Apologies
kar42 and others, the website is a tad out of date. I've been busy (Cambridge interviews this week) but will put time into it sometime. Research since has revealed a few other claims to the title of largest aircraft in Alderney, and they go quite a way to displace that of an errant Let 410.
The Handley Page Herald which landed on a demo flight in Sept 1956 is probably the most well-known - the fact that it used only about 450yds of runway despite being loaded with HP officials and press is testament to its STOL capability. Alas with four old Leonides it was also dated by the time it left the factory and hence the progression to Darts, which made it a whole lot more competitive.
To my knowledge GR never brought a Shorts into Alderney. The 'age of the Shed' was also one where by today's standards they had a huge fleet of Trislanders (nine at one stage) - so ACI was well-served. However, there was a Cessna Citation owner in the 1990s who flew his machine off a grass strip in Sweden and brought it down to Alderney several time - probably the fastest jet to have landed in the island.
Sometime in the 1960s-70s (and perhaps more than once) an RAF Andover brought members of the Royal Family down to Alderney - somewhere in the Alderney Museum archive there is a very grainy picture. Keith Webster (who retired a couple of years ago as Airport Manager and Breakwater Superintendent amongst other things) said there'd been a Herc down on a few occasions although one again, no substantative research for this other than word-of-mouth.
Lastly, in Sept 1939 a Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow more or less crashlanded at ACI with some very secretive experimental navigational equipment onboard. As a heavy bomber with an empty weight alone of 13,600lb I suspect this nabs the title of largest aircraft ever in Alderney. It flew off after a couple of months' work by some engineers flown down from the mainland to get fixed up sharpish before anyone got their mits on it. One of then met a local girl and moved back to live in Alderney after the occupation. Story related very well in the
Alderney Press sometime in the last couple of years.
Apologies for thread-drift, but it was being discussed. Perhaps best to continue it on the
ALDERNEY thread.