Supposedly named Lake Nyasa, this Lodestar of BOAC is seen 'taxying at Ankara, Turkey, before taking off on the thrice-weekly service to Cairo.' The Ankara airport would have been Güvercinlik. G-AGIL registered 14 September 1943. BOAC had 19 L-18s, all based in Cairo, at the end of 1945. AGIL reported damaged at Istanbul in a list dated 9 October 1946. No further listings until 'returned to RAF' in November 1947. Photo by: L H Baker / Imperial War Museums

Turkish Jandarma AB-205 ready for traffic control mission

Ex FMS 163928. W/o 18 may 1997

Converted from a C-12A. Operated by the US Embassy, Ankara. Still in service in 2021.

Converted from a C-12A. Operated by the US Embassy, Ankara. Stored at AMARC with park code AAC0006 in 2001. Returned to service in 2004.

Delivered to the Turkish Army as 10013 in 1992.

Delivered to the Turkish Army as 10010 in 1991.

Fourteen Kingbird D-2s were built, two of which were exported to Turkey to provide the first air link between Ankara and Istanbul, via Eskişehir. NC601V (c/n 2007) became T.H.P.207 with Türk Hava Postalari in February 1933. Later that year it was transferred to Devlet Hava Yollari (DHY), predecessor of THY, as TC-KUŞ (with cedilla), fleet number 2. Here it is being inspected in Ankara by Atatürk, presumably at Güvercinlik. The other Kingbird, NC602V (c/n 2008), became T.H.P.208, then TC-102C with DHY (fleet number 1). It reportedly carried the name Kelebek (butterfly).

clearly ex German AF. In fact serial 58+47 is still readable. Later sold as TC-TRM.