COMMERCIAL AVIATION
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. . British commercial aviation celebrated its twentieth birthday recently. On the. morning of August 25, 1919. three aeroplanes left London for Paris, each with paying passengers. The first aeroplane to leave was a Handley Page. The second was Airco 4 piloted by Lieutenant E. H. Lawford, and the third an Airco 16. Though the Handley Page was the first commercial aeroplane to leave London on August 25. 1919, the Handley Page Transport Ltd did not begin their regular service until a week later. The distinction of inaugurating the service belongs, therefore, to the pilot of the Airco 4. He is now Captain Lawford, aerodrome offi - cer at Lympne.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 4
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111COMMERCIAL AVIATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 4
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