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• AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN RAF SERVICE 1939-1945: FAIRCHILD ARGUS.

  part of "ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT 1941-1959: ATP COLLECTION (GSA 325)" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP)

  Argus Mark I, HM181, on the ground at Heston Airport, Middlesex, following erection by the Heston Aircraft Company. This aircraft joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at White Waltham, Berkshire.

• AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE, 1939-1945: FAIRCHILD ARGUS.

  part of "ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT 1941-1959: ATP COLLECTION (GSA 325)" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP)

  Argus Mark III, HB652, on the ground at Hooton Park, Cheshire, after erection by Martin Hearne Ltd, and prior to joining the Air Transport Auxiliary.

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, 1939-1945: DE HAVILLAND DH.89 RAPIDE AND DOMINIE.

  part of "PUNNETT R S" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Dominie C Mark 1, X7382, which served with the Air Transport Auxiliary, on the ground at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

• BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

  part of "AUSTRALIAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian official photographer

  A BOAC tender taking off passengers from Short S.23 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat, G-AETZ "Circe", moored on Lake Tiberias, Palestine, while serving with Qantas. "Circe" was lost, probably to enemy action on 28th February, 1942, while flying from...

• BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  A BOAC de Havilland Comet jet airliner, en route to Johannesburg from London, breaks its journey at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The Comet first entered service in May 1952, becoming the world's first jet commercial airline service with scheduled flights to...

• BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Short Sunderland Mark III 'X' of BOAC, moored on the River Nile at Rod-el-Farag flying boat station, Cairo, Egypt.

• BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Short S.23 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat, G-ADUV "Corsair", moored on the lake at Gwalior, India.

• BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Boeing Model 314A 'Clipper', G-AGBZ "Bristol" of BOAC, flying up Chesapeake Bay before alighting at Baltimore, USA.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: WEST AFRICA COMMAND, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Gale (Plt Off)

  Squadron Leader J I "Killy" Kilmartin, commanding the No.128 Squadron RAF Detachment at Jeswang, The Gambia, escorting a Douglas DC-3 of Pan-American World Airways during a flight from Jeswang to Hastings, Sierra Leone, in Hawker Hurricane Mark IIB,...

• BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom.