Disambiguation: Must not be confused with the 1960 13-episode BBC series (Scotland Yard (TV series))!

Scotland Yard, title template of the film series (from 1955).

39 Short Movies (1953-1961)

Starring:
Edgar Lustgarten (crime writer introducing each episode)
Russell Napier (Inspector Harmer (2 times); Superintendent Duggan (13 times))

From those 39 short movies, 17 include aircraft and this is the IMPDB analysis of the impressive work done by Lateef at IMCDB who kindly provided aircraft when available!
Each film focuses on a true crime case.

Passenger to Tokyo (1954)

Douglas DC-4-1009

Douglas DC-4-1009 of Scandinavian Airlines System.

Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser

Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Reg. G-AKGI Boeing 377-10-32 RMA Caribou c/n 15975 built in 1950. Fly for BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation until 1959.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Canadair C-4 Argonaut

Possibly G-AL(HY?) Canadair C-4 Argonaut c/n 170 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation but still natural metal. If correct, this airplane could be seen in full BOAC colors in The High Bright Sun.

De Havilland DH.106 Comet

De Havilland DH.106 Comet (1 or 2) of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955)

Douglas DC-6B

Douglas DC-6B of PAA-Pan American World Airways.

Vickers Viscount

Reg. G-AMAV Vickers Viscount 700 c/n 3 (short antenna mast)? of BEA-British European Airways.

Murder Anonymous (1955)

Lockheed L-749 Constellation

Lockheed Constellation of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

The Case of the River Morgue (1956)

Vickers 701 Viscount

Vickers 701 Viscount of Air France (before 1954, as AIR FRANCE title was bigger after this date).

Footage used again in Destination Death and Night Crossing.

Destination Death (1956)

Vickers Viscount

Another Vickers Viscount wearing the Air France livery. Here more likely a type 708 variant.

Convair 240/340/440

Hard to say which variant...

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation

Lockheed L-1049C/E/G/H Super Constellation of TCA-Trans-Canada Air Lines taxiing in front of a Canadair C-4 Argonaut of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Person Unknown (1956)

Douglas DC-6

PAA-Pan American World Airways's Douglas DC-6 desk model.

The Lonely House (1957)

Swiss Stamp

Swiss stamp 40 Ct. (Swiss centime) Blue and Red: 25 years of "Swissair" (1931-1956) featuring a quadriprop (DC-6?) and a trimotor (Fokker VII?).
ref. Stamp Number CH 358 / Yvert et Tellier CH 575 / Stanley Gibbons CH 570. Was sold from March to December 1956.

Vickers 630 Viscount

Seen two times Vickers 630 Viscount of BEA-British European Airways.
Alas! registration can not be read with this slighty blurred copy (we just guess BEA on the nose over the two small last registration letters).
But the two long antenna masts are specific to G-AHRF Vickers 630 Viscount c/n 1 damaged beyond economic repair on 27 August 1952 during landing at Khartoum Airport, Sudan.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Vickers 700 Viscount

Sadly, the flight footage doesn't help too..
Reg. G-AMAV RMA Endeavour for the 700 c/n 3 with its shorter mast.

The Case of 'The Smiling Widow' (1957)

Vickers Viscount

Seems the same footage used in The Lonely House.

(Type 700 G-AMAV) Flight to Rome...

... and back in London (type 630 G-AHRF).

The Tyburn Case (1957)

Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser

Footage already used three years before for Passenger to Tokyo.

The White Cliffs Mystery (1957)

Various Model and Picture

(foreground) Hawker Hunter desktop model on pole.

1: Hawker Sea Fury;
2: Hawker Sea Hawk;
3: Unidentified ;
4: World War One British Bipane such a Sopwith Camel. (Sopwith test pilot Harry Hawker and three others, including Thomas Sopwith, bought the assets of Sopwith Aviation Company -in bankruptcy in September- and formed H.G. Hawker Engineering in 1920. Later, the company was renamed Hawker Aircraft Limited in 1933);
5: Hawker Fury (or one of its derivative: Hawker Audax or Demon or Hart or Hind or Osprey);
6: Hawker Hunter (side by side trainer variant)

Night Crossing (1957)

Bristol 171 Sycamore

Vickers Viscount

Already used for two former Scotland Yard movies.

Vickers 708 Viscount

Reg. F-BGNN Viscount 708 of Air France (c/n 014) landing (bottom left) in front of a white Avro Vulcan.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Rear part of Boeing B-17G-25-VE Flying Fortress s/n 42-97681 (built by Lockheed Vega in 1943 at Burbank, California). Christened The Big Wheel, on strength with 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group when damaged over Frankfurt on 09 March 1945. Seen here in the process to repair the B-17G-70-DL s/n 44-6890 battle damaged over Ruhland (7 March 1945) but return to crash landed base. The 'new' bomber returned to the USA on 5 July 1945 to be scrapped next December.

Print of Death (1958)

Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser

Reg. G-AKGI Boeing 377-10-32 RMA Caribou c/n 15975 already seen in Passenger to Tokyo.

Crime of Honour (1958)

Vickers 802 Viscount

The Silent Weapon (1961)

Hiller UH-12B

Auster J/1N Alpha

Reg. G-AGYH Auster J/1N Alpha c/n 1989 built in 1946. After a few unfortunate mishaps in the first years of the 1960s, it was sold and then gradually left to derelic state until the 1970s at least. The aircraft has been restored to flying condition on a Special Category Permit in the new milenium.

With a BAC Jet Provost behind the white Sunbeam Alpine Series I.

de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth

At Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW), home of Percival Aircraft's factory and D Napier & Son (Aero engines) but not for much longer. This control tower was built in 1952 and was in use until the end of 20th century.