Jersey Airport - Part 5

My history blog today comes from the 1980 edition of Aircraft Illustrated.

This is the final part of the article - the others can be read below:

http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/jersey-airport-part-1.html
http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/jersey-airport-part-2.html
http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/jersey-airport-part-3.html
http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2018/07/jersey-airport-part-4.html

British Isles 'Airports: No 10 Jersey
by David H. Kirkman
(Flightlines International)

Dan-Air HS748 srs2, G-BEBA, parked on the main apron at the States of Jersey Airport; in the background can be seen the airport's control tower.

Jersey Airport is utilised by Air Atlantique as a base for DC-3 freight charter work. One of the airline's aircraft, G-ANAF, is seen here. 

BEA Vickers Vanguards were a familiar sight on services to Jersey in the early-1970s. 

Intra Airways Vickers Viscount, G-BDRC, taking-off from Jersey Airport and framing the general aviation apron and hangarage in the background. The operations of Intra Airways were taken over by Jersey European Airways in 1979. 

A significant addition to the fleet of recently-formed Jersey European Airways (the airline was founded a year ago on 1 November 1979 when it took over the activities of Express Air Services and Intra Airways), has been two Embraer Bandeirantes. The aircraft, registered G-BHJY and G-BHJZ (the example seen here), are employed on short-haul services to Northern France. 

British Midland Airways DC-9,G-BFIH Dovedale.

A foreign visitor, in the form of Trans European Airways Boeing 737, 00-TEH Marcus Johannes, on finals to States of Jersey Airport. 

Jersey Airport is an ideal venue for an air rally and every year a large number of light aircraft attend the event which is usually held in the first week of May. Piper Comanche, G-ARIE, heads this line-up of aircraft at the 1980 rally.

A frequent visitor to the States of Jersey Airport, is this colourful Aurigny Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2A Trislander, G-AZU. Aurigny (the old French name for Alderney the airline's base) operates passenger and freight services within the Channel Islands linking Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney.