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    The Great West Aerodrome, also known as Harmondsworth Aerodrome or Heathrow Aerodrome, was a grass airfield, operational between 1930 and 1944. It was...
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    purchases gradually enlarged the aerodrome to about 240 acres (97 ha). It came to be called the Great West Aerodrome, which in 1944 was greatly enlarged...
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  • early years what is now Heathrow Airport was the Great West Aerodrome, sometimes known as Heathrow Aerodrome. About 1410: The first known mention of a semi-rural...
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  • continental USA The Great-West Life Assurance Company, a life insurance company. Its headquarters are in Winnipeg, Manitoba The Great West Aerodrome, existed from...
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    services moved to Croydon Airport. Hounslow Heath Aerodrome is not to be confused with Great West Aerodrome, which opened nearby in 1929, and which is now...
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    the first of two prototypes performed its maiden flight from the Great West Aerodrome, flown by F. H. Dixon. During April 1939, the second prototype made...
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    Home Counties. Heathrow Airport began in 1929 as a small airfield (Great West Aerodrome) on land southeast of the hamlet of Heathrow from which the airport...
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  • Aerodrome (1917–1929), Great West Aerodrome (1930–1944), Heston Airport (1944–1947), and finally at White Waltham (1947–1964). Losing the Great West Aerodrome...
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    Aviation bought the first of several plots of land west of Cain's Lane and there started the Great West Aerodrome. By then Norman Macmillan was Fairey Aviation's...
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    serial number K5099 conducted its maiden flight at Fairey Aviation's Great West Aerodrome (this site has since been occupied by London Heathrow Airport), the...
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    were converted military airfields (London Terminal Aerodrome, Croydon Aerodrome, Great West Aerodrome, Le Bourget, Tempelhof) and lacked the spaces for...
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    Heston Aerodrome was an airfield located to the west of London, England, operational between 1929 and 1947. It was situated on the border of the Heston...
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    the prototype T.S.R. I, F1875, conducted its maiden flight from Great West Aerodrome, Heathrow, piloted by Fairey test pilot Chris Staniland. F1875 performed...
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    Ministry gave the company notice to vacate the aerodrome. Flights later resumed from the Great West Aerodrome owned by Fairey in Harmondsworth, which was...
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    year, the Fairey Aviation Company opened an airfield, the Great West Aerodrome, south-west of Heathrow. This formed the nucleus of the later airport,...
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  • in 1944 during construction of Heathrow Airport Heathrow Aerodrome or Great West Aerodrome, facility that became Heathrow Airport Heathrow Airside Road...
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    aircraft and in 1928 secured a site in nearby Heathrow. This became the Great West Aerodrome, which was requisitioned by the Air Ministry in 1944. It was initially...
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    "Bagdogra Flight Connections". "IAF plans to make Birbhum aerodrome permanent base". "Licensed Aerodromes in India" (PDF). Directorate General of Civil Aviation...
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    List of A roads in zone 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 and A7 roads, and west of the A1 (road beginning with 6). "A613 (Gateshead)". sabre-roads...
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    Bomber until 1934) first flew on 25 November 1930, from Fairey's Great West Aerodrome in Heathrow and was powered by two 460 hp (340 kW) Bristol Jupiter...
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    Hucknall Aerodrome (ICAO: EGNA) was a former general aviation and RAF aerodrome located 5 nmi (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) north north-west of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire...
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    cannon was not present. The Fantôme first flew on 6 June 1935 at the Great West Aerodrome (now part of London Heathrow Airport. The aircraft was shown at the...
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    Lane, Beddington to the west and Waddon to the east. Beddington Aerodrome became a large Reserve Aircraft and Training aerodrome for the Royal Flying Corps...
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    Royal Aeronautical Society's garden party fly-in at Great West Aerodrome, also at Heston Aerodrome. On 10 July 1939, it crashed near Bicester, killing...
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    the same year the Fairey Aviation Company opened an airfield, the Great West Aerodrome, southeast of Heathrow village. About 1930 a brickworks was set up...
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  • Spitfire' hat at the 1938 RAeS Garden Party, Heathrow (Fairey's Great West Aerodrome) Van der Vat, Dan (12 August 2000). "Obituary: Constance Babington...
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    Denham Aerodrome (ICAO: EGLD) is an operational general aviation aerodrome located 1.5 NM (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) east of Gerrards Cross, near Denham, Buckinghamshire...
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    East Arm it is 469 km)". Retrieved 22 December 2014. Nav Canada's Water Aerodrome Supplement. Effective 0901Z 26 March 2020 to 0901Z 22 April 2021. "Grand...
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    List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2). Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    September or October 1939; certainly it flew from Fairey Aviation's Great West Aerodrome (the site now covered by London Heathrow Airport) for five months...
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