Airports and airfields Collection

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R101 at Cardington EPW029993
R101 at Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1929. Built 1926-30 at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, the final test flight was 1st October 1930

Terminal clock DP218790
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon Terminal Building, Bickenhill, Solihull. Detail of the clock on the south side of the air terminal

Control tower DP218791
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon Terminal Building, Bickenhill, Solihull. Interior view of the air terminals control tower from the south-west

Manchester Ringway Airport DAC01_01_008
Manchester Ringway Airport. The opening ceremony in 1938. This image shows dignitaries examining the brand new state of the art airport facilities

Heston Aerodrome c. 1930s AFL03_aerofilms_c19981
Heston Aerodrome, Hounslow, Middlesex. The control tower (centre) may have been the first purpose-built example and became the model for this class of building

Disused hangar DP275584
Old Sarum Airfield, Hanger 3, Laverstock, Wiltshire. Interior view of the south-east hangar at Hangar 3, Old Sarum Airfield, showing Belfast roof trusses above an old car in the foreground

Barton Aerodrome Control Tower PLA01_04_049
Barton Aerodrome, Control Tower, Liverpool Road, Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester. Barton Aerodrome Control Tower, seen from the seen-east

Manchester Airport 35014_005
Manchester Airport, Manchester, 2021

Birmingham Eurohub interior JLP01_10_50359
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon, Birmingham, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands. The information desk in the Eurohub terminal at Birmingham International Airport soon after its completion

Red Arrows over Birmingham International JLP01_10_16460
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon, Birmingham, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands. A Hawker Siddenley Andover aircraft on the runway at Birmingham International Airport

Birmingham Maglev JLP01_09_832036
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon, Birmingham, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands. Workmen inspecting a new Maglev car on the new Maglev system at Birmingham Airport near the end of its

Terminal interior JLP01_09_850079
Birmingham International Airport, Elmdon, Birmingham, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands. The interior of the central well in the new terminal building at Birmingham International Airport after its

Hangars 33807_028
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. An aircraft hangar being returfed, 2019

Hangars 33807_024
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. Repurposed aircraft hangars with restoration in progress, 2019

RAF Cark 34119_030
Cark Airfield, a WWII military airfield known as RAF Cark, Cumbria, 2019

Hangars 33807_022
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. Repurposed aircraft hangar, 2019

Seaplane Station 28837_011
Seaton Carew II Seaplane Station, Hartlepool, 2015. NZ5326

Birmingham International Airport 33658_014
Birmingham International Airport, West Midlands. Aeroplanes at Terminals One and Two, 2018

Birmingham International Airport 33658_013
Birmingham International Airport, West Midlands. Aeroplanes at Terminals One and Two, 2018

Chalgrove Airfield 33634_016
Chalgrove Airfield, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, 2018. Chalgrove Airfield, a military airfield opened 1943 and used by units of the 8th and 9th USaF

Chalgrove Airfield 33634_083
Chalgrove Airfield, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, 2018. The manufacturing, support and testing facility of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co, designers and manufacturers of ejection and crashworthy seats

Flying Boat JRU01_01_109
TOWER BRIDGE, TOWER HILL, TOWER HAMLETS, GREATER LONDON. A Short Sunderland flying boat on the River Thames at Tower Bridge, with the bridge in the background, during the Battle of Britain Week

Stow Maries Airfield DP217226
Stow Maries Airfield, Stow Maries, near Maldon, Essex. View from airfield looking towards Pilots Ready Room with a scale replica SE5A biplane in foreground

Brabazon Hangar DP137889
Brabazon Hangar, Filton Airport, Bristol, Somerset. General view of hangar. Post War Buildings

King George V Dock EAW572435
King George V Dock, London. Shows the original short runway for London City Airport.Photographed by Aerofilms Ltd in June 1989

Thurleigh Airfield, Bedford 18945_22
Bedford Airfield, Bedfordshire. Thurleigh Airbase hosted the 8th US Airforce during the Second World War and was known as station 111

Bristol Airport JEH_22047_061
Bristol Airport, Lulsgate Bottom, Somerset. This site was first used as a RAF relief landing ground in 1940. The aerodrome was converted and opened as a new airport for Bristol in 1957

Long Newnton Airfield 27446_039
Long Newnton, Gloucestershire. Solar farm on the site of the former RAF airfield

Greenham Common 27439_046
Greenham Common, West Berkshire. Former RAF and USaF airfield, with the GAMA Complex (cruise missile storage bunkers) to one side. The airfield was operational between 1942 and 1993

Military Airfield 28388_005
Cottesmore Airfield, Lincolnshire. Home to the RAFs Harrier GR9 squadrons until closure in 2011. It is now an army base. SK9016/3

Snowy runways 28377_015
Collinski Airfield, RAF Spadeadam, Cumbria. Dummy airfield constructed during the Cold War for testing purposes. NY6574/3

Wroughton, Wiltshire US_7PH_GP_LOC209_V_5004
WROUGHTON, Wiltshire. This vertical photograph (taken in 1944 by the US Army Air Force) shows Barbury Castle hillfort, RAF Wroughton (centre), and the village of Wroughton

Doncaster Airport EPW049428
DONCASTER AIRPORT AND BELLE VUE STADIUM. View of the airfield and the home of Doncaster Rovers Football Club, photographed in 1935. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

Graf Zeppelin EPW038817
The Graf Zeppelin moored at Hanworth Aerodrome, London Air Park in July 1932. This was her third and final visit to the UK after a flight over London in 1930

Flying boat berth, Southampton EAW023211
BOAC FLYING BOAT SERVICES, Southampton Water. Flying boat services had been operating from Southampton since 1919. After the Second World War

Bentley car and aircraft propellers a087923
HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A Aircraft Hangar, London. A Bentley car parked on the runway in front of the British European Airways buildings at Heathrow Airport with the propellers of an aircraft visible

Aerial photography 1919 AFL03_aerofilms_c12930
" Wills, Shaw and Friese-Greene Ready to Film". A publicity shot for the foundation of the Aerofilms aerial photography company taken at the London Aerodrome, Hendon

Flying Boat Pier EAW020642
The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flying Boat Maintenance Base and Pier, Hythe, Hampshire. Photographed by Aerofilms Ltd in 19 1948

Flying Boat EAW002991
Short S.26 seaplane Golden Hind (G-AFCI) at anchor in Poole Harbour, Dorset. The first of three S.26 G-Class flying-boats built by Short Brothers at Rochester and first flown on the 21st July 1939

Wroughton Airfield Solar Park 29714_046
Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, Wiltshire. Solar farm shown under construction in February 2016. It was energised just over a month later. Some of the hangars are used by the Science Museum

Heston Airport EPR001299
Heston Aerodrome, Hounslow, London. Aerial view by Aeropictorial. Heston operated as an airport between 1929 and 1947. February 1936. Aerofilms Collection

Visiting dignitary AFL03_aerofilms_b730
Dignitary and airmen at Heston Aerodrome. The plane in the background is a Spartan Cruiser passenger aircraft operated by Spartan Air Lines Limited on the London-Cowes (Isle of Wight)

Taken on the first Aerofilms flight EPW000003
LONDON AERODROME, Hendon. From the first ever Aerofilms flight taking commercial aerial photography in July 1919. Shows the area around Hendon and another aircraft in flight

First ever Aerofilms photograph EPW000001
LONDON AERODROME, Hendon. The first ever Aerofilms commercial aerial photograph taken in July 1919 showing the London Country Club (formerly the London Flying Club)

Flying circus EPW041022
Flying circus, April 1933. Aviation events like this one were popular entertainments between the wars, including aerobatics, barnstorming and wing-walking (as seen here)

Austin van and aircraft propellers a087965
HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A Aircraft Hangar, London. A view of an Austin van parked on the apron outside the British European Airways aircraft hangar at Heathrow Airport with the propellers of an

Heathrow Airport a073304
HEATHROW AIRPORT, Greater London. A BOAC aircraft with boarding steps to left at Heathrow Airport. Photograph by John Gay in 1970

Dirigible and aircraft AFL03_aerofilms_b2308
Dirigible and BE2 aircraft, pre-war, no date or location. This small unidentified airship is probably a Royal Navy submarine spotter

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