Airspeed Gallery

MBB HFB-320 Hansa Jet D-CESI

MBB HFB-320 Hansa Jet D-CESI (msn 1038), of MBB (Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH), at Prestwick Airport en-route to the USA, with one of Dan-Air's Airspeed Ambassadors parked next to it. Date: 1969

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

1038, 1969, Aeronautical, Aeroplane, Aircraft, Airplane, Airport, Airspeed, Ambassadors, D Cesi, Dan Airs, En Route, Flight, Flying, Gmbh, Hansa, Hfb 320, Jet, Lkow Blohm, Mbb, Messerschmitt B And Xf6, Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm, Msn, Parked, Plane, Prestwick, Usa

Group Captain Wilson?s team from the Empire Test Pilots?

Group Captain Wilson?s team from the Empire Test Pilots? School at Cranfield visited A. V. Roe and Co Ltd on 19 November 1945. From left: P. Kidson, Avro; R.E. Clear, Airspeed; Sqn Ldr E. Coton, DFC; Lt Cdr M.W. Davenport, DFC, US Navy; Lt Cdr J.J. Davidson, DFC, US Navy; Sqn Ldr E.B. Gale, AFC; Flt Lt F.R. Arnold, Adjutant; Sqn Ldr D.R. Cumming, AFC, RAAF; Sqn Ldr F.R. Bird, DSO, DFC; W.G.H. Sanders, Handley Page; Sqn Ldr H.G. Hastings, AFC, AFM; Sqn Ldr J.F. Handasyde, DFC; Sqn Ldr E.J. Sanderson, DSO, DFC; Capt T.C. Loh, China; Flt Lt C.F. Phripp, DFC; Sqn Ldr M.W. Sweetman, DFC, RNZAF; and Major A.G. Collings, Avro Sales. Date: 1945

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans Picture Library

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding at Rochford, was the only Courier to survive WW2 and operated on pleasure flights and taxi work for East Anglian Flying Services, later Channel Airways, of Southend until scrapped in 1949

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans Picture Library

Acvf, Aeroplane, Aeroplanes, Aircraft, Airplane, Airplanes, Airspeed, Airways, Anglian, As5, Channel, Courier, East, Flights, Flying, Operated, Plane, Planes, Pleasure, Rebuilding, Rochford, Services, Survive, Taxi, Transport, Work, Ww2