Many of the photographs here, below and right, were unable to be printed due to quality issues so this website provides me with a good opportunity display them here.

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Above: The airport's first manager, Wilma Le Cocq, had many jobs including tending to and moving cows off the airfield, as well as delivering telegraphs, taking bookings and, together with 70-year-old Sam Allen, handling the aircraft. This arrangement lasted from 1936 to 1940 and the evacuation (Alderney Magazine, late 1980s).

The Handley Page Herald is, so far, the largest aircraft to visit Alderney. Popping in during mid-September 1956 for a demonstration, it used less than half of the 900yd runway available to it (Ralph Burridge).

Some say that the Trislander was a step down from the de Havilland Heron, which airlines reported that whilst being comfortable was uneconomical to operate to Alderney. Here, a Morton Air Services aircraft sits on Alderney about to take a family back to the Mainland (Alderney Museum).

Similarly, a Heron of Morton Air Services is seen here basking in the summer sun on the tarmac at Alderney in 1971 (John Elsbury).

Using spacious and comfortable de Havilland Herons on its Alderney routes, Jersey Airlines provided passengers with efficient links from the island direct to some UK destinations as well as the other islands (Richard Hunt).

The above two images, the former an artist's impression and the latter the designs, are of another of Britten-Norman's designs. The Britten-Norman Mainlander was a proposed piston-engined replacement for the Lockheed Hercules military transport aircraft, and it is obvious that its origins are placed firmly in the Trislander (Flight magazine).

Another design was the Clark-Norman Triloader, which surfaced in 1993 but failed for lack of funds (Flight magazine).

Seen here in on finals to Alderney's east-west runway on a dusky autumn evening, the Trislander should continue to grace the Island's skys for years to come with no cheap and easy replacement (that is not to say replacements do not exist), the aircraft being the only 18-seat piston type on the market (Author's collection).

However, the Dornier 228 is a 19 seat turboprop and whilst air fares would rise further, there would still be an air link. Here, an aircraft of the type operated by manx2 (an Isle of Man based airline started by Noel Hayes, owner of Le Cocq's and former owner of Rockhopper) taxis at Alderney after a training flight, followed by a Trislander of Aurigny (Still from video: David Earl, BBC Alderney).

A sad moment in Alderney's aviation history is captured here, as the last Blue Islands flight bound for Alderney taxis for take-off from Bournemouth. For over a decade the airline operated the route at first with Islanders and then with Trislanders, partly to serve as competition to Aurigny's Southampton route and partly to keep a supply of fresh perishable goods available to Le Cocq's Stores (Matt Richmond).