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The first arrival

  • The routes of the 1912 St Malo air races

  • A competitor passes St Malo lighthouse

  • The first plane to land in Jersey

  • Astra on the beach at West Park in 1912

  • The crowd waits

  • The aircraft approaches the landing area

  • The first aircraft lands

  • The first landing

  • The first aircraft about to land in Jersey

  • A postcard of the first plane to land in Jersey

  • Mabel was there!

  • The first aircraft to land in Jersey in 1912 from La Chronique de Jersey coverage

  • 1912 from La Chronique de Jersey

  • 1912 from La Chronique de Jersey

  • 1912 from La Chronique de Jersey

  • 1912 from La Chronique de Jersey

  • The first plane to land in 1912

  • Landing on the waves

  • The pilot

  • Poster commemorating the first landing

  • One of the first planes to land in Jersey on the beach at West Park

  • Jersey's first aircraft arrival in 1912

  • Return to St Malo

The early years on sand and water

  • A flying boat manoeuvres into St Helier Harbour

  • An Imperial Airways flying boat leaves St Helier Harbour prior to take-off

  • An autogyro, an early aircraft to visit Jersey in 1933

  • The autogyro was demonstrated by Flt-Lt Barringer to a crowd estimated at 20,000

  • Cloud of Iona

  • Iona

  • Iona

  • From a postcard, Sea Eagle, a flying boat pictured in Jersey

  • Elsie Deroche, an aviation pioneer in Jersey in 1917

  • Seaplane Calcutta

  • Supermarine Seagull in St Helier Harbour

  • Sea Gull, a flying boat visitor in 1929

  • The Saro Cloud on the beach in 1930

  • Saro Cloud in the Harbour

  • A private aircraft lands on the beach in 1931 and is manouvred to a Gloucester Street garage for refuelling

  • The 1933 air pageant at Les Quennevais, four years before the Airport opened

  • Mrs Victor Bruce, right, the first woman to fly round the world, attended Jersey's air pageant in 1933

  • A Jersey Airways aircraft at an unknown airport in 1933

On the beach

Eight aircraft - Jersey Airways' entire fleet,on the beach at west Park in 1936

  • A chart showing the beach landing area

  • DH 84 on the beach

  • DH86 at Heston in 1935

  • A police guard for a colourful visiting biplane on the beach

  • An incoming aircraft taxies on the beach - from a Pathe news film

  • Girls wave at the aircraft - from the same news film

  • DH84 Dragons in 1933

  • A visit by a Ford Trimotor in May 1934 to collect a backlog of passengers

  • The passengers disembark from the Trimotor at Heston

  • Flights from St Brelade beach

  • Jersey Airways DH89Express

  • Jersey Airways fares

  • Police guard the newly arrived Giffard Bay

  • The cockpit of Giffard Bay

  • A Jersey Airways DH86 in 1935

  • Jersey Airways' new, faster aircraft, the Giffard Bay

  • Jersey Airways planes on the beach

  • The 1936 timetable

  • Six DH Dragons on the beach at Easter 1936

  • A Windover amphibian was used between Jersey and Guernsey by Jersey Airways

  • Luggage is unloaded at West Park

  • An airport on the beach

  • Planes on the beach at West Park

  • Planes on the beach at West Park

  • Landing on the sands at West Park

  • August 1935: Following problems with a beach landing in August 1935, the aircraft Ouaisne Bay is dismantled on the slipway at West Park

  • The Jersey Airways ticket office

  • Shell promoting Jersey Airways in a 1935 Flight magazine advertisement

  • Refuelling at West Park in 1936

  • Taking off from the beach

  • Taxiing on the beach

  • An aerial view of beach operations

  • The 'ticket office' at West Park in the early 1930s

  • Jersey Airways 'ticket office' and staff ...

  • ... and submerged by the waves

  • DH86 on the beach

  • Planes on the beach at West Park in 1936

  • Capt Bailey brought his Imperial Airways aircraft to Jersey in 1936 for an emergency flight to London

  • Six of seven planes lined up on the beach at West Park ready to depart, showing just how busy Jersey's seaside 'airport' became in the mid-1930s. Jersey Airways had eight planes in their fleet at the time, so presumably this photograph was taken from the eighth. The coach which served as a waiting room for departing passengers was caught by the rising tidy soon afterwards and damaged beyond repair

  • Jersey's first 'airport'

