This plaque marks the spot where on Sunday 27 June 1982, Captain Harry Gee of Brymon Airways landed his DHS Dash 7 on Heron Quay.
E14, Heron Quays
City Airport was built about 3 miles to the east of this test landing site.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Heron Quays Station
The landing of a STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft in the heart of L...
Former airline co-founded by journalist Bill Bryce and racing driver Chris Am...
DHC stands for De Havilland Canada. It was a turboprop-powered airliner with ...
Some of the "other material damage" can be seen in the pock-marks in the stone wall behind the plaque.
This building housed the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 1920-1939. Seamen's Hospital Society ...
Faded London have done some great research on the history behind this plaque.
This strange structure is an accumulator, basically a huge hot water tank, like you may have in your house somewhere in a nice warm cupbo...
The park at the end of this colonnade commemorates the ninety four men and women of Guy's Hospital who gave their lives during the war of...
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