Photographer: Mick Roth.

Photographer: Mick Roth.

W/O 28. October 1980 on a flight from Tashkent to Kabul

Kodachrome slide taken by John B Hayes. The 727 seen in Nome delivering supplies. Alaska operated "combis" with passengers and freight in the cabins to these remote locations. This is the "Prospector" livery, one of the four used in the early-mid 1970s. The history of the origins of this tail scheme are still vague but many say it was a liking of prospector and "con" artist Soapy Smith from the Klondike Gold Rush era.

Photo taken at the Officers Mess at Luqa, just after the aircraft had been refurbished by the RAF. Now resides at the War Museum, Fort St. Elmo, Valletta.

In transitional markings, BEA livery with British Airways titles.

The aircraft entered the Dutch register in February 1974 and is still active at the time of the upload. Owned by Martinair until March 1993, to various owners after that. In the background you can see Beech 33 D-EKVU. That aircraft later became OO-KVU and SE-EKS (in December 2016, still active). Photo from Harm Reinders