Close-up of the cockpit/canopy of this Shackleton. 8 Squadron named its Shackletons after characters from the childrens' television series "The Magic Roundabout". WR960 was Dougal, a Skye Terrier dog.

This DC-6B led an illustrious life starting as CF-CZV with CP Air before moving to Scandinavia first with Transair as SE-BDG before going to Braathens SAFE as LN-SUT. Then she went to Greenlandair as OY-DRC. The last stop in Europe was with Air Atlantique as G-SIXB before heading for Southern Africa, first as 3D-ASA, then 3D-ASB with Air Swaziland, then to Interocean as C9-ASR. Later she became ZS-MUL with Avia, 9Q-CJE with Trans Service Airlift. She returned to South Africa as ZS-XXX where she is now a gate guard for Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers as ZS-MUL.

Seen in the old livery, I have deliberately left the main subject off-centre to show the Avianca Boeing 707 (HK-1410) and Aerolineas Argentina Boeing 707 (LV-ISA) in the background. A taste of Madrid airport in the mid 1970s !

We had talked our way into the airfield and were given a guided tour but, for some reason, photography was prohibited. Whilst our guide was distracted by a colleague, Mick Harrison, I managed this one photograph.

Seen at Heathrow on a wet June day this Sabena Beech 99 was an unusual visitor to Heathrow. It became D-IEXF and was wfu in the early 1990's. Scanned from a slide.

This Convair 340 prototype (ex N3401) was flown by the Spanish government (Subsecretaria de Aviacion Civil) before being transferred to the Spanish Air Force in 1979, as a spares source for their Convair fleet.

Seen in the old Iberia livery

The aircraft is being worked on in the Iberia hangar. I saw this aircraft three years later at Miami by which time it was N819TA.