First registered Nov 1933. Possibly loaned to Bouts-Tillotson Transport Ltd, t/a Bouts Airlines, Hanworth 9 May 1934 for experimental Hanworth-Barton service. Later operated by Portsmouth Southsea & IoW Aviation Ltd. Earmarked for sale to Republicans in Spanish Civil War but sale blocked. Later owned or operated by Union Founders Trust Ltd, Portsmouth; North Eastern Airways Ltd, Croydon/Doncaster and finally Air Taxis Ltd, Croydon. Impressed as X9394, 29 Mar 1940 but believed stored at Northolt where it was damaged by enemy action and SOC April 1942.

Photo take soon after construction at the General Aircraft factory at Feltham.. Delivered to the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Ringway, Cheshire. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The R-3 was a two-seat trainer designed by Shiro Yoshihara. J-BEPB was flown from Tokyo to London via Siberia and then to Rome by Hosei University students Moritaka Kurimura and Ryotaro Kumakawa. Markings include NGKR - Nihon Gakusei Koku Renmei (Japanese Student Flying Society) and 第十義勇 or 'No 10 Volunteer Army'. Photo from: Dan Shumaker collection

The strikingly ugly ST-18 Monospar Croydon before its departure to Australia. In the background is an ST-25 Monospar Jubilee of Crilly Airways, G-ADPM, plus the huge Hanworth Park House manor near London Air Park where the GAL factory was from 1935. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Scanned from a Tipsy Aircraft postcard. First British Tipsy B. Destroyed by fire at Slough in 1952. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia