Converted from UH-1D to UH-1H - but whether before or after this shot taken I don't know. To MASDC in 1988

Delivered in 1972, later modified to U-21J and loaned to the US Navy Test Pilot School around 2000. Wfu at Fort Hood, TX, stored at Dothan, AL

Another Beagle 206 that was sold directly to the US from new

Crashed while attempting to land at Fort de France hydrobase in Martinique on August 3, 1945. Photo from: The John Fornasero Papers/The Museum of Flight

Seen here after suffering a landing accident at Bridgeport. The registration was cancelled in October 1, 1939, but by then Air Line Feeder System had already ceased services. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Igor Sikorsky demonstrating his helicopter. He utilised the pontoons to make a water landing and take-off the next day, 17 April, and stayed aloft for 92 minutes on 6 May 1941. The sole VS-300 first flew tethered on 14 September 1939. It was modified to VS-300A in 1940. Photo by: Dmitri Kessel / Life

G-II c/n 76 was built 1969 and is shown here still without winglets, which should be installed in 1997. It kept this registration until it was withdrawn at Van Nuys CA; the Gulfstream was broken up there in 2004.

Was soon to acquire a new livery as United Express

The Savage was a 1950s carrier bomber, later converted for refuelling/recon. The AJ-2 version had two P&W R-2800s and a J33 turbojet in the tail, good for over 40,000ft if piston engine stalling around 35k could be overcome. After service with the USN 1954-59 as 130418 and as firebomber N101Z, this one was used by AVCO Lycoming for jet testing in 1971/72. The only survivor of 143 built, flown to USN museum at Pensacola on 9.5.84 and restored to USN marks. When I recently sent the pic round my friends, no-one could name it!

GLC's corporate aircraft from 1953, later joined by a Convair 580. Sold to Missionary Flights in 2.77 becoming N200MF but crashed at George Town - Exuma, Bahamas on 3.2.98 when one engine failed after the other on departure for Haiti