Final assembly of R C Streather's Pou-du-Ciel at his workshop in Sutton Colfield. It was transported to Walsall Aerodrome where it flew successfully but after the type had its Permit to Fly withdrawn the fuselage was converted into a motor cycle sidecar.

ex G-ACVP. W/O 10. October 1936 at EKCH

The second DC-3 airframe was presented by AA at Newark on 26 June 1936. According to writer Geoff Jones, it was framed with D-LZ129 at Lakehurst 'a few weeks later'. AA ran connecting flights to its Newark hub for Zeppelin passengers. The notorious Hindenburg disaster occured here on 6 May 1937. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

The strikingly ugly ST-18 Monospar Croydon before its departure to Australia. In the background is an ST-25 Monospar Jubilee of Crilly Airways, G-ADPM, plus the huge Hanworth Park House manor near London Air Park where the GAL factory was from 1935. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The prototype Merlin-powered Fairey Battle light bomber undergoing tests at the now closed RAE airfield at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.