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Old 25th Nov 2018, 10:27
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by chevvron
There was a hangar on the SW corner of Heston airfield in the '60s with 'Fairey Aviation' on the roof; I think in the '70s it housed the BA Social Club.
I think the three former Fairey hangars were on the western edge of the airfield, on the site of the old Heston Aircraft Company hangar.

They were pulled down some time before the BA social club building (latterly the Concorde Club, nowadays the Concorde Centre) was built at the BOAC Sports Club site in the 1960s.

This photo, from an old PPRuNe thread, looks like the Fairey hangars in the background at the 1951 BOAC Sports Festival:



PPRuNe: BOAC Sports Festival at Heston Airport

Edit: The three Fairey hangars were indeed on the site of the HAC (and later British Airways) hangar, but they were on the western end of the control tower/terminal/hangar complex on the south side of the airfield, rather than the west side, so not really anywhere near the BOAC/BA club.

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