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COMMERCIAL AVIATION
LONDON TERMINAL AERODROME,
CROYDON

1. ORGANIZATION.

The London Terminal Aerodrome, Croydon, is a State-owned Customs aerodrome under the direction of the Controller General of the Civil Aviation, and is the principal British Air Port for the Continental Air Services. Here aircraft entering or leaving this country can obtain a Customs clearance as do ships at seaports.

The Aerodrome is under the immediate control of a Civil Aviation Traffic Officer who is helped by two Assistant Traffic Officers and by Wireless, Meteorological, and other Staff.

The latest types of ground equipment affecting such matters as night-flying, meteorological information, signalling, etc., are installed.

Notice Board situated near the Customs Office give full details of machines due to arrive or depart during the day, of those actually in transit and of the times at which aeroplanes pass over Lympne Aerodrome on their way to or from the Continent.

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