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 ...
That shape at the top of the stone (filled in with cement, we think) would have been used to hold an identifying shield, possibly lost fo...
Edmund Burke, author and statesman, lived here. B. 1729. D. 1797
On the map of 1862, when this area was first developed, it looks as easy to travel north-south on what is now Rutland Gate/Rutland Street...
Mazzini arrived in this house in 1840 when the address was 9 George Street.
From St Matthias Halls: "Church halls were built in 1902 (called St Matthias Institute) by voluntary subscriptions – downstairs being use...
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