Farnborough Grammar School
Prospect Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire
Telephone : Farnborough 539
Blackbushe Airport - Photos 47-69
G-APON Douglas DC-6 : Eagle Airways
G-ANRS Vickers Viscount : Hunting-Clan
G-ANRS Vickers Viscount : Hunting-Clan
HZ-AAW Douglas DC-4, Saudi Arabian Airways, became G-ASRS with Eagle, ended up as a café in Darmstadt,
scrapped at nearby Lampertheim
G-ALDG Handley Page Hermes : Airwork, then Falcon, then Britavia
G-ALHR Canadair DC-4M North Star. BOAC named them their ‘Argonaut’ class
G-AHGA Percival Proctor
Vickers Viscount V.798D North East Airlines, on delivery 28 February 1959. (Likely to be N6599C according to Alan Lathan)
81 Handley Page Hermes : Airwork
G-APKW De Havilland 114 Heron, no livery, possibly just arrived for Eagle
Airways, around February 1958
G-APON DC-6 : Eagle Airways delivered September 1958
Pegasus Viking G-AHPL was originally with BEA, sold to Rhodesia in 1953 and was restored in
December 1958 to Claydon Aviation trading as Pegasus. They went into
receivership in 1961 and the aircraft sat around (in Blackpool) until 1965, when
it went to Invicta, Manston for four years.
N4086A Curtiss C-46 Commando Super 46C, L.B. Smith Aircraft Corp, noted by Alan Lathan 16 February 1958
N4086A Curtiss C-46 Commando Super 46C, L.B. Smith Aircraft Corp, noted by Alan Lathan 16 February 1958
56526 Douglas R5D-3 US Navy, coded 6F, noted by Alan Lathan on 5 May 1959. Made VR-6 Sqn’s 5000th Berlin Airlift during 1949
G-AJTG Miles Gemini registered December 1958 to North Perrott Estates, Crewkerne, Somerset
G-AJTG Miles Gemini
In August 1957, English Electric Canberra B.2 WK163 captured the world altitude record.
Fitted with a Napier Double Scorpion NScD1/2 rocket motor WK163 achieved a height of 70,310 feet.
Seen here coming out of Farnborough
G-AHXW De Havilland Rapide, went to USA and restored in Kings Flight colours as G-ADDD
XA891 Avro Vulcan, Farnborough
Hawker Hunter T7, Farnborough
General view including Vickers Viscount on the left
London Heathrow Airport
Douglas DC-7: Swissair
London Heathrow Airport
Douglas DC-4 : Air France
London Heathrow Airport
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