Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1936
On 24 March 1936 the first flight carrying airmail from London arrived in Hong Kong via Penang. This map from ' The Far Eastern Review' shows the new Far Eastern Air Routes used by Britain's 'The Imperial Airways'. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1936
On 24 March 1936 the first flight carrying airmail from London arrived aboard The Imperail Airways aircraft "Dorado" from Penang. This phot , scanned from the June 1936 edition of 'The Far Eastern Review' shows the aircraft crew being welcomed by a party of VIPs inside the hangar ar Kai Tak aerodrome <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1936
Published in the June 1936 edition of 'The Far Eastern Review' this timetable shows the timings for the newly established once-weekly England-Australia service by The Imperial Airways with connections from Penang to Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1936
On 24 March 1936 the first flight carrying airmail from London arrived aboard The Imperial Airways aircraft "Dorado" from Penang. This photo , scanned from the June 1936 edition of 'The Far Eastern Review' shows the aircraft crew with the the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Andrew Caldecott inside the hangar ar Kai Tak aerodrome. <Read more ...>
It may be interest or not to readers who follow Cathy Pacific’s history that one of its Douglas DC 6B propeller-driven airliners is still active in 2019 after an exceptionally long life for this type of aircraft.
Owned by Cathy as VR-HFK and operated from Kai Tak during 1958-62, it was sold to the Norwegian airline Braathens South America & Far East Airlines that had pioneered the early post-war years “school-children” flights to and from Hong Kong enabling children at boarding schools in Europe to return to their parents for the holidays. <Read more ...>
