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Tracing the ‘routes’ of aviation in the Gulf

Bahrain News

By Naman AroraThu, 28 Jan 2021Thu, 28 Jan 2021

A plane is loaded with relief supplies at Bahrain Airport for the North Yemen earthquake victims

Adrian Hewlett, air traffic controller in 1986 and newsreader on Radio Bahrain

Concorde prepares to land at Bahrain International Airport

Construction for the 1994 extension of the airport

One of the Short Empire planes in Bahrain, circa 1940s

One of the early winners of the Bahrain Duty Free Draw, who drove away in a bright red Porsche (1993)

The first commercial flight ‘Hannibal’ (Handley Page HP-42) landing in 1932 from London

The first plane (de Havilland DH.60 Moth) landing in 1927 from Baghdad

The Batelco centre at the airport in 1992

HH the late Amir, Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, meets one of the pilots

The Concorde at Bahrain International Airport

The late Premier HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa inspects a model of the 1994 expansion in December 1991

The late Hakim of Bahrain, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, at the construction of one of the earlier expansions of the airport

The plan for the 1994 expansion (1986)

A huge Boeing 747 cargo plane that had a crash landing in 1984 at BIA

A cargo plane being loaded in 1988

The inflight catering centre in 1992

The new expansion of Bahrain International Airport builds on a 94-year history of being the region’s first airport and aviation hub. The Arabian Gulf’s oldest international airport can trace its roots to August 1927 when a de Havilland plane from Baghdad, chartered by a Bahrain pearl merchant, landed in Juffair, after an overnight stop in Basra .

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