UK - London - Historic Croydon Airport tower

Croydon airport's control tower, the birthplace of commercial aviation in 1923 after service as a WW1 airfield. In this car park the world's first airliners (like the Imperial Airways Handley Pages) stopped, Charles Lindberg arrived to greet the king after his transatlantic solo flight and from where Amy Johnson flew solo as the first woman, to Australia.

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