Entered Imperial Airways service in mid-1939. Opened a Shoreham - Bordeaux - Marseille - Tunis - Malta - Sollum - Alexandria service after the outbreak of war. British postcard.

One of the last photos of the DH.66 prototype. Then five years old, it crashed at Kupang during a proving flight from Britain to Australia in April 1931. This photo must have been taken in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) as one of the barrels appears to read 'De Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij' and the other 'Palembang'. The photo is indeed dated 1931 by the Dutch source. Note retrofitted enclosed cockpit. Photo from: KB - National Library of the Netherlands

'In service on the India route.' This one was the last of eleven DH.66 aircraft built, ordered as a replacement in 1929. She made a route proving flight to Cape Town in December 1931. The later DH.66 airframes featured an enclosed cockpit which was retrofitted to the earlier machines. Postcard.

Centaurus photographed during the flying boat's visit to New Zealand. Photo by: Leo White / Whites Aviation Collection / Alexander Turnbull Library

Cambria left from Foynes on a transatlantic proving flight on 29 July 1937. It looked like Foynes would become an important transatlantic terminal, but WWII killed the flying boat. The Foynes seaplane station closed in 1946, replaced by Shannon airport, not far away. Photo from: National Museum of Denmark

G-AAXE passing leisurely over the Suez Canal on the sector between Alexandra and Gaza. It was destroyed in a hangar fire at Karachi on May 31, 1937. Photo from: D.W.F Bonham-Carter DFC (via Jim Cownie)

Seen here after conversion from a single-pilot to a two-pilot cockpit. The date of this photo is between its arrival in Karachi on February 19, 1936 and the loss of Atalanta G-ABTK in a fire on September 29 that year. The two aircraft were sharing the airship hanger at Karachi airport. Impressed as HK844 in December 1941. Photo from: D.W.F Bonham-Carter DFC (via Jim Cownie)

The date of this photo is between the arrival of DH86 G-ACPL on February 19, 1936 and the loss of G-ABTK in a fire on September 29 that year. The two aircraft were sharing the airship hanger at Karachi airport. Photo from: D.W.F Bonham-Carter DFC (via Jim Cownie)

Seen at Tempelhof during its short career as a nocturnal mailplane. The Ju 52 seems to be D-AJIM, used reportedly by Nazi War Minister Werner von Blomberg. Photo from: Museum of Flight

Scan taken from undated slide.

Registered initially July 1926 to the Air Council for evaluation as a troop carrier. To Imperial Airways 23 April 1927. Later renamed 'City of Arundel' and in 1931 was fitted with Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IVA engines to bring it up to Argosy II standard. It is known to have been involved in two accidents. On 30 Nov.1929 it was badly damaged in a forced landing in bad weather near Frankfurt. The five occupants were uninjured and it was repaired and re-entered service but had another accident, at Sarzane, Italy on 13 Feb.1933. It was again repaired but final fate not known. Cancelled Dec.1934.

Date on original slide states 'About 1934'. Registered 16 August 1933, first flight 26 March 1934, piloted by J.Lankaster Parker. Made its inaugural flight from Croydon to Le Bourget 16 May 1934. It was wrecked by gales while parked at RAF Drem, Scotland 14 September 1940. (Parked in the background in this picture is the prototype DH.86, G-ACPL, operated by Imperial Airways, named 'Delphinus'.)

'Opening of the new Croydon airport [terminal].' The new buildings began operations on 20 January 1928 but were only officially opened on 2 May 1928. The old buildings on Plough Lane had not yet been fully demolished by then. The photo was most probably taken on 21 March when King Amaunalla of Afghanistan made a flight in G-EBOZ and inspected 'two lines of light aeroplanes, including privately owned DH Moths, which had been flown to Croydon.' G-EBOZ was still named City of Wellington on that occasion. It was renamed City of Arundel later on. Photo from: The Henry Ford

Registered -6 March 1922 to Instone Air Line. To Imperial Airways April 1924. Converted to DH.34B in 1925 Withdrawn from use and dismantled March 1926. Cancelled 20 January 1927.

Scanned from a glass slide dated just 'circa 1926'. Registered to Imperial Airways 15 September 1926. Shortly after take-off from Croydon on a local test flight on 13 July 1928, the aircraft crashed and was burnt out in a field at Purley, Surrey. The pilot and one passenger survived but the other four occupants died in the accident.

'Imperial Airways airplane landing at Amman.' Photo by: Clarence Sorensen / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The first Argosy I, registered 16 May 1925. Made its initial appearance at the Hendon RAF Display on -3 July 1926. Later named 'City of Glasgow' and on 15 June 1928 it took part in a race from Croydon to Turnhouse via the East Coast against the 'Flying Scotsman' express locomotive and won by 15 minutes. It was converted to Argosy II standard in 1931 by the fitting of Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IVA engines. It was withdrawn from use at Croydon in September 1934 and cancelled December 1934.

Replaced by Ikeja in 1942, Apapa airport in Lagos is almost forgotten. This photo was certainly taken there, presumably in early 1938, when a similar shot of Dione was published with the following caption: 'The Air Mail at Apapa, Lagos. A weekly air mail and passenger service is now in regular operation between Lagos and London. The service is by Kano and Khartoum.' G-ADFF is to DH.86B standard with auxiliary tailfins, which were fitted in April-May 1937. Damaged here at Lagos on 21 March 1939. Transferred to BOAC and to Egypt in 1940. Impressed as AX760 in 1941. Damaged at Lydda in November 1941 and written off in 1942. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois

Delia was sent Africa in late March 1936. In October 1937 it started a new route between Lagos and Accra on the Gold Coast, operated by Elders Colonial Airways from Freetown. Photo believed taken at Lagos - Apapa. Delia was transferred to the Far East in June 1938. Returned to Africa by BOAC, Delia crashed at Minna, Nigeria on 17 June 1941. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois