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Photographs of Group Captain Douglas Bader in the cockpit of a Shell Petroleum Company plane at Jersey Airport, and of passengers and onlookers surrounding the airliner 'Giffards Bay', possibly G-ACYA, on the beach, a de Havilland Diana, which could carry 14 passengers and two crew. A bus can also be seen advertising 'Go by air to London, Southampton, Portsmouth'.

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Reference	L/A/75/A2/AVI/1/9
Date	16 February 1935 - 31 July 1954
Names	Giffard's Bay (Aeroplane) de Havilland Express (Aeroplane) Jersey Airways Limited Bader, Douglas, Group Captain Shell Petroleum Company Limited
Keywords	beach landings \| Aeroplanes \| Planes \| Portraits \| Aircraft \| Buses \| passengers \| Air Travel
Category	L/A-Businesses
Dimensions	2 Photographs
Language	English
Level of description	File
Creator	Jersey Evening Post, The
Access restrictions	Closed for preservation. Please view digital image.
Closed until	2100
Subject	9
File number	Aviation
Page number	Page

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L/A/75 Jersey Evening Post (JEP)

L/A/75/A Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive 1921 to 2003. Comprises photo negatives and film, including glass plate negatives, and contact sheets of photographs, from Jersey’s evening newspaper. Arranged in subject boxes, subject files, and chronologically by year and job number. Also includes photographers’ diaries, some of which are indexed. In addition, there are digital images from 2003 to date

L/A/75/A2 Subject files containing pages of mounted photographic prints, of negatives from the Subject Boxes of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive 1921 to 1975, with notes

L/A/75/A2/AVI Aviation Subject Files. Pages of mounted photographic prints of negatives relating to aviation, aeroplanes, beach landings, Jersey Airport, the Air Display and air crashes, with notes. These correspond to the Aviation Subject Boxes of negatives from the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive, and date from 1933 to 1970

L/A/75/A2/AVI/1 Aviation Subject File number 1. Pages of mounted photographic prints of negatives relating to aviation, aeroplanes, beach landings, Jersey Airport, the Air Display and air crashes, with notes. These correspond to the negatives contained within Aviation Subject Box number 1 of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive, and date from 1933 to 1954

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Photographs of Group Captain Douglas Bader in the cockpit of a Shell Petroleum Company plane at Jersey Airport, and of passengers and onlookers surrounding the airliner 'Giffards Bay', possibly G-ACYA, on the beach, a de Havilland Diana, which could carry 14 passengers and two crew. A bus can also be seen advertising 'Go by air to London, Southampton, Portsmouth'.

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