The BAA Fire Service cap badge has undergone 4 changes, the latest being its Fire & Rescue badge title, this is the 2nd pattern badge worn from 1986 & is a 2 piece cap badge. Manufactured by Marples & Beasley Badge Company, the enamel centre is spot welded to the fully pressed home office star & the cap fixing lugs are attached to the rear. 

Heathrow Airport situated in West London on the borders of 3 counties, is the busiest airport in the U.K & Europe handling the most passenger traffic, a Category 10 Airport on the worlds airport scales, not too far away from its smaller sister Gatwick Airport in West Sussex. Both airports are controlled by B.A.A & the fire service is run as one!

It has 1 main command station, Building 450 on the Northern Perimeter Road of the airport & 2 fire stations are situated on east & west sides of the airport. It has an impressive “arsenal” of firefighting vehicles, 4 six wheel drive major foam tenders, 2 four wheel drive light foam tenders, 2 Scania domestic pumping fire tenders, 2 Mitsubishi Shogun command vehicles, Scania hose laying lorry & 42m aerial ladder, personnel carriers & reserve foam tenders. Also supported by local authority fire crews on every incident, Hayes fire station at Shepiston Lane is the closest & has a hose laying lorry”, also Feltham Fire Station in Faggs Road, Feltham Village on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport has a London Fire Brigade Foam Tender close by. 

The airport was originally a Royal Flying Corps airfield in the first world war, bought in 1930 by famous British aviation engineer Richard Fairey. He bought approximately 150 acres from the Vicar of Harmondsworth Villiage for £15,000 to build a new private airfield to test his aircraft. He was using R.A.F Northolt but his factory producing the aircraft was in North Hyde Road, Hayes, he built a single runway & a small number of buildings. It became known as Faireys Great West Aerodrome. In world war 2 (ww2 1939 to 1945) the government requisit