First flight 14 October 1959 as a L-188C with reg M9724C, and delivered new as ZK-NEA to TEAL Tasman Empire Airways . In January ZK-TEA transferred to Air New Zealand, named "Aotearoa". N31231 27May 1972 for flamingo Air Lines. Converted to freighter in December 1972, and bought by FOF as LN-FOI 11th September 1973, op cargo flights for SAS and other carrieres. Seen outside the FOF Hangar in October 1985, with a white nose-cone instead of the usual black one. in 1986 repainted to the new white livery, which LN-FOI wore until Fred Olsen shout down the airline in 1997. Moved to Coventry January 1998.

Any help on the location is appreciated.

Seen parked outside the FOF Hangar, after been transferred from Iscargo to Eagle Air. Scanned from original Fuji negative film, shot with an Instamatic camera, the first time I asked the CAA to come inside the airport to photograph a special aircraft, and they brought me to this place by car. ex N5009K, PI-C1063 / RP-C1063 as a L-188C flying pax, cvtd to CF as N62AJ in 1979, then to Iscargo as TF-ISJ and TF-VLN, later N4465F until damaged beyond econoimc repair at Aruba July 19th 1990, without any injuries to people.

Photographer: Clive Head. K64 slide scan. Built 1959 as N171PS for PSA. Leased to Holiday as N971HA 1968, returned to PSA as N171PS 1975. Evergreen N5539 1979 after freighter conversion. Channel Express 1990, reregistered G-CEXS 1992. Air Spray C-GZCF 2003 for tanker conversion.

Current as C-GXFC, Buffalo Airways (at time of upload)

still in basic Transafrik colors