May 1927 JLP rented land at Dusan Tappa to serve as its base airport. https://iranicaonline.org/articles/aviation-history 16 May 1927 20 May 1927 Although keen disappointment was felt in British aviation circles over the termination about forty miles from Bender Abbas, near the Persian Gulf, of the attempted non-stop flight of Lieuts. C. R. Carr and L. S. M. Gillman, of the Royal Air Force, their performance is considered highly creditable. Leaving Cranley, near London, Eng., on Friday, May 20, the fliers started on what they hoped would be a non-stop flight from London to Karachi, India, a distance of 4,000 mi. The news of their mishap was received in a dispatch from Karachi to the Air Ministry, and no details were given. They were rescued by a passing steamer. Their plane was lost and the fliers continued to Abadan. It is thought that they had to make a forced landing across the Bend at the entrance to the Persian Gulf on a straight course to Jask, 100 mi. ahead. Another hour of flying would have enabled them to glide to the Jask Aerodrome, 3,600 mi. from Cranwell. The plane had been in the air about 32 hr. <Aviation Week 6 June 1927> 6 June 1927 Junkers is operating a weekly airmail service in both directions between Qasr Shirin and Teheran. Again they sought permission to land at Khaniqin or Baghdad. The British Government suggested that permission be refused because “The aerodrome at Baghdad is a service aerodrome, while the Khaniqin landing ground is maintained by the Air Force for the air control of the country. In these circumstances it is not possible, under existing conditions, to allow these landing grounds to be used by companies such as Junkers which are not amenable to the control of the military authorities.”
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