Airfield Collection (page 9)

The Avro Lancaster and her crew of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, complete another flight. 14th May, 1977

A retired RAF English Electric Lightning jet fighter aircraft on display outside RAF Boulmer. 1st February, 1980

North East men are onboard this RAF Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft, seen taking off at Topcliffe, Yorkshire, it was on its way to Greenland where another Hastings carrying 12 men was

The Hawker Siddley Hawk trainer / ground attack aircraft, was rolled out for the first time at the companys airfield at Dunsfld in Surrey. 12th August, 1974

Twelve BAC Jet Provost training aircraft perform a fly past for thirteen RAF officers who received their wings at a passing out parade at RAF Acklington. 14th May, 1964

A Handley Page Dart Herald airliner of British Air Ferries on charter to Dan-Air on the apron at Newcastle Airport after it had been invovled in a full scale emergency alert after a wheel brake

A 35, 000 Piper Seneca charter aircraft, which was painted all black with gold lines similar to the aircraft used by Playboy boss Hugh Hefner

A secret test flight of a Hawker Siddeley (Bae) Nimrod ended in an emergency at Newcastle Airport. The plane landed just hours before the Government was expected to announce a decision in favour of

The Britten-Norman Trislander mail aircraft which made an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport after a fire broke out aboard

A North American Harvard dual control training aircraft passes over a Supermarine Spitfire XIV on the ground at RAF Ouston. 31/05/1947

A Tipsy Trainer 1 entered by K C Millican of Newcastle into the Woolsington Air Race 1950. 29th July 1950

The de Havilland Tiger Moth, based at Sunderland Airport, which developed engine trouble while taking off. Pilot Steve Marples glided the aircraft down onto a field near Barmston pond

A De Havilland Trident airliner, later to be known as the Hawker Siddeley Trident, the aircraft is seen here in BEA livery. 23rd January 1962

A British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven, also known as the BAC-111 or BAC 1-11, short-range jet airliner seen here in British Caledonian livery. 22/03/1975

A de Havilland Tiger Moth landing on an airfiield. 02 / 07 / 1977
A de Havilland Tiger Moth landing on an airfiield. 02/07/1977

A Supermarine Spitfire Mk PRXIX and Avro Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Newcastle Airport. Part of the Lancaster crew, to arrive from RAF Coningsby, was RAF master engineer

Supermarine Spitfire F22 s, of 607 County of Durham Squadron, taxi for take off at the RAF station at Ouston. The squadron was taking part in the commemoration of the 9th anniversary of the Battle of

This Supermarine Spitfire was flown into Usworth Airport by squadron leader John Hobbs for the Sunderland Flying Clubs display

A Shorts Skyvan at Newcastle Airport. 10 / 01 / 1990
A Shorts Skyvan at Newcastle Airport. 10/01/1990

The Tupolev Tu-114 Rossiya, was the largest commercial aircraft in the world. 140 business men where to fly from London Airport for Moscow as guests of Mr Roy Thomson

The RAF Queens Flight BAe 146-C1 (ZE701) aircraft leaves Newcastle Airport taking the Duke of Edinburgh after his official visit to the area. 15/02/1991

A Beagle Auster Terrier two / three seat trainer-tourer aircraft with a de Havilland Gipsy Major piston engine. The aircraft is seen here at the 22nd Farnborough Show, the biggest to date

An USAF Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support tankbuster aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport with one engine shut down

A Bombardier Dash 8 ( formerly the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 or DHC-8 ), is a twin-engined, medium range, turboprop airliner

An Air Malta Boeing 737 at Newcastle International Airport. 05 / 08 / 1985
An Air Malta Boeing 737 at Newcastle International Airport. 05/08/1985

The six seated, three-engined Westland Wessex monoplane aircraft pictured at Cramlington Aerodrome. The plane had been especially designed for business travel

A MISR Egyptian Airlines is loaded up before take off at Newcastle Airport. 04/11/1984

An Avro 504 biplane carries a daring wing walker of the Cornwall Aviation Co. Ltd. St Austell at Sir Alan Cobhams Cramlington flying display in 1932. Cramlington airfield, aerodrome, airport

An Irish International Aer Lingus Boeing 707 airliner flew into Newcastle Airport to carry 167 Tynesiders to America for a three week holiday. 21/07/1970

Pilot Lynn Barton flies a Dan-Air British Aerospace 146 (BAe 146), a medium-sized commercial airliner/aircraft also known as the Whisper Jet, into Newcastle Airport. Circa January 1985

A new Dan-Air Boeing 737 lands at Newcastle Airport as a workman works on an adjoining runway. 04/05/1985 (circa)

The Farnborough Airshow preview day 1962. The Beagle B206 (Bassett) twin engined light aircraft intended for business executives. 03/09/1962

The Air Malta Boeing 737 which started a major alert at Newcastle International Airport after the pilot had reported a fault in the aircrafts hydraulic system. 20/10/1978

A Britannia Airways Boeing 737 airliner / aircraft about to depart from Newcastle Airport. 27/09/1990

A BKS Bristol Britannia airliner / aircraft made an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport with the 33 passengers onboard unware that anything was wrong. 08/10/1966

A Beagle Pup 150 light aircraft at the Newcastle Flying School, Newcastle Airport. 17/07/1972

A Dan-Air British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven, (BAC-111, or BAC 1-11), was a British short-range jet airliner. This particular aircraft was named City of Newcastle in a ceremony at Newcastle

The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C Mk1 freightercoach aircraft which has a fare-cutting airbus version. The plane has four Rolls Royce Dart turbo-prop engines

Pictured is the second USAF Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support tankbuster aircraft, in three weeks to make an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport

A British Airways 757 taxis past an Air UK Fokker F27 at Heathrow Airport. 17/11/1986

The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy freightercoach aircraft which has a fare-cutting airbus version. The plane has four Rolls Royce Dart turbo-prop engines

A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 aircraft at Newcastle Airport, November 1997

The prototype Bristol Brabazon (Type 167) was a large airliner, designed to fly transatlantic routes from the United Kingdom to the United States

RAF Gloucester Gamecock biplane fighters pictured at Cramlington the day before the air pageant. 21/08/1931

An RAF Avro Shackleton Mk2 aircraft carrying top secret radar equipment. The plane limped 50 miles to make an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport with two of its four engines out of action

A Braathens SAFE Boeing 737 airliner / aircraft at Newcastle Airport. September 1992 (circa)

Suez Crisis 1956 British Paratroopers in Cyprus loading canisters with equipment to be dropped by aircraft. The day after these pictures were taken the British launched their airbourne attack

No 601 City of London Squadron parade their new Bell Airacobras for the press at Duxford, 17 October 1941

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