From 1946 until 1958 Gatwick station was renamed Gatwick Racecourse, even though racing had been abandoned in 1940 and not been re-instated after the Second World War.

The reason for this was that there was no provision in the original 1946 Bermuda agreement that would have allowed British Caledonian ( BCal ), then the UK's foremost wholly privately owned, independent international scheduled airline, to use the licences the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) had awarded it in 1972 to begin daily scheduled services from its London Gatwick base to Houston and Atlanta.

In 1981, in an annex to Bermuda II, both sides agreed to automatically nominate Gatwick as the gateway airport for London for any London – US route that did not already exist under the original 1946 Bermuda agreement.

* 1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport

The movie began filming on April 15, 1946 at a variety of locations, including the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood and the Samuel Goldwyn / Warner Hollywood Studios.

Lancastrian G-AHBW operated the company's first commercial flight, from London Airport ( Heathrow ) to Sydney via Johannesburg in November 1946.

* 1946 – Federal Airport Act PL 79-377

Catalina Airport ( FAA Identifier: AVX ), also known as Airport-in-the-Sky, was built in 1946 and is located at ( NAD83 rounded from FAA-provided coordinates ):, northwest of Avalon.

Flying Cloud Airport was the first sign of big development in 1946.

The eventual Blue Ash Airport was built as Grisard Field in 1921 and sold to the City of Cincinnati in 1946.

The first plane, LN-HAV Norse Explorer, landed at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen on 26 December 1946.

On 18 September 1946, a DC-4 registered OO-CBG on delivery to SABENA crashed near Gander International Airport ( Newfoundland ), killing 27 of the 44 people on board.

* The next day, 18 September 1946, saw 27 people losing their lives when a SABENA Douglas DC-4 ( OO-CBG ) crashed 35 km short of Gander Airport, where the aircraft had been planned to land for a refueling stop on the flight from Brussels to New York.

In 1946 international service at Soledad Airport resumed with Avianca DC-4s, first to Miami and later to Kingston and New York.

Domestic operations were started from Bucharest ( Băneasa Airport ) on 1 February 1946.

Airport Control Tower, 2010The historical spelling iwautau had come to be pronounced ( approximately ) Iwō-tō by the age of Western exploration, and the 1946 orthography reform fixed the spelling and pronunciation at Iō-tō.

The first civilian flight from the then new London Heathrow Airport, a BSAA Avro Lancastrian, flew to Ministro Pistarini International Airport in 1946.

In 1946 Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and by 1948, more than one million passengers passed through a war surplus hangar that served as a terminal building.

The new Burbank facility was actually the largest commercial airport in the Los Angeles area until it was eclipsed in 1946 by the Los Angeles Airport in Westchester when that facility ( formerly Mines Field, then Los Angeles Municipal Airport ) commenced scheduled airline operations.

In 1946, Ontario Municipal Airport was renamed " Ontario International Airport " because of transpacific cargo flights originating from the facility.

The more popular Peter O. Knight Airport was opened on Davis Islands near Downtown Tampa in 1935, where both Eastern and National Airlines operated until 1946.

RAF Short Sunderland s and a Douglas C-47 Skytrain | Douglas Dakota at Kai Tak Airport, c. 1946

In June 1946, American Airlines decided to build a maintenance and engineering base adjacent to the Tulsa Municipal Airport.

On 1 December 1946, the new site replaced Belfast Harbour Airport ( now George Best Belfast City Airport ) as Northern Ireland ’ s civil airport, as the site at Sydenham was considered unsuitable.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.

He was in charge of the Hockaday School meals from 1946 to 1950, before he moved to Aj.

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more.

LORAN station Baker was a radio operations base in operation from September 1944 to July 1946.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

It was nationalised in 1946.

In 1946, shortly after the end of Norman's tenure, the bank was nationalised by the Labour government.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.