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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. Passengers were typically businessmen or colonial administrators, and most flights carried about 20 passengers or ...
Museum of Baltimore Legal History - established 1990s in former Orphans Court chambers at the 1896-1900 Clarence Mitchell Baltimore City Courthouse between North Calvert and Saint Paul Streets - open for Courthouse visitors intermittently - historical artifacts/exhibits of Baltimore’s Bench and Bar, managed by the Baltimore Courthouse and Law ...
Airline History Museum, Kansas City; Freedom of Flight Museum, Webb City [62] Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis; James S. McDonnell Prologue Room, St. Louis [63] National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis; Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum, Marshall [64] TWA Museum, Kansas City, Missouri [65]
Baltimore–Washington International Airport has a gallery with aircraft cut-aways and Maryland Aviation History. [35] College Park Aviation Museum in College Park, Maryland. [36] Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum in Middle River, Maryland. [37] Hagerstown Aviation Museum, in Hagerstown, Maryland [38] Massey Air Museum, Massey, Maryland [39]
Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939: The Story of Britain's Overseas Airlines is a book by Robin Higham telling the history of the first twenty years of British air transport with an emphasis on the story of Imperial Airways and its predecessors.
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On 24 November 1939, BOAC was created by the British Overseas Airways Act 1939 to become the British state airline, formed from the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. The companies had been operating together since war was declared on 3 September 1939, when their operations were evacuated from the London area to Bristol. On 1 ...
The Calcutta biplane flying boat originated from an Imperial Airways requirement to service the Mediterranean legs of its services to and from India. Derived from the Short Singapore military flying boat, the Calcutta was noteworthy for being the first British stressed skin, metal-hulled flying boat but was preceded by the German Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV.