Supermarine Sea Eagle
Aircraft registration is G-EBFK.
This aircraft - G-EBFK - was one of only three Supermarine Sea Eagles built, and were used for the world's first scheduled passenger air service by flying boat, between Southampton and Guernsey. This aircraft crashed on 21st May 1924.
See also entry for this same aircraft on a Marshall Islands 2001 set.
Info from sources listed below (will open in new tab)
1. Wikipedia
Source : Avia Deja Vu
Supermarine Southampton
Aircraft registration is S-1162.
Not much info available.
Supermarine Spitfire
Aircraft registration is EN116, identifier 'RN-A'.
First flew November 1942, saw action in Africa in February 1943 with 72 Squadron. Collided with a BF109 and crashed in April 1943.
Info from All Spitfire Pilots site.
Percival Mew Gull
Aircraft registration is G-AEXF.
This aircraft was a British racing champion of the 1930s. It was owned by Alex Henshaw, and in 1938 Henshaw piloted this aircraft to win the King's Cup at 236 mph. In 1939 this aircraft set the record for the fastest England - Cape Town return time of 4 days and 10 hours, which stood for about 70 years. This aircraft has been restored and is now at the Shuttleworth Collection.
DHC-1 Chipmunk
Aircraft registration is OO-PHS, construction no 19.
Was part of the Belgian Air Force which was looking at replacements for the DH82 Tiger Moth. Was sold in 1956 to the Royal Antwerp Aviation Club. Aircraft crashed in September 1970 while trying to fly inverted.
Info from this link.
Source : Airport-Data.
Bristol Superfreighter
Aircraft registration is G-ANWM, was named 'Silver City'.
No info available. Please see this Jersey 2009 stamp featuring the same aircraft.
Source : airliners.net.
Airspeed Ambassador
Aircraft registration is G-ALZO, was named 'Christopher Marlowe', c/n 5226.
This aircraft still survives, and is under long term major restoration by the Duxford Aviation Society at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK.
Source : jetphotos.com, image copyright Steve Brimley.
de Havilland DH-114 Heron
Aircraft registration is G-AMYU, was named 'Duchess of Jersey'.
Crashed while on a freight flight to Guernsey on 15th August 1958, and was damaged beyond repair.
Source : airhistory.net.
de Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide
Aircraft registration is G-AGPH, was named 'Sir Henry Havelock'.
Aircraft was damaged beyond repair when it overturned on a beach near Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides on 6th December 1951.
Source : airliners.net.
de Havilland DH-86 Express
Aircraft registration is G-ACZP, c/n no 2321.
Built in 1934, this aircraft was initially registered to Jersey Airlines before being impressed into service by the RAF during the war. Crashed in Madrid in 1958, and was written off. It was one of the last flying DH-86 Express aircraft.
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1. BAAA
2. rzjets
Source : airhistory.net.
Supermarine Spitfire
Aircraft registration is P7895 'RN-N'.
Built early 1941. Crashed during takeoff from RAF Peterborough in March 1945, and was written off.
Info from this Aviation Safety Network page.
Source : asisbiz.
Hawker Hurricane
Aircraft identifier 'UF-N'.
Not much info available, but managed to get a photo of the aircraft.
P/O Juliusz "Topola" Topolnicki of No 601 Squadron RAF sits in readiness near Hurricane Mk I UF-N in a revetment at RAF Tangmere. August 1940.
Source : filminspector.com.
Avro Lancaster
Aircraft registration is W4339, identifier 'UF-N'.
Lancaster W4339 ("PM-M" of 103 Sqn, RAF) took off from RAF Elsham Wolds at 01:27 hours on the night of 2/3rd December 1942, detailed to bomb Frankfurt, Germany. Was shot and crashed between Trebur and Groß-Gerau, Hessen, 8 kms of Rüsselsheim. All 7 crew were killed.
No photos available.
Info from this Aviation Safety Network page.
Short 360
Aircraft registration is G-OAAS, c/n no SH.3648.
First flew in June 1984. Operated by Aurigny Air Services from 1990 to 1998.
Info from this Wikimedia Commons page.
Source : Wikimedia Commons.
de Havilland DH-95 Flamingo
Aircraft registration is G-AFUE, c/n no 95001.
G-AFUE was the first prototype of the DH.95 which was the first all-metal, stressed-skin aircraft built by De Havilland. It first flew on 28th Dec 1938, and was damaged beyond repair after just 2 years of service, in October 1940.
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1. BAE Systems
Handley Page HPR-1 Marathon
Aircraft registration is G-AMGW, c/n no 127.
Was owned by Derby Aviation. This particular aircraft doesn’t exist anymore, though the upper fuselage section of was stored at Woodley, United Kingdom as part of the Miles Collection c. 2000.
Info from this Wikiwand page.
Source : AirTeamImages.
de Havilland DH-114 Heron
Aircraft registration is G-AORG.
Built in 1956, and flew with Jersey Airlines. In service with the Royal Navy from 1961. Since 2009, this aircraft has been in Coventry where a bunch of enthusiasts are trying to keep her flying. Supposedly this is the last flying DH Heron. Last update on the Key.Aero page (see link) says this aircraft flew briefly in 2017.
More photos at the first link below.
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1. Key.Aero
2. Flickr
Source : Key.Aero.
de Havilland DH-86 Express
Aircraft registration was G-ACYF, VR-SBD, VH-AND, RAAF as A31-2, c/n 2313.
One of the first DH.86 planes produced, this aircraft saw service with Jersey Airways from 1935 to mid-1938, before ownership headed east, initially in Singapore and eventually as A31-2 with the RAAF. It crashed in May 1944 and was dismantled. While in service with Jersey Airways, this aircraft also featured in a nice poster for the airline.
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2. Geoff Goodall's Aviation History site.
3. See this interesting poster from the Smithsonian site, which features this aircraft.
Photo taken on 17th July 1937.
Source : The Island Wiki.
Source : Geoff Goodall's Aviation History site.
Source : Smithsonian website. Click on the link for a large size image.
Vickers Wellington
Aircraft registration was R1613, identifier 'BU-G'.
Aircraft was shot down over Bremen in the early hours of 15th July 1941. Four aircraft had taken off on the mission, and at about 10000 feet over Bremen they had been attacked by German aircraft. Two of the crew were killed, while the rest baled out, ending up as POWs for the remainder of the war.
No photos of this aircraft are available, but there's a drawing by Flt Lt Marshall Johnson who was rear gunner on this aircraft that fateful night (he survived).
Info from this site.
Boulton Paul Defiant
Aircraft registration was L7026, identifier 'PS-V'.
Aircraft was shot down over the UK sometime on 28th August 1940, killing Pilot Officer C E Johnson.
Also see the Gibraltar 2010 issue here featuring the same aircraft.
Info from this Back to Normandy site.
Source : Aircraft of the RAF from the Imperial War Museum (IWM) website
Short Sunderland
Aircraft registration was P9603, identifier 'RB-H'.
Assigned Nov 1939 to 10 Sqn RAAF, sank a U-26 in July 1940, 2 AR196 in June 1941. On 24th June 1941, crashed while landing.
Info from this ADF Serials site.
Source : Australian War Memorial website
de Havilland DH-84 Dragon
Aircraft registration was G-ACMJ.
Aircraft was operated by Jersey Airways for flights from Jersey to mainland UK. Registration was cancelled in Nov 1941, but fate of this aircraft is not known.
Info from this Civil Aviation Register - GB site.
Source : The Island Wiki website
Britten-Norman Islander
Aircraft registration was G-CIAS, was called Lions Pride.
G-CIAS was a search-and-rescue aicraft acquired by Channel Islands Air Search (CIAS) in 1992. It was named Lions Pride as much of the funding came from the Lions Club. On 3rd Nov 2013, while searching for two fishermen, the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in Jersey. No one was hurt but the aircraft was written off.
Info from Aviation Safety Network.
Source : This BBC News article
Junkers Ju 52 (Ju 52/3m)
Aircraft registration was F-AZJU, c/n 103.
This Ju52 is one of the first CASA 352s built in Spain. The fuselage was manufactured in Germany by Junkers and the wings by CASA in 1943.The fuselage was sent to Spain with thirty others, to join the assembly line. After decommission the Ju52 was acquired by a British Movie company. In 1990 she was acquired by Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis and meticulously restored by the Amicale team.
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2. Plenty of photos at this Wikimedia Commons page.
Source : Wikimedia Commons
Douglas C-47 Dakota
Aircraft registration was G-AHCZ, c/n 11924, built in 1943.
Not much info available, but few photos available from when it was operated by Cambrian Airways. Aircraft was written off sometime in 1969.
Info from AirportData.com.
Source : Copyrighted image from ABPic
Handley Page Dart Herald
Aircraft registration was G-APWE.
No info available
Source : Copyrighted image from ABPic
Bristol Type 170 Freighter
Aircraft registration was G-ANWM.
No info available. Please see this Jersey 1984 stamp featuring the same aircraft.
Source : Copyrighted image from ABPic
Fokker F27 Friendship
Aircraft registration was G-BNCY, c/n 10558.
First flew in 1977. Operated by AirUK for flights between the Channel Islands and mainland UK. Crashed while landing at Guernsey airport on 7th Dec 1997. Overshot the runway and ended up in a patch of grass. No one was injured but aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Info from Aviation Safety Network.
Source : Copyrighted image from Flickr, taken in Feb 1988.
de Havilland DH-86 Express
Aircraft registration was G-ACZR 'La Saline Bay', c/n 2322.
Was operated by Jersey Airways, and was requisitioned by RAF during the war. Crashed on 31st Mar 1943, with 7 fatalities while on a military flight.
Info from Aerial Visuals.
Source : The Island Wiki website.
Bristol Type 170 Freighter, Wayfarer Mk II
Aircraft registration was G-AGVB, c/n 12731.
Not much info available on this aircraft.
Source : Copyrighted photo from airhistory.net.
Dornier 328
Aircraft registration was G-BYHG, c/n 3098.
Not much info available on this aircraft.
Source : Wikimedia Commons.
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (S.E.5a)
Aircraft registration was F904.
Built by Wolseley Motors, and assigned to No 84 Squadron RAF in Nov 1918. Successfully brought down a Fokker DVII just a day before the armistice came into effect. After the war, it went into private hands, rediscovered in 1955, and restored to flying status. It now flies in airshows in its original colours.
Info from Warbird Aviation.
Source : Warbird Aviation.
Hawker Fury
Aircraft registration was K5673.
The original K5673 was delivered in early 1936 to No. 1 Squadron, RAF. In 1938, K5673 moved to No. 3 Flying Training School, but was ‘written off’ in a landing accident at RAF South Cerney on 7th December. The picture here is of a replica.
Info from Brooklands Museum website.
Source : ABPic. Note that this is not the actual aircraft but a replica built for the museum.
Short Stirling B.III
Aircraft registration was EE917, identifier 'EX-L'.
Was part of 199 Squadron RAF. On 31st Aug 1943, this aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Bruno Eikmeier of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 'G9+BK'. The aircraft crashed near Nederweert-Eind, Limburg in the Netherlands, and all 8 crew were killed. No photos are available of this aircraft.
Info from Aviation Safety Network.
Fokker F27 Friendship
Aircraft registration was G-BHMZ. MSN 10244, built in 1964.
Not much info available, but it seems to have been scrapped around 1985.
Source : Wikimedia Commons image.
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Aircraft registration was G-APHX. MSN 507.
Originally part of the Kuwait Oil Company in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At some point, they returned back to the UK, and were then part of the fleet of Jersey Ferry Airlines. Current whereabouts unknown.
Source : Wikipedia image.
Vickers Viscount
Aircraft registration was G-APIM, c/n 412 (V.806 series).
First flight in June 1958. Had a notable history with various airlines, finally ending up with British Air Ferries. Damaged beyond economic repair in an accident at Southend Airport on 11th January 1988, when a Shorts SD3-30 hit it while taxiing for takeoff. The aircraft was then given on long-term lease to the Brooklands Museum's aviation collection, where it is on display.
Info from the Vickers Viscount Network, which has the full detailed history of this aircraft.
Source : Flickr - image likely under copyright.
Britten-Norman Islander
Aircraft registration is 2-CIAS.
This was a new aircraft delivered to the Channel Islands Air Search (CIAS) in June 2019, developed on a bespoke design by Britten-Norman.
Info from Britten-Norman
Source : CIAS' Facebook page
