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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign was a British four-engine monoplane airliner and the largest airliner built in Britain during the Interwar period.
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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign G-ADSR Ensign at the time of its rollout, in 1938
Ensign Mark.I, G-ADTC Endymion in 1940 with wartime camouflage and roundels
Ensign Mark.II, G-ADSV Explorer being refuelled at Accra in the Gold Coast (now Ghana)
British Overseas Airways Corporation was the British state-owned national airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services th
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign
…problems and modifications only ever marginally improved performance and reliability. During the Second World War, the Ensigns were operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), which had been formed out of the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways. The type would be flown between Britain and various locations…
Pictured in 1970, this BOAC Boeing 747 marked the first arrival of a wide-bodied airliner to Manchester Airport.
A BOAC Boeing 314 Clipper lands on Lagos Lagoon, 1943
BOAC Avro York freighter operating a scheduled service at Heathrow in 1953
BOAC Short Solent 3 G-AHIN Southampton served the airline's route from the UK along the Nile to Johannesburg between 1948 and 1950