Miles aircraft landing at Heston Airport
The ever elusive mystery landing at dusk of the Miles Hawk Major (most likely
G-ADWT in 1955) may possibly be solved in part. Although the current owner of
this aircraft was unable to find any record of a landing at Heston in his aircraft logbook, it would appear that the owner at this time being Cartwright-Hamilton Aviation,based at Croydon were a subsidary company of Fairey Aviation. This being so then the reason
for this impromptu visit could have been a liason meeting with Fairey Aviation either that evening or following day, since the aircraft was towed into Hestair's hangar and the doors shut for the night.
Cartwight Hamilton were aviation consultants and dealing with aircraft brokerage and spares to commercial operators and private owners. The period 1955/6 and the fact that it was probably in the autumn/winter between November and February when the sun set times most meet the criteria from when I remember seeing the aircraft land. Also another possibilty could have been the pilot running out of VFR and setting down due to that, or even airline traffic at LHR meaning that a short 16 mile dash to Croydon across the LHR approach could have meant ATC problems-even assuming that he had some means of radio communication.
All of course is debatable.
None of the other Miles aircraft G-ADMW or HKY, ( CYO crashed late 1954) seem to fit the solution quite as well as DWT.
Lawrence Hole