This plaque marks the spot where on Sunday 27 June 1982, Captain Harry Gee of Brymon Airways landed his DHS Dash 7 on Heron Quay.
E14, Heron Quays
City Airport was built about 3 miles to the east of this test landing site.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Heron Quays Station
The landing of a STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft in the heart of L...
Former airline co-founded by journalist Bill Bryce and racing driver Chris Am...
DHC stands for De Havilland Canada. It was a turboprop-powered airliner with ...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
Why, you ask, is this plaque attached to a low, free-standing, purpose-built pillar thing rather than to the building? Because the build...
Our thanks once again to David Hopkins for his generosity with his Latin knowledge.
This plaque forms part of the access door to the fountain's workings.
{Circular plaque:} {Circular plaque, around a drawing of the viaduct and St James's Bermondsey church, above a shield and a banner:} Lond...