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  • DH84 Dragon St Aubin's

A new airport - the 1930s

The new States Airport in 1937

  • An aerial view in 1936 shortly before the Airport opened

  • The builder's workforce ready to start work on the airport

  • The steel framework for the airport terminal goes up

  • The building takes shape

  • Nearly complete

  • A new airport in 1937

  • Air traffic control in 1937

  • The 1937 baggage hall

  • The Airport at its opening in 1937

  • The official opening ceremony of Jersey Airport in 1937

  • An aerial view in 1937 with St Peter's Barracks in the foreground and the Airport terminal behind

  • The terminal building in 1937 from the air side

  • The forecourt in 1937

  • Alexander Coutanche and his wife in front of a DH 86

  • The Airport buildings from the north-west in 1937

  • The new building from the front

  • A landing beacon in 1937

  • The Airport's first controller, Charles Roche

  • Lord Coutanche with the first consignment of mail

  • The first emergency vehicles

  • Jersey Airways crew in 1937

  • Jersey Airways 1937 timetable

  • Using a signalling light

  • A Flight Magazine picture of the Airport in 1937

  • From an advertisement promoting 'Cerrux' which was used on the terminal exterior surfaces

  • The observation platform

  • Official guests on an opening day tour leave the observation platform for the forecourt

  • Opening day in 1937

  • The plaque in the entrance hall unveiled

  • DH86 in front of the new terminal. This aircraft was later involved in a fatal crash

  • Approach control in 1937

  • The original airport control building

  • A DH 86 in 1937

  • A DH 86 at the Airport in 1937

  • Postcard of a DH86

  • An aerial view of the new aerodrome

  • The observation platform

  • Opening day

  • The airport restaurant in 1937

  • The entrance hall

  • Another view of the entrance hall

  • The forecourt in 1937

  • The apron and terminal building

  • The DH95 Flamingo

  • DH95 Flamingo en route to Heston

  • DH 89

  • Jersey Airways luggage label

  • De Havilland biplane on the apron

  • Promoting the superb new Flamingo airliner in 1939

  • DH86 La Saline Bay

  • La Saline Bay

  • The terminal in the early days

  • Passengers on a Jersey Airways flight alight at Heston in 1938

  • The ill-fated St Catherine's Bay which crashed in 1938

  • St Catherine's Bay

  • The scene after the 1938 fatal crash on the approaches to Jersey Airport

  • An Avro Anson of the RAF visiting Jersey in 1938

  • The new Airport building from the airside

  • The plans for the building

  • The architect's elevation of the new building

  • The Airport terminal from the airside

  • Passenger check-in and baggage weighing

  • Control room

  • The main entrance from the forecourt

  • Entrance hall

  • No 1 hangar

  • The public observation balcony

  • Inside the main entrance hall

  • The internal stairs to the observation balcony

  • A night-time arrival in 1938

  • A DH88 lands in 1938

  • Jersey Airways staff at Heston before the war

  • A posh coach met passengers at Heston

  • Two de Havilland aircraft land together from the south at Jersey Airport

  • The airport in 1939

  • A flying boat service shortly before the Occupation

  • DH 86 La Saline Bay

  • DH Dragon St Brelade's Bay at Heston

  • DH 86 Belcroute Bay at Heston

  • Passengers board DH 86 La Saline Bay at Heston

  • DH Flamingo at Heston in 1939

  • Another picture of Jersey Airways' first Flamingo, probably at Heston

  • The Flamingo flies over Portelet

  • A de Havilland biplane on the apron in 1938

  • Ouaisne Bay

  • DH Flamingo over La Corbière

The Germans take over 1940-1945

The Airport under German control

  • The Swastika flies over the Airport

  • The Bailiff and Attorney-General are summoned to the Airport to meet the first senior officers to arrive

  • A Messerschmidt at the Airport

  • Another Messerschmidt

  • A sign of the times: no entry to the Airport for civilians

  • The first German troops landed at the Airport

  • A Junkers troop carrier

  • A Messerschmidt 110 at Jersey Airport

  • A Junkers 88 at the Airport

  • Pictures of German aircraft in Jersey are rare

  • Refuelling a Messerschmidt at the Airport

  • Shells left behind by the Germans

  • German troops arrive in a Junkers

  • Luftwaffe officers fly in

  • The only remaining German hangar

  • Troops arrive at the Airport

  • Attorney-General Duret Aubin with German officers

  • The swastika flies over Jersey Airport

  • A Junkers 51 at the Airport

  • A heavy landing during the war

  • A Messerschmidt

  • A Messerschmidt

  • Airport defences

  • Airport defences

  • Airport defences

  • Troops at the Airport

  • Troops at the Airport

  • Troops at the Airport

  • Troops at the Airport

  • Junkers 51

  • Junkers 51

  • The Airport during the war

  • A Dornier Do17 over St Aubin's Bay

Back in business - the 1940s

Back in business after the Occupation

  • An aerial view of the airport in 1946

  • Passengers used to walk some distance across the apron to their aircraft

  • A thriving gliding club operated over the sand dunes

  • An aerial view in 1947

  • A post-war ambulance crew

  • French cheeses flown in in 1949

  • Traffic lights controlled traffic on a road which crossed the airfield

  • Passengers wait for their flight

  • Back in business after the War

  • A DH86b operated jointly by Jersey Airways and Guernsey Airways

  • Nonpareil, a house which had to be demolished as the airport expanded

  • Wayfarer in 1946

  • Bristol Wayfarer

  • Bristol Wayfarer

  • Home Secretary Chuter Ede leaves the Wayfarer

  • The controls and instruments of the Wayfarer

  • The Wayfarer flies over Corbiere

  • The spacious passenger cabin in the Wayfarer

  • Crowds flock to see the new aircraft

  • This Airspeed Consul operated by Westminster Airways on charters from Blackbushe and Gatwick crashed in Jersey in June 1947

  • Airspeed Consul crash

  • Airspeed Consul crash

  • An aerial view of the terminal in 1947

  • St Peter's Barracks in the distance

  • Aircraft parked on the grass in front of St Peter's Barracks

  • Approach lights at the eastern end of the runway

  • Approach lights

  • The Airport approach road

  • A BEA route advertisement

  • A main road still crossed the Airport in 1948

  • An aerial view of the airport from the northeast

  • A dakota in front of the original airport building

  • An aerial view in 1949

  • Work starts on No3 hangar

  • The landing lights viewed from an aircraft approaching the Airport from the east

  • DH89 Flamingo G-AFUE on the apron

  • Jersey Airways DH84

  • Bringing a German Junkers aircraft to Jersey in the early 1950s was not clever thinking by BEA

  • BEA Rapides in 1947

  • Dakotas on the apron in the late 1940s or early 1950s

  • DH-86 La Saline Bay

  • Loading a Dakota in 1948

The 1950s

The Viscount first made an appearance in the 1950s

  • A Sunderland flying boat in St Aubin's Bay in 1950

  • Airport approach in the early 1950s

  • Channel Airways Viking in 1951

  • An aerial view of Jersey Airport in the early 1950s

  • 1951 aerial view

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  • Loading Jersey cattle for export to the USA

  • Jersey Airlines brochure

  • Jersey Airlines Parade office in 1951

  • Jersey Airlines founder Maldwyn Thomas with pilot Capt Newman

  • Jersey Airlines Rapide

  • Rue Rose

  • Airport terminal

  • Pyrene fire appliance

  • Vickers Viking

  • Jersey Airlines Dakota

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • The Heron was a popular post-war commercial aircraft

  • The newspaper plane crashes in February 1951

  • One of the hangars at night in 1951

  • The terminal in 1951

  • The Huelin family chartered an aircraft for a holiday in France after a bumper potato season in 1951

  • A de Havilland Heron over Mont Orgueil

  • The inaugural flight from Paris in 1951

  • This DH89a Rapide belonging to Morton Air Services crashed in 1951

  • The aircraft survived and was eventually re-registered in Norway and Sweden

  • BEA Elizabethan

  • BEA tourism advert

  • BEA Dakota in 1955

  • A Dakota carrying freight in 1952

  • BEA's Jersey maintenance crew in the 1950s

  • BEA Pionair in 1954

  • The interior of the Pionair

  • A BEA Pionair in Jersey

  • BEA Rapide in 1954

  • The last BEA Rapide flight out of Jersey in 1955

  • BEA Rapide in 1957

  • The interior of a Rapide

  • BEA Viking

  • A new generation of airliners, BEA Viscount 701 in 1953

  • The larger Viscount 802

  • Marking the new tarmac runway in 1952

  • Surfacing the runway in 1952

  • The new tarmac runway

  • The airport from the northeast in 1952

  • The terminal in 1952

  • THe 1952 air display

  • An Elizabethan in 1952 - one of the most beautiful aircraft to land in Jersey

  • Airspeed Ambassador, called Elizabethan by British European Airways

  • British European Airways Elizabethan

  • Luxury for Elizabethan passengers

  • An Airspeed Ambassador in BKS colours

  • British European Airways Dakota and Elizabethan

  • Cambrian Airways routes brochure

  • Cambrian Dakota crew

  • A Cambrian Dakota on the apron at Jersey Airport

  • Derby Airways Dakota

  • Derby Airways Dakota

  • Landing lights at the western end of the runway

  • A North American Tornado at the 1952 air display

  • The airport in 1952 with Pine Farm in the foreground

  • The airport lounge in the 1950s

  • The spectators terrace in the 1950s

  • A Heron of the Queen's Flight

  • A Republic Thunderstreak at the 1953 air display

  • Heron and prototype Viscount on the apron in 1953

  • An S51 helicopter at the 1953 display

  • The 1953 air display

  • People queue to see inside the Elizabethan

  • The 1953 display

  • A Rapide between two Ambassadors

  • The airport apron in 1953

  • The Airport in 1953

  • Airport hangar in 1953

  • A jet overflies the Airport during the 1953 air display

  • A US Army Air Force Bell helicopter at the 1953 air display

  • The Patrouille d'Etampe, a formation team flying Stampe biplanes at the 1953 air display

  • A Stampe biplane shows off over an airliner in 1953

  • Thornycroft Sun fire appliance

  • Thornycroft Sun fire appliance

  • This Rapide which tipped up on the apron in about 1955 went on to fly the last Rapide service from Lands End to the Scilly Isles in 1963

  • The Rapide is righted

  • A dented nose shows clearly after the accident

  • A refuelling tanker at Jersey Airport

  • A De Havilland Heron flying over Jersey

  • A BKS Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Derby Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Silver City Airways Dakota at Jersey Airport

  • A Jersey phonecard depicting the Dakota

  • A British European Airways Dakota in the early 1950s

  • A Dakota in Jersey Airlines livery. They called it the Dakmaster

  • Flying over Corbiere

  • A British European Airways Dakota alongside the terminal

  • British United Airways Heron

  • Jersey Airlines Herons

  • Jersey Airlines Herons in front of the enlarged terminal building

  • The apron in the mid-50s

  • A Jersey Airlines Heron at Coventry Airport

  • De Havilland Heron

  • British European Airways Heron

  • A postcard of the airport terminal

  • The 1954 air rally

  • The forecourt in 1954

  • The terminal in 1954

  • An aerial view from 1955

  • The control tower in 1955

  • Another 1955 aerial view

  • The lounge in 1955

  • Jersey Airlines staff had new uniforms in 1956

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  • A heavy landing in 1956

  • An Elizabethan with collapsed undercarriage in 1956

  • The enlarged terminal building in 1956

  • The forecourt in 1956

  • The terminal in 1956

  • The enlarged terminal in 1956

  • The runway is extended in 1956

  • The approach from the sea in 1956

  • The terminal building in 1957

  • Car parking problems emerged in 1958

  • The forecourt in 1958

  • A prototype Viscount at the 1959 air display at Jersey Airport

  • The instrument landing system in 1959

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  • A British European Airways Dakota in flight

  • A BKS Dakota in Jersey in 1957

  • A brochure for the BKS Elizabethan

  • A Jersey Airlines Heron boarding in 1958

The 1960s

An enlarged terminal building at the end of the 1960s

  • Approaching the Airport from the east

  • Jersey Airlines Herald

  • 1961 Herald advertisement

  • Rousseau Aviation Dakota

  • BEA maintenance crew in the 1960s

  • 1968 aerial view

  • Post vans wait in front of the main hangar

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  • Unloading mail in the 1960s

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  • Snow at the Airport in 1962

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • The terminal building in the early '60s

  • The wreckage of a Percival Proctor in 1960

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  • Air Anglia Dakota

  • 1963 flight bulletin

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  • Crashed Percival Proctor

  • Clearing snow in the forecourt in 1962

  • BEA Viscount

  • Dan Air Heron

  • A Viscount in front of the airport buildings

  • A Viscount in the colours of Channel Airways

  • A Jersey Air Ferries Viscount at Manchester AirportFile:Cattle-exports69.jpg|Cattle being loaded for export in 1969

  • The wreck of the Dakota which crashed in fog in 1965

  • Work on Jersey Airport's runway meant that passengers had to be taken by helicopter to Guernsey to catch London flights in 1965-66

  • Before the 1969 enlargement

  • The control tower

  • The road layout in the 1960s

  • 1967 aerial view

  • An aerial view of the Airport in 1968

  • The Airport in 1968

  • Aer Lingus routes

  • Vickers Viscount

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • Construction work in 1969

  • The control tower

  • The framework of the new control tower

  • Steelwork for the 1969 extension

  • Air traffic control in 1969

  • Airfield control in 1969

  • The departure gates

  • The airport restaurant in 1969

  • After the 1969 enlargement

  • The baggage hall in the 1960s

  • BEA Viscount

  • BEA Viscount at Jersey in 1966

  • Channel Airways Dove

  • Dan Air Ambassadeur in 1965

  • Jersey European Viscount

  • Bristol Superfreighter

  • Bristol Superfreighter

  • BUA Superfreighter

  • Dan Air Ambassador in 1965

  • Morton Airways Heron

  • Loading the Silver City Freighter

  • Jersey Airlines Dakota

  • The Jersey Airlines fleet

  • Jersey Airlines pilots meet the Queen when Gatwick Airport is reopened

  • Jersey Airlines Heron

  • Jersey Airlines hostesses in 1968

  • Jersey Airlines Rapide

  • Jersey Airlines Rapide

  • Jersey Airlines Timetable

  • A flight bulletin for Gracie Fields

  • An early Jersey Airlines charter to St Brieuc

  • Two Jersey Airlines Dakotas on the ground in Exeter

  • BUA BAC 1-11

  • Cambrian Airways Viscount

  • The old aero club, demolished to make way for taxiway improvements

The 1970s

The BAC 1-11 jet was the headline maker in the 1970s

  • This BIA Herald crashed on Christmas Eve 1974 - there were no casualties

  • Another picture of the 1974 crash

  • A BAC-111 in 1970

  • British United Carvair, one of a number of aircraft used to carry cars over the years

  • Another Carvair

  • Cattle destined for Libya in 1975

  • An aerial view in the 1970s

  • The larger car ferry, Carvair, was occasionally operated to Jersey by BAF

  • British Air Ferries Herald

  • A British Air Ferries Viscount

  • A British Air Ferries Viscount on final approach to Jersey Airport

  • Touchdown for the BAF Viscount

  • Jersey Ferry Heron

  • Jersey Ferry Islander in 1973

  • Jersey Ferry Twin Pioneer in 1972

  • Aurigny Islander over Alderney

  • Aurigny flew the Islander in their early years

  • Aurigny Air Services Islander

  • British Caledonian BAC 1-11 at Jersey Airport

  • Channel Island pioneered jet services to Jersey and used the large Trident

  • Channel Airways Viking

  • Intra Airways Dakota

  • Intra Airways Viscount at Brussels in 1976

  • Jersey European 1979 timetable

  • Intra Airways Dakota

  • Commemorative cover for first Intra Airways flight in 1971

  • Intra Airways Viscount at Gibraltar

  • Joey, Aurigny's popular Islander

The 1980s onward

Aurigny's Trislander, the mainstay of inter-island flying at the end of the 20th century

  • The terminal in 1980

  • Dan Air HS748 in Jersey

  • Viscount in British Airways colours

  • British Air Ferries Short 330 in Jersey in 1987

  • Concorde overflies Jersey Airport in 1986

  • Concorde over the airport

  • Concorde makes a low pass

  • Air UK F27 Friendship

  • Jersey European Bandierante

  • Concorde over the Airport

  • Jersey European Fokker F27

  • Jersey European Shorts 360

  • Jersey European Shorts 360

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  • Jersey European chief executive Jim French

  • British Caledonian joint founder John de la Haye (2nd left)

  • British Air Ferries Short 330

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  • The Airport in the 1990s

  • BAe146 in flight over Jersey

  • The arrivals building from the new Control Tower in 2011

  • The former departure lounge in 1990

  • The new departure lounge in 1999

  • This magnificent sculpture was removed from the departure lounge and is now located on the roundabout close to the airport

  • 1998 air display - a Lockheed Constellation

  • The original 1930s terminal with its many additions, taken in 1999

  • Aurigny's Short 360 gave more capacity at peak times on the Jersey-Guernsey service

  • British Caledonian's Airbus 310

  • BMI's Boeing 737

  • British European's 2000 timetable

  • British European's BA 146 in 2001

  • A British Midland DC9 - a regular visitor

  • The new Departure Hall in 1999

  • Fly BE's 2002 timetable

  • A Jersey European BA146 at Heathrow

  • A Jersey European BAC 1-11 in 1998

  • British Midland DC-9

  • A Hurricane and Spitfire in the island for an air display

  • Aurigny Trislander

  • Aurigny aircraft

  • An aerial view in 2006

  • Jersey European BAe146

  • Jersey European Fokker F27

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