One of the last residents at Portsmouth was this J F Airlines Scottish Aviation Pioneer, G-APHY, seen here taking off from its base in September 1971.

A group of onlookers gaze at part of the PSIOW fleet at Portsmouth in 1937. The Westland Wessex G-ARVB was specially built for the airline’s high density routes, and metal tubing replaced the wooden members in the wings. The General Aircraft Monospar ST-4 survived in Australia until 1954, but D.H.60 G-AAAG crashed into the Solent on November 1, 1934, after a low level stall, the two occupants being drowned.

No 13. Airspeed Envoy G-AENA in company with Percival Mew Gull ZS-AHO, Baragwanath at Portsmouth on the eve of the Portsmouth to Johannesburg Race in September 1936.

The only Courier A.S.5C was powered by a 325 h.p. Napier Rapier IV.

TRANSPORT RACING: The one machine in the South African race which is equipped as a long-distance machine should be equipped - Waller and Findlay's Envoy. In addition to the safety provided by two Siddeley Cheetah IX engines and full blind-flying equipment, this machine has Marconi two-way and D/F radio and carries a radio operator.
Unlucky No 13. Airspeed Envoy G-AENA at Portsmouth on the eve of the Portsmouth to Johannesburg Race in September 1936. The aircraft crashed at Abercorn in North Rhodesia, killing Max Findlay.