Ex CF-DTN, RCAF A675/1500. Subsequently moved to Bruntingthorpe, and beautifully restored to flying condition aided by spares from G-BKRG. It now flies in US Navy colours.

Ex-RCAF 1500. One of three Capital Air Surveys Beech 18s arriving at Prestwick on the same day, on their way back to Canada from Algeria. After reporting in at the Main Terminal, the aircraft were taxied round to the General Aviation Area where they were parked side by side, and where they remained - impounded ! Their company was in business difficulties, eventually being dissolved for non-compliance in 1985. The other aircraft were CF-QPD and CF-SUQ. This one became G-BKRN.

Capital Air Surveys of Ottawa operated this ex-RCAF Beech 3N from 1969. It had a chequered career during which it got impounded at Preswick on the way back from Algeria in 1981. Having been abandoned to its fate it ended up on the UK register as G-BKRN and has been restored to represent a US Navy UC-45J.

The history and restoration of this aircraft is fully explained on the Internet. At the time this photograph was taken, it was in the hands of the VAT team at Cranfield who preserved it in the condition shown until it was purchased in 1996 for restoration to flying condition by Beech Restorations at Bruntingthorpe.