> Heathrow has been an airfield since the 1930s. A private airfield, owned by Richard Fairey for his use and that of his owner-pilot friends in the Royal Aeron

> Heathrow has been an airfield since the 1930s. A private airfield, owned by Richard Fairey for his use and that of his owner-pilot friends in the Royal Aeronautical Society, who had their annual picnic there. The London hub airport in that era, and into the late 1940s, was Croydon.