slide scan from the NK collection. - Air Trader A/B operated three Vanguards on freight charters, but the airline had to suspend operations after about one year again. The leased Vanguards returned to Air Holdings; a forth example of the type, acquired for spares only, remained derelict at Air Traders homebase at Stockholm-Bromma. - SE-FTI was later used by EAS and Merpati; it was noted at Jakarta in 1985, wfu as PK-MVA, and was subsquently scrapped.

A nice line of classics, typical of Southend in the Seventies. SE-FTI didn't last long as such and went on to Merpati, EAS and back to Merpati again. Next is G-BAMX looking as though it is badly corroded - broken up a year later. Then ex-EPA Carvair CF-EPW and Aer Turas DC-4 EI-ARS with UN High Commissioner for Refugees titles

Standing outside the ATEL hangar, this one-time Air Canada Vanguard (CF-TKB) awaits delivery to what proved to be a very short-lived airline. Last flew with Europe Aero Service in 1979 and was b/u at Perpignan