This aircraft actually served with the NEIAF as L2-38. It was on display at the MLM as L2-100 as used at Merauke in New Guinea by 120 Sqn in 1944.

Returning to its Chino base after the airshow.

Originally N2630 with Socony - Vacuum Oil from April 1940, this Electra Junior operated for the company in Venezuela from 1941. To Avensa as YV-AVF by 1944, the aircraft carried several Venezuelan registrations before returning to the USA as N2633 in 1968. Acquired by the Perras brothers in 1988, it's remains in the Perras family kept in immaculate condition.

Beautiful classic attending a cool event organised by the friendly Vliegclub Ursel. Located in Flanders between Ghent and Bruges, Ursel is a reserve airbase with a 3-km runway.

Pictured in the static line up at the end of the day. This beautiful plane had earlier perfomed a wonderful display at this super show.

Ex Dutch East Indies air force Lockheed 12 serial L2-34. The USAAF serial is based on the c/n (1302) and the year it was taken over the Americans (1942). It was never an official serial and 42-1302 is actually a Vultee BT-13. No official serial was allocated to the Lockheed. The aircraft remained with the USAAF until the end of World War 2. After 1942 it was used in Papua New Guinea as a courier aircraft. In 1946 it was sold in Australia and became VH-ASG. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Very nice sunday afternoon visitor at my local airport.

The cars in the background indicate an British airfield. But any help on the location and year is appreciated. Photo via G.Bouma

Spyplane! This was apparently the first of several L-12s registered to Australian pilot Sidney Cotton and fitted with concealed cameras at Heston to photograph German military preparations on behalf of MI6. Cotton led the RAF's No 1 PDU (Photographic Development Unit) after the outbreak of the war. G-AFKR was sold to France in April 1939, becoming F-ARQA, and similarly used by aerial photographer Roger Henrard on behalf of the Deuxième Bureau. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

In front of the Babb hangar at Glendale. Jimmie Mattern again used the registration NR869E for this modified L-12. Planned long-range flights did not go ahead. Instead, Mattern used the aircraft to join the search for missing Soviet aviator Sigizmund Levanevsky, who had helped him following the crash of his Vega 5C NR869E (c/n 188) in Siberia. The L-12 was then converted to executive aircraft for owner/sponsor Republic Oil, but destroyed in a hangar fire in Miami in 1938. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

At the time was owned by PT Bryce and based at Sky Bryce Airport in Basye, VA.

On the way back from San Francisco to Jackson, Mississippi, on a navigation trip, some Dutch trainee B-25 crews landed here for weather reasons. L2-45 and L2-46 were sent to KLM's West Indies branch late 1943 and then to Europe in 1945. 42-58413 is a Cessna C-78 Bobcat. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Registered L2-27 between October 24, 1941 and January 17, 1945. Shipped from the Dutch Indies to the UK for Prince Bernhard, arriving at Liverpool on August 6, 1942. To the 1316 (Allied) Flight, mostly flown by Prince Bernhard. Transferred to the Dutch Government again on January 17, 1945 with fake serial EX735. Late 1945, the aircraft moved from Hendon to Valkenburg, where the 1 TransVA was founded. The Lockheeds carried the (paper) serials AX236, BX238, CX245, DX246 and EX753, but these weren't always applied. T-5 eventually crashed. Photo from W. Muntinga

Built in June 1937 as NC18130. To several owners until November 1941 when it joined the Free French air Force with the markings 128-R and callsign F-ZCAW. To G-AHLH in May 1947. to EI-ALC around MArch 1961. To F-BUIE in April 1973. Withdrawn from use and stored at Nice between 1974 and 1982. Ferried to St. Tropez in 1982. Ferried to California in September 2002 as N18130. CoA issues in August 2007. To the aviation museum in Stockholm as SE-BXU after September 2012. Later registered to different US owners (LLC's) as N18130. Operated by Artdeco Aviation. Likely already our visitor of the year.