Opening new airline markets

IN SERVICE DE HAVILLAND DRAGON The first Dragon II, G-ACMC, was delivered to Jersey Airways in December 1933 and named St Brelade’s Bay. AEROPLANE The first Dragon was re-finished in Hillman’s Airways’ colours and registered G-ACAN, with fleet number 7 on the nacelles. It went to Hillman’s on 20 December 1932, when it was christened Maylands after the airline’s home airfield near Romford, Essex by Amy Mollison (née Johnson). The type’s inaugural commercial flight took place on 1 April 1933,