Cobham Air Routes

Cobham Air Routes was a 1930s British airline formed in 1935 to operate a service between Croydon and the Channel Islands.

Following the loss of an aircraft in a fatal accident the airline was sold to Olley Air Service.

[1] Following the loss of the Wessex aircraft on 3 July 1935, Cobham decided to withdraw from the airline business and sell the company to Olley Air Service.

In 1973 the Guernsey Post Office issued a 3p stamp depicting the Wessex G-ADEW to represent the three aircraft used by Cobham on services to the island, to commemorate 50 years of commercial flying to the island.

[4] Photo of Cobham Air Routes Envoy at Croydon in Swissair Archives https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/238434