Retired from RAF service in January 1976 and stored at Kemble. Became G-BEMZ (Air Faisal) on 11 February 1977, to UAE as A6-HMS (Gaylan Air Cargo) on 9 April 1980, and restored as G-BEMZ on 3 April 1981. Registration cancelled on 19 October 1982 as sold in Belgium, and registered 9Q-CGP with Katale Air Transport. Scrapped in Zaire, date not known.

Delivered to the RAF as XL660 in 1960. To Air Faisal as G-BEMZ in 1977 then to Gaylan Air Cargo as A6-HMS in 1980. Reregistered as G-BEMZ in 1981. To Katale Aero Transport as 9Q-CGP in 1981. Scrapped around 1992.

ex Gaylan Air Cargo. photo : Willi Pockall

ex Gaylan Air Cargo, sold to Zaire. The registration is hand painted on the fuselage.

Following 16 years of RAF service as XL660, this Brit became G-BEMZ with Air Faisal in 5.76. Leased to Gaylan as their only aircraft from 4.80 to 9.81. Sold to Katale as 9Q-CGP in 12.81 and scrapped in Zaire by 1.92

This Brit was seized by HM Customs a few months after this shot (I remember seeing a photo of it carrying their titles and logo in a doctored b&w!). Ex XL660 and operated alongside G-BDLZ (my shot of 'LZ shows the two of them) until seizure 8.79; became A6-HMS with Gaylan in 4.80 then to 9Q-CGP of Katale A/T 11.82 and later b/u in Zaire. The ex Air Mauritanie DC-4 behind, 5N-ARC, had recently made a wheels-up landing during a test flight out of SEN for Arax Airlines

This was a short-lived airline that used this ex RAF Britannia, formerly XL660. It went on to become 9Q-CGP

Became G-BEMZ