A business closely associated with Croydon Airport.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Westmead Business Group
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Croydon aircraft
{On an information board attached to the terminal building, behind the plane:...
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Royal Air Force
Formed 1st April 1918 at Hotel Cecil, 80 the Strand where it had its first headquarters. Motto: Per Ardua Ad Astra, Latin for "Through Struggles to the Stars".
8 memorials
Royal Naval Air Service
We can't find a date for when this was first formed; it seems to have come into existence gradually. The use of aircraft for military and naval purposes was first discussed officially in 1908. Tw...
2 memorials
Robert Hollond
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
1 memorial
R100 Airship
In full: His Majesty's Airship R100.  It was a privately designed British airship built as part of a two-ship competition to develop a commercial airship service for use on British Empire routes as...
1 memorial
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