merged with the British European Airways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways. The establishment of Imperial Airways occurred in the context of facilitating...
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with London-bound Imperial Airways. London to Brisbane service commenced on 13 April 1935. Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways opened the 12,754-mile...
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customer, Imperial Airways, which had originally developed the requirements to which it was initially ordered and designed. Imperial Airways, and its successor...
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Speedbird (category Imperial Airways)
corporate logo for Imperial Airways. It became a design classic and was used by the airline and its successors – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)...
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of Spartan Air Lines Ltd, United Airways Ltd (no relation to the US carrier United Airlines), and Hillman's Airways. Its corporate emblem was a winged...
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The 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash occurred on 24 December 1924 when de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways crashed at Purley,...
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Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued...
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Japan Airways Co.Ltd (大日本航空株式会社, Dai Nippon Kōkū Kabushiki Kaisha, also known as Imperial Japanese Airlines, Great Japan Airlines or Greater Japan Airlines)...
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cargo operations using capacity on British Airways' passenger aircraft. IAG reached an agreement with Qatar Airways in 2014 to operate flights for IAG Cargo...
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developed during the early-to-mid 1920s in response to a statement by Imperial Airways that new multi-engined airliners were being sought to replace its single-engined...
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Imperial Airways in 1925. Daimler Airway merged with Handley Page Transport, Instone Air Line and British Marine Air Navigation into Imperial Airways...
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to a specification issued during 1928 by the British flag airline Imperial Airways. The two models are very similar, with the H.P.42 optimised for range...
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The 1933 Imperial Airways crash may refer to 1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash in which Armstrong Whitwort Argosy G-AACI crashed with the loss of 15...
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Hellenic Imperial Airways was an airline which had its head office in Ellinikon, South Athens, Greece. It operated charter and scheduled flights. The company...
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Pan Am (redirect from Pan American Airways)
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest...
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Daimler Airway, to form Imperial Airways. List of aircraft of Imperial Airways List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom Imperial Airways enthusiasts'...
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War, the airline represented Imperial Airways / British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In 1947, Gibraltar Airways formed a business relationship...
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Qantas (redirect from Qantas Airways Limited)
1934, QANTAS and Britain's Imperial Airways, a forerunner of British Airways, formed a new company, Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA). In December 1934...
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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...
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He left British Airways in 2003 and flew with EasyJet until he retired from commercial piloting in 2008. Atchison left British Airways shortly after the...
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killing one of 11 on board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport...
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Breeze, the chief flight engineer of an Imperial Airways flying boat, later the same year. At the time, Imperial Airways used Corfu as a waypoint between Africa...
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specifically developed to fulfil the needs of the British airline Imperial Airways, who sought a new four-engined airliner to serve its African routes...
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Australian Airways Adelaide Airways South Africa South African Air Force United Kingdom Imperial Airways On 6 September 1929 an Imperial Airways DH.66 Hercules...
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to Imperial Airways (later BOAC) as Fiona in 1939. It was scrapped in September 1943. A 1/10 scale model of the Albatross owned by British Airways was...
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first national airline, Imperial Airways, on 31 March 1924, Croydon became the new airline's operating base. Imperial Airways was the British Government's...
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Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways...
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consolidation. In 1924, Imperial Airways was formed from the merger of Instone Air Line Company, British Marine Air Navigation, Daimler Airway and Handley Page...
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originally known, started scheduled flights in 1930 with a service by Imperial Airways via Barton Aerodrome near Eccles, Salford and Castle Bromwich Aerodrome...
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sea, killing the pilot and both passengers. 24 December – G-EBBX, an Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34, crashed shortly after take-off from Croydon Airport...
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