scanned from a slide

re-registered 5T-CLP soon after - photographer unknown

Returning from lease to Air Mauritanie.

Returning from lease to Air Mauritanie.

Withdrawn from use in 2006;

This Air Mediterranee 737 had been on lease to Air Mauritanie and still had their title on it after coming back, it operated a flight to transport French Rugby fans for the Scotland v France match.

Seen soon after arrival in ex-Wein Air Alaska colours awaiting preparation for Air Mauritanie - see my shot after repaint into full livery

Having arrived at Southend in late 1980 carrying ex-Wien colours, this FH-227 had just been rolled out after overhaul and respray by BAF. She was originally Mohawk's N7819M from 5.67 and returned to Alaska as N4716Z with Aleutian Air in 1.84. Used by University Athletic Assoc (N101FG) from 1993-99, she wound up with Atlantic Air as HR-ASK; was at Opa-locka during 2004 for u/c repairs but too much corrosion; ferried back to La Ceiba and wfu (reported derelict and engineless in 2007). Believed scrapped at Opa-locka

Seen here in the old colours awaiting maintenance with BAF, this F27 was another Bonanza machine, delivered to them in 10.59 as N150L (later N750L). Bought by the Mauritanians in 6.74, she found herself back in the States ten years later, joining Horizon as N280PH and being converted to F27J standard. She headed south in 7.87, becoming LV-PAD and later LV-AZV with CATA. Dismantled around 2002 and fuselage/tail now at a technical college in Buenos Aires near Aeroparque

We were lucky enough to get three of the Mauritanian Fairchilds through Southend for maintenance. This aircraft, of 1959 vintage, initially served the colourful Bonanza Air Lines (which had a fleet of 11 of the type) as N148L then N748L, being sold on in 7.74 by Hughes Airwest via IAL to Mauritania. She returned to the US in 12.83 and two years later found her way to Aerocozumel in Mexico, taking up the reg XA-NAP formerly used on a Comet 4. Wfu at Cozumel early '90s