plan was cancelled. 1955: Queen Elizabeth II opened the first permanent passenger terminal, the Europa Building (later known as Terminal 2) as well as the Queens Building. These terminal buildings stood in the central area in the middle of the star pattern of runways and were reached by a twin access tunnel from the Bath Road (A4) passing under Runway 28R/10L . 1 April 1955: A new control tower designed by Frederick Gibberd opened to replace the original 1940s tower. Late 1950s: BEA Helicopters ran an experimental helicopter service to Heathrow Central from London's South Bank and other destinations. The roof gardens on top of the Queen's Building and Europa Terminal were popular with the public, and above the tunnel there was a ground enclosure from which sight-seeing flights operated. 1955: The first central terminal building was named Building 1 Europa. 1956: The second central terminal building (an extension on Building 1) was named Building 2 Britannic. 1957: The West London Air Terminal, a check-in facility for British European Airways, began operations. 1960s 1961: Runway lengths: Runway 10L 9313 ft, 10R had been extended west to 11000 ft, 5L 6255 ft, 5R 7734 ft, 15R 7560 ft, 15L not in use. 13 November 1961: Building 3, the Oceanic building (renamed as Terminal 3 in 1968) opened to handle long-haul flight departures. The roof gardens on the Queen's Building and the Europa Terminal remained popular. Spring 1962: Last scheduled airline flights from London Airport North (Pan Am, TWA and Pakistan International). 1964: The documentary City of the Air is filmed at Heathrow. The legal dispute between Fairey Aviation and the government over compensation, which started in early 1944, was finally settled in the sum of £1,600,000. Fairey's 1930 hangar, in legal limbo for 20 years, and used as the Heathrow Airport fire station and as backdrop for an advertising billboard for BOAC, was then finally demolished. 1965: Ownership and control of the airport passes from the Ministry of Aviation to the new British Airports Authority. 1966: London Airport is renamed Heathrow. 8 June 1968: James Earl Ray, an American criminal convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was captured while trying to fly out of the United Kingdom using a false Canadian passport. At check-in, the ticket agent noticed the name on the fake passport, Ramon George Sneyd, was on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist. The United