A man who used to work in Croydon between June 1999 and January 2000 is hoping Heritage readers might be able to help him with information about an unusual experience he had when visiting a warehouse on the site of the old Croydon Airport.
Terence Hart wrote to us: "Some years ago I was working in the Croydon area and had to visit a warehouse - it may have been a perfume warehouse or a bonded warehouse - by the airport.
"One of the employees offered to show me a crashed aircraft.
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"He removed a board in the wall of the building and in the light of his torch I could just make out an old plane with spoke wheels and solid rubber tyres.
"This was one of the most amazing sights I have ever seen. The plane, I was told, was one of the first postal aircraft.
"It had landed short of the runway and crashed and the pilot was killed and the aircraft was not allowed to be moved for some reason, or could not be moved.
"I would like to know more about this and wonder if you have heard this story before?"
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