Land’s End Airport

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

387

Date Released

28 May 1962

Date recorded

4 May 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

688

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fisherman Artist
2. 2Land’s End Airport
3. 3Tamar Bridge

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe Synoposis - Despite the massive organisation and complex systems involved in running an airport today, we found a piece of the past at Land’s End. There, at a tiny airfield called St Just, the last commercially flying wood-and-fabric aircraft still make round trips to the Scilly Isles. The ‘planes date back to the mid-thirties, but the story goes that even jet pilots take their sons to Land’s End to show them "some real flying".

Keywords

Aviation; Aircraft

Locations

London; St Just; Cornwall; England; Land’s End; London Heathrow Airport

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

217

Story extras:

Film clip

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