' fleet, on the beach at West Park
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A wedding group

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  A Ching's cigarette card
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  A memorial to the airfield
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  DH 86 Express cabin
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  On a snowy beach
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  An Avro Anson landed on the beach in the late 1930s, possibly because fog closed the Airport
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  Sisters Elsie and Blanche Audrain pose in front of a biplane on the beach at West Park
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  DH 84 Dragons in 1933
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  DH 86 Express in 1935
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  A Rapide on the beach
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  A large crowd frequently gathered around aircraft waiting on the beach with passengers ready to board and family and friends wanting to say bon voyage
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These three phtographs show a De Havilland biplane on the beach at West Park, some time after the war. There is a landing craft in the background but we have seen no record of aircraft movements on the beach at the time of the Liberation. We believe that the pictures were taken in the 21st century during a Liberation re-enactment

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  Beach games were scarcely interrupted by the arrival of an aircraft
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  It is not known whether this is a genuine photograph or whether the plane was superimposed over the waving women

Stills from Pathe film

These images are taken from a 1933 Pathe newsreel film promoting the new service from Heston to Jersey. We have not been able to establish the identity of the young lady travelling alone and greeted by a group of friends. Perhaps they were all actors recruited to create a promotional film

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  At Heston
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  The unknown passenger
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  The pilot
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  Arrival on the beach at West Park
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  A greeting from waiting friends
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  Take-off for the return to Heston with other aircraft queuing behind
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  Jersey Airways biplanes flying in formation on the return trip to England

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A 1980 beach landing in different circumstances when a private plane put down on the beach in an emergency