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Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong.
Handley Page H.P.42. In 1928, Imperial Airways invited submissions from the British aviation industry for a replacement of its de Havilland Hercules and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy landplane airliners for use on its major long distance routes across the Empire.
The book begins with a map of the India to Australia route between Karachi and Singapore, operated by Imperial Airways and India Trans-Continental Airways, and east of Singapore by Qantas Empire Airways, both in association with Imperial Airways, and ends with a bibliography, but without an index. There are 74 photographs occupying the centre ...
Imperial Airways accidents and incidents (8 P) Pages in category "Imperial Airways" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. [2] In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways had opened up a London-New York-Bermuda flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on the route.
Merged with 3 other airlines to form Imperial Airways. Czech Airlines: October 6, 1923: October 26, 2024 Czechoslovakia/ Czechia: Founded as Czechoslovak State Airlines, name changed to Czech Airlines in 1995. Finnair: November 1, 1923: Still in operation Finland: Founded as Aero O/Y, name changed to Finnair in 1968. Florida Airways: 1923: 1927 ...
On 28 March 1933, an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II passenger aircraft, named City of Liverpool and operated by British airline Imperial Airways, crashed near Diksmuide, Belgium, after suffering an onboard fire; [1] all fifteen people aboard were killed, making it the deadliest accident in the history of British civil aviation to that time.
The 1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash occurred on 30 December 1933 when an Imperial Airways Avro Ten collided with one of the radio masts of Belradio at Ruysselede, West Flanders, Belgium and crashed killing all ten people on board.