‘Supermarine Spitfire IXE aircraft of No. 412 (Falcon) Squadron, RCAF, preparing for take off, Heesch, Netherlands, March 22, 1945. Photographer unknown.’
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/faces-of-war/025014-2200-e.html

quote: Do someone has pics of this factory in England??

… no pic but a short mention
‘With the opening of the new road, however, Purley Way became the principal industrial district of Croydon. The site of the National Aircraft Factory, which immediately after the First World War became the Aircraft Disposal Company, was later developed as a factory estate, occupied by firms such as Redwing Aircraft Ltd, Bourjois Ltd (perfumes) and British NSF Ltd (electrical components).’
http://www.croydononline.org/history/places/purleyway.asp

.. and a book title:
The great war-plane sell-off : the story of Croydon’s Aircraft Disposal Company and its aeroplanes 1920-1931
by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
ISBN 1904514189

Aircraft Disposal Company (Airdisco) ADC

Wasn’t Langley used afterwards as the site for a Ford truck factory?

see #2 😉

Can’t open this link 🙁
http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=39101

X2LG Langley, Parlaunt Farm
N 51 29 47, W 00 32 20,
opened 1938,
use on 1st Dec 1944: Hawker production
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/06airfields/UK/Airfields_2.htm

‘Between 1938-50 Langley was the site of the former Hawker Siddley aircraft factory, Hawker built the famous Hurricane and other fighter aircraft in Sutton Lane. This later became a manufacturing plant for Ford Iveco…
…the Hawker Hurricane which Hawker built at the Langley factory early in 1944, just six miles from what became Heathrow airport.’
http://www.langleyvillage.co.uk/history2.htm

http://www.sloughmuseum.co.uk/hurricanes.htm

History:
Spartan Air Services Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Dec. 9, 1954-1957.
– Civil conversion, Burnaston, UK, 1954-1955.
– Registered as CF-HMQ.
– Delivered to Canada, arriving Ottawa, June 2, 1955.
Spartan Air Services (Eastern) Ltd, Nov. 1957 – Registration VP-COM reserved but not taken up.
– Delivered from Ottawa to Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 1957.
Spartan Air Servies Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, 1957-1967.
– Reregistered as CG-HMQ.
– Returned to Canada via Prestwick, May 4, 1958.
– Last flight, Grand Prarie to Uplands, Ontario, Oct. 7, 1963.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/mossieregistry/mossie-vp189.html

Canadian Aviaton Historical Society journal, Vol. 32 No. 4 Winter 1994,
The Spartan Air Services Mosquitoes

Photo
http://www.kwarc.org/bulletin/98-04/summerjob.html

XM192 – Charles Ross. On loan to Thorpe Camp, Woodhall Spa
XR725 – Charles Ross, Chestnut Farm, Binbrook village, Lincs.
XS899 – Front Fuselage. Charles Ross; RAF Coltishall
http://macksaviation.com/preserved.php?show=main

It was a Gallery, a Restaurant and a Travel Agency. It wasn’t a real aircraft but a well known landmark for over 37 years. It was demolished and scrapped around 2002 – the reason – financial difficulties. 🙁

‘La tête de Mamer !
RadioCockpit est de plus en plus lu en Belgique, grâce notamment à des rédacteurs de choc. J’ai trouvé un article qui relate la triste fin d’un restaurant-avion à Mamer, qui fut pendant près de 37 ans un des symboles de la commune.
Il ne pouvait pas voler mais était réputé pour ses formes esthétiques et aérodynamiques ainsi que pour son originalité, et a renfermé, pendant de longues années, un restaurant et en dernier lieu une agence de voyages.
Or, il a récemment été démonté et mis à la ferraille. L’incompréhension de la population est grande. La raison du crash de Mam’air – comme on appelait le jet – serait, d’après son ancien propriétaire, des difficultés financières. Il coûterait trop cher et encombrerait l’accès à son dépôt…’
2002-02-01
http://www.eurocockpit.com/archives/indiv/E000659.php

Martin

Haven’t seen the film since I was a teenager, but my memory is that the Rutland Reindeer was a somewhat modified Avro Ashton. Google images is no help on this one – can anyone conform or confound my recollection?
I also think I’ve seen this one in the flesh, so to speak, in Luxembourg as wieesso says.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=229057 #9
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/newk/Ashton_01.jpg