Airviews Manchester

[ATR43]

Airviews Mcr was a Manchester (Ringway) based aerial photographic company who I know operated a Beagle Auster D5 from 1970 to 1976 does anyone have anymore detail on the company's history please and if their archive has survived.

Many thanks

[kenparry]

I grew up around Manchester and seem to remember the name from the 1950s. Did they produce postcards? Sorry, no confirmed details.

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

https://www.airhistory.net/operators/3997/Airviews

You might like to invest in a copy of British Independent Airlines 1946-1976 by A.C. Merton Jones (Single Volume Edition published by Aviation Hobby Shop).

[SWBKCB]

Bruce Martin's company was called Airviews and I'm led to believe the archieve was bought by Aerofilms.

it's all now part of English heritage at this address......

Archive Services, English Heritage, The Engine House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon SN2 2EH. [email protected]

From post 168 on this thread

https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/269384-manchester-airport-then-now-9.html

[The AvgasDinosaur]

A lot of the company archives were in the Manchester Airport Archives which have been skipped !

[condor17]

Airviews Mcr was my 1st aviation employer . I was there in autumn 1973 , flying Beagle [ Auster ] Husky D.5 G-ASNC . Pale yellow with white titles/reg. in the smallest palest paint allowed [ in case of any necessary low flying ] . Bruce Martin was my boss , forgotten the office photo whizz's name [ Terry ? sorry ] . A soon to be life long mate was hanging out the back with the cameras .
We took photos of houses , factories , building jobs , motorway construction , river surveys , verticals , obliques , timed verticals, all to order . Our brief was if going past anything interesting , archeologically / newsworthy speaking ; to shoot it . Personally went from Essex to N. Wales , and South coast to Edinburgh.
1/2 million map normal nav aid , if looking for small village 1/4 mill. , or OS 50,000 maps . But in towns the the A-Z was the best nav aid.
At w/es could be joyrides from the end of the domestic pier in MAN . A/c kept in Black sheds on Southside . Office in one of the wartime vintage blocks just west of the Pub at the threshold to Rwy 24 [ as was ] .
Big 2 handed WW2 green camera with cassette of film clipped on to the back .
KP , yes I think they did produce postcards .
Bruce had told of competing in a Manchester ? to IOM air race and landing on the slopes of Snaefell as the closest he could get to the finish .
Lost touch after that , so have no knowledge of where archives went to . Sorry .
'NC still active at Peterborough [ towing gliders ? ] .

rgds condor .

[ATR43]

Many thanks one and all, very much appreciated.

[barry lloyd]

Nostalgia IS what it used to be! Taken at Ringway circa 1960. Feel free to copy it, frame it and put it on your wall :) (my photo)

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/930x433/1_008_1_62c3477c4c67d5272fe6204cf26f83ba3e197dff.jpg

[Krystal n chips]

Nostalgia IS what it used to be! Taken at Ringway circa 1960. Feel free to copy it, frame it and put it on your wall :) (my photo)

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/930x433/1_008_1_62c3477c4c67d5272fe6204cf26f83ba3e197dff.jpg

Ah, the immortal "GXN " !.......possibly the most well known aircraft to have operated from MAN over the years.

[ETOPS]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x647/1363141_large_b75afc03f3e1f0ada4b4705b63166cceb99e7545.jpg
Came in later at MAN so remember’BV as the joy-ride aircraft.

[Suzeman]

A lot of the company archives were in the Manchester Airport Archives which have been skipped !

Do you mean that Airviews stuff has been skipped or the whole lot?

Brian Robinson initially set up the archive and collected lots of memorabilia and artifacts about all the companies on the airport from its foundation in the 1930s. I contributed a few. If the whole lot has gone, I'm speechless - but not surprised.