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Between 2000 and 2005, a total of four A319 have been delivered to the Italian AF and assigned to 31° Stormo / 306° Gruppo tasked with VIP transport duties. While the 1st A319ACJ (serialled MM62173) had already been sold to the Turkish Government by April 2005 as TC-TCB, the three remaining (MM62174, MM62209 and MM62243) as of May 2025 are soldiering on from their base at Roma/Ciampino airport (LIRA). MM62243 shown here on a rare state visit to Switzerland's capital was the last of the four airframes and was delivered on July 21, 2005.

Seen on a charter flight to/from Bern. This 2009 built airframe joined Germania Flug AG in 2015 as HB-JOG and was transferred to CHAir on June 11, 2019, which operated it till May 2023. It currently serves with Romanian airline Carpatair as YR-ABB. Germania Flug AG, an independent Swiss airline founded in August 2014, declared insolvency in February 2019 and the assets were in due course bought by Albex Aviation & Enter Air. The new owners renamed the airline to CHAir but kept operating under the former "GM" (Germania) IATA Code till April 29, 2025, when the new code "CS" was assigned.

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CN-AOR seen here taking off in beautiful atumn light had just dropped moroccan civil servants for emergency response training in Switzerland. This airframe is one of two KC-130H tankers delivered to the Royal Moroccan AF in late 1981, the other one being CN-AOS (c/n 4909). Morocco had already introduced 17 standard C-130H's between May 1974 and August 1981. They were either identified with the construction numer or with registrations CNA-OA through CNA-OQ, or a mix of both. Later, the c/n's were dropped completely and all surviving C-130's (three were lost) got CN-AO.. registrations.

Photographer: Daniel Ruhier.

Exported to USA 19 July 1984 as N337A. US registration cancelled 21 May 2013 as expired.

What is Blue Islands today started as Le Cocq's Airlink in 2001, was renamed to Rockhopper in August 2003 and finally adopted its current name in February 2006. In the past, the small airline has operated different commuter aircraft, mainly BAe 31 Jetstreams and ATR-42's, but also two BN-2 Islanders, a DHC-6 Twin Otter, a DO328 and a Fokker 50. The current fleet consists of five ATR-72, all of which were acquired 2nd hand as from 2017. Four are of the passenger version, and one - G-ISLP - is a freighter and only joined the fleet in mid March 2025. G-ISLM is seen here on a charter flight to BRN.

Before joining the small VIP fleet of the Swiss AF in May 2013, this 2007 built Falcon 900EX flew as 3A-MGA (April 2008 through November 2012) and as 3A-MGC (November 2012 till March 2013) for the State of Monaco. Test registration F-WWFL, then reported (but not confirmed) to carry registration C6-SZN (Bahamas) before going to Monaco in 2008. Having the swiss Minister of Finances on board, T-785 is seen here taxing out from its hombase Bern-Belp Airport, from where most of the aircraft's flights originate. The T in the serial stands for Transport. T-785 replaced a Falcon 50 serialled T-783.

Picture taken at some kind of air show or open house. Any help on the year is appreciated. Photographer unknown

Registered as N9012F then EI-AUA in 1969, G-AYNK in 1970, D-HCAB in 1976, HB-XGA in 1980 and D-HHFD in 2008. Cancelled from the register in 2013.

Registered to Kern AG as HB-XNR in 1982. Sold in 1992. Destroyed when the pilot lost control and it crashed into some trees at Uetliberg, Zurich, Switzerland in 1999.

Registered as D-HDJD then HB-XGM in 1977 and PH-KHD in 1996. Preserved at the Aviodrome, Lelystad from 2006.

Registered as HB-SPG in 1971, G-BWRI in 1996 and D-EPOU in 1998.

Built in 1974. Badly damaged when it hit a tractor cutting the grass while taking off from Hohenems-Dornbirn Airfield, Austria in 2015.

Former Swiss Air Force V-606. Registered as HB-HAC in 1981. Cancelled from the register in 1989 and reregistered as D-EFQK. Preserved at Sintra, Portugal in Portuguese Air Force colours as 3422 from 2011. Moved to Coimbra for restoration in 2022.

Built in 1968 as PC-6/A1-H2, delivered new to the "Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen", converted to version B1-H2 in 1970 and to B2-H2 in 1989. In August 2000, this airframe underwent another conversion (to B2-H4) and was handed over to the BMI (Bundesministerium des Inneren). The BMI did use it as OE-BIA till September 2003, the month it was passed on to the "Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung", also as OE-BIA. Finally, in April 2004, this PC-6 was integrated into the Austrian AF fleet and re-serialled 3G-EN. Still current as such at the time of upload.