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Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, i
de Havilland Albatross "Frobisher" class. The Speedbird trademark, was designed in 1932
Handley Page W.8b inherited from Handley Page Transport when Imperial Airways was formed
Argosy Class "City of Glasgow"
A 1936 advertisement
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
Imperial Airways
…32 people died in seven incidents. Imperial Airways never achieved the levels of technological innovation of its competitors and was merged into the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939. BOAC in turn merged with the British European Airways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways. The establishment of Imperial Airways…
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