Liverpool to the USA by air in the 1950s?

Thank you both. I had wondered about a charter or USAF flight, but with larger airfields available
like Burtonwood that seems a bit more likely!
mmitch.

Certainly not direct from Liverpool, Speke in the 1950s. First charter transatlantic flights from Liverpool were in July 1966 by British Eagle Britannia and Aer Lingus Boeing 720/707, facilitated by the new 7,500ft runway 10/28 (now 09/27) opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 8th May 1966, the 50th anniversary of which quietly passed a week ago. However Aer Lingus did offer a scheduled USA service connection via their Dublin flights and often a stop at Shannon too by the early ’60s, maybe earlier. Otherwise it would have been Starways Dakota (or from 1958) Skymaster to London Air Port (Heathrow) for a connection by Stratocruiser/Douglas DC-7/Constellation, before Britannia/Boeing 707/Douglas DC-8 from the very end of the decade.

The nearest alternative airfield I can offer is Burtonwood (Warrington) with American Forces flights to/from the USA using civilian contractors such as Capital with L-749 Constellations. Also for or a short time in the ’50s BOAC Stratocruisers operated from Burtonwood while the runway at Manchester/Ringway was being relaid.

I think it was BOAC startocruisers from nearby RAF / USAF Burtonwood
Passengers being bused from Manchester, cannot remember the exact reason why but I have seen a thread in this in the past.