page_title: Aquila Airways
section_title: Operations during 1952
hierarchical_section_title: Aquila Airways / Operations during 1952
caption_attribution_description: Short S.45 Solent 4 G-ANAJ "City of Funchal" of Aquila Airways at Berth 50 Southampton Docks
context_page_description: Aquila Airways was a British independent airline, formed on 18 May 1948 and based in Southampton, Hampshire.
context_section_description: In 1952 Short Solents were acquired second hand. The airline continued to operate schedules to Madeira and the Canary Islands with the newly acquired aircraft.
  In 1954 the British Aviation Services Group took control of Aquila Airways, the last commercial flying boat operator in the UK.
  Suez Crisis. In 1956 an Aquila Airways flying boat was used to evacuate civilian Suez Canal Company personnel, together with their families, from the Great Bitter Lake to Southampton water, via Grand Harbour, Malta.
  During the later 1950s, Aquila Airways faced increasing competition from land based aircraft and being unable to obtain replacement flying boats (offers to purchase the prototype Princess flying boats having been rebuffed), the company announced in July 1958 it would cease operating. This left TEAL as the only long range flying boat passenger airline.
caption: Aquila Airways Short Solent 4 G-ANAJ City of Funchal at Berth 50, Southampton Docks in 1955
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