Road. Later the tents were replaced by prefabricated buildings. (It was opposite the Bricklayers Arms pub, which in 1954 was renamed the Air Hostess, and in 1988 was demolished.) The first control tower was a crude brick building (3 storeys, plus 2 huts on its flat roof) roughly where the airport police station was later built. 31 May 1946: The newly named London Airport was officially opened for commercial operations. 16 April 1946: The first aircraft of a foreign airline, a Panair Lockheed 049 Constellation, landed after a flight from Rio de Janeiro. BOAC's first scheduled flight was an Avro Lancastrian headed for Australia on a route operated jointly with Qantas. 31 May 1946: The airport was fully opened for civilian use. 1947: By now Heathrow runways formed a triangle consisting of 100/280 ( long), 156/336 ( long), and 52/232 ( long). A parallel runway farther west soon replaced 156/336 thereby expanding the planned terminal area inside the triangle. The temporary "prefab" passenger and cargo buildings were at the northeast edge of the airport, just south of Bath Road. 1948: Perry Oaks farm was demolished. 1948 to 1949: Buildings along Hatton Road were demolished, thus likely start of the airport spreading east of Hatton Road. A short film made by the Crown Film Unit in 1949, London Airport (available at the Internet Archive), shows the official opening of the airport and the intensive building works. Runway 1 was ready for use but the old Heathrow village area's country lanes were still visible, and Perry Oaks farm and some houses along Hatton Road were still there. 1950s Photographs of Heathrow Airport in 1953 or 1954 Early 1950s: Three more runways completed the hexagram; two runways would always be within 30° of the wind direction. October 1950: Revision of the northward extension plan: smaller area; part of Harlington reprieved; much of Harmondsworth to be demolished. 31 October 1950: BEA Vickers Viking crashes in thick fog. 7 February 1952: Princess Elizabeth returned to the United Kingdom as Queen Elizabeth II. She arrived on the BOAC Argonaut Atalanta, on an area of the airport now covered by the Brasserie Restaurant of the Heathrow Renaissance Hotel. 1953: Queen Elizabeth II ceremonially laid the first slab of a new runway that year. December 1953: Passenger traffic reached 1 million, with a total of 62,000 flights in the year. December 1953: After much protest, the northward extension