A business closely associated with Croydon Airport.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Westmead Business Group
Commemorated ati
Croydon aircraft
{On an information board attached to the terminal building, behind the plane:...
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Myra Josephine Royal
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Sir Alan Cobham
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Morton Air Services
A very early independent British airline. Eventually absorbed into British United Island Airways.
Lady Maud Hoare DBE
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First British public airmail flight
The balloon flight was organised to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII, and was piloted by M. Auguste Eugine Gaudron and Dr Francis Alexander Barton. It ascended from the Croydon Road Recr...
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