Battersea Heliport photo

[HughMartin]

I took this photo of Battersea heliport many years ago (I'm not admitting to how many but it was more than 20).

Does anyone have a recent photo taken from roughly the same point to compare purely for historical interest?

Sorry about the poor quality but it is a very old photo!

[Helinut]

If you took a photo from the same place today, you would hardly see the pad for apartment blocks and tower cranes

[Hilico]

The a/c you took the picture from, please tell me it had duals and the left-seater was flying.

[HughMartin]

Have just dug out my old log books. The a/c was B206 G-AVXO and the flight was 13th June 1974.

The a/c would have had duals but I probably had my lunch (or what was left of it) on the left hand seat.

1st Edit;-

Having just checked the CAA database to find what happened to G-AVXO, I discover it is a BN Islander!! Dyslexia sets in. The reg should have been G-AXVO !!

2nd Edit;-

Something definitely wrong here. Its now a BAC 111 !!!!! Time to check for the third time.

3rd Edit;-

I give up. More important things to do. Where's the corkscrew darling??

[IHL]

Helico, taking pictures from the pilots seat in a 206 is really quite easy , just hold the cyclic with your knees.

[HeliEng]

Hugh

G-AWVO perhaps.

Still alive and kicking as G-WIIZ!!!!!

[paco]

I always seemed to come in from the other direction - that's about my vintage!

Phil

[Heliport]

Approach from the West.
Taken November 2003



Click here for full size

[AlanM]

This was overflying on 2002

In the "good" old days of Metro....



and from the control tower.....

[HughMartin]

Thanks Speechless, I really don't know. It would have been on high skids with floats. I was with Bristows at Redhill at the time. Anyone know if Bristows owned G AXGO in the mid 70's?

[MPR]

G-AXGO ownership...

AXGO first registered from new on 20-05-1969 to Stewart Smith & Co. Ltd.

then registered on 24-10-1975 to Charles Hugheson trading as Tradewinds Helicopters.

Destroyed on 02-03-1978 in the Severn Estuary, cancelled by CAA on 14-04-1978.

Never owned by Bristows, but these 206's were....
AVIG, AVIH, AVII, AVSV, AVSW, AVSX, AVSY, AVSZ, AWFV, AWIL, AWIM, BLPL, AWLV, AWVO, AXAP, AXKE, AXKF, AXNG, AXOU, AXRY, AYIY, AWMK, AYMH, BEWY, BAUN, BBNG, BLVV, BHMV.

BEAS owned BBOS & AYMW. They were probably based at Redhill as well.

Trivia - AVII is the longest continuously registered helicopter in the UK to a single owner - Bristow registered it on 10-03-1967, 16,000+ hours later, it's still going. Photo

Hope it helps track down the JR you are looking for.

MPR

[rotorcraig]

Here is some video taken by 221B and myself from an R44 following the heli-lane along the Thames from East to West, Millenium Dome to the Battersea Heliport.

http://beast.gxn.net/spr/videos/london.mpg

Thanks to SteveR for hosting. Warning - big file 39Mb

RC

[The Nr Fairy]

"Water sampling" - did someone tell him that he only needed to fill a small bottle, not the whole aircraft ?

[MarkJJ]

Photos of Battersea Heliport

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have or now where I can get a picture of Battersea heliport by night would like to know what the lighting looks like on approach.

Cheers

[Savoia]

Maybe try Google Earth (night?) or Metpol!

[PotentialPilot]

Massive differences to the Heliport.
I can't believe how clear the area looks back in 1974..

[JulieAndrews]

now an excellent facility - just a shame about the turbulence the glossy buildings cause!
Staff with initiative and pride - not used to that!!

[Hilico]

New Yawk's got how many heliports? And London still has...just Battersea? And it looks these days as though they've fenced it in?

Someone should persuade the bloke that owns LCY to buy a helicopter. Planning permission was given on the understanding they only allowed turboprops in there - until he bought a jet.

[puntosaurus]

Here's one from 2005, before the new hotel, but similar perspective

[MarkJJ]

Thanks so far guys some mega photos, this night shot seem hard to find though!