Armstrong Whitworth Ensign
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.
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign G-ADSR Ensign at the time of its rollout, in 1938
Ensign Mark.II, G-ADSV Explorer being refuelled at Accra in the Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile June 1937
British Overseas Airways Corporation
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services throughout World War II. After the passing of the Civil Aviation Act 1946, European and South American services passed to two further state-owned airlines, British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). BOAC absorbed BSAA in 1949, but BEA continued to operate British domestic and European routes for the next quarter century. The Civil Aviation Act 1971 merged BOAC and BEA, effective 31 March 1974, forming today's British Airways.
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
BOAC DC-4M-4 Argonaut G-ALHS "Astra" at London Airport (Heathrow) in September 1954