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
Chisenhale Works
Built by Morris Cohen to produce veneer for the construction of Spitfire cockpits, as well as propellers and plywood for Mosquito aircraft. The plaque on the building says it existed from the 1930s...
1 memorial
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
Avro No. 1 Triplane
Airplane designed and built by Alliott Verdon Roe. The first all-British aircraft, its maiden flight took place on Walthamstow Marshes. The photograph shows Roe standing by the plane. We guess Roe ...
3 memorials
Harrow Green School - Wellington Bomber crash
A Vickers Wellington MK1C aircraft crashed on the former Harrow Green school when its generator failed in bad weather, and its engines stalled. All of the plane's crew of six, as well as five Civil...
1 memorial
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