Photographer D. Wilton

Being readied by AJI - American Jet Industries for Check Air . First flight 29 Nov 1966 and delivered to Piedmont as N703U on 19 Jan 1967. To International Lease Finance Corp 18 May 1976. Bought by AJI on 15 Jul 1977. To Check Air in Aug 1978. To Touraine Air Transport - TAT as F-GCJO in Mar 80. To ACE Transavalair in Feb 1989. Stored at Dinard Apr 1997. Noted there on 06Sep 2010. Not noted in 2014 and cancelled as broken up on 06 Feb 2015.

Owned by AJI - American Jet Industries. Delivered to TWA in Jan 1961 as N818TW. It was WFU in Jun 1974 and bought and registered to N813AJ by AJI in Apr 1978. It is still in its Trans World Airlines colours. Converted to a freighter in 1979. It went through various organisations without flying for a proper airline before being scrapped in December 2000.

First flight 16 Jul 1959 as N6118A. Delivered to American Airlines on 25Jul 1959. To McCulloch International Airlines on 10 May 1972. To Pacific Southwest Airlines in Dec 1977. To Evergreen International Airlines in Feb 1979. Reregistered to N5534 in Apr 1979 and converted to a freighter. To the Argentine Navy as 0793 / 6-P-104 on 09 Sep 1983. WFU 28 Oct 2002 total hours 34,581. Preserved in Apr 2008 at the Museo de la Aviacion Naval, Bahia Blanca.

New to Eastern Al as N5527 on 16 Apr 1959. To SAM Colombia as HK691 on 27 Nov 1970. Back to Eastern as N99583 on 23 Mar 1977 and onwards to Aeroservicios de California as XA-SAM in Apr 1977. To American Jet Industries (AJI) on 07 Feb 1978 and converted to a freighter. To Hawaiian Air Cargo as N346HA on 14 Nov 1978. To Zantop International on 02 Feb 1980. Leased to Fred Olsen from Aug 1995 to Aug 1996. To TMC Airlines on 01 Nov 1998. Airline ceased ops in 2005 and it was noted at YIP without props on 31 Aug 2005. To Buffalo Airways for spares. To Keystone Heights Airport FL 14Nov 14 stored.

Delivered to the USAF as 44-26961. Transferred to the Costa Rican Air Force as G.C.R-01 in Nov 1948. To the Guatemalan Air Force in Dec 1949 but not flown by them. To the Honduran Air Force as FAH504 in 1953. SOC in 1960 and went to the US register as N74883 on 31 Mar 1960. Reregistered to N38DH in 1976. Reregistered to N6961, date ? Destroyed in a fatal crash near Salt Lake City on 9 Apr 1981 while registered as N6961. Pilot killed, The aircraft had an engine failure on take off.

Delivered to Transcontinental and Western in Sept 1946. She went through a number of operators till Pacific Air Transport leased herfrom 1966 to 1972. After that it had a few private owners before being bought in 1979 by Aero Sacasa . WFU and scrapped in Fort Lauderdale in 1990.

The P-3 production line was at Burbank and this aircraft was on a pre-delivery test flight. Upgraded to a P-3C CDU in Sep 1996. To storage at AMARC on 18 Nov 2009. SOC on 04 Jan 2011.

Delivered to the USAF as 53-7807 on 09 Jun 1955. Leased to the FAA as NAFEC 1 in Dec 1959. Reregistered to N465 with the FAA in 1962. Returned to the USAF as 53-7808 in Jun 1964. WFU at MASDC - Davis Monthan AFB in Mar 1979. Noted in Sam's scrap yard tailless in Dec 1994. Broken up since.

Owned by AJI - American Jet Industries. The Charters International titles were painted on in Oct 1977, for use in the TV Series "Emergency!", season 7, episode 2 "The Most Deadly Passage". Originally delivered to Japan Air Lines as JA8002 in Jul 1960. Bought by AJI on 03 Jun 1974 and registered to N420AJ. Converted to a freighter in Dec 1979, it went through various leasing companies before being scrapped at Mojave around 1990.

An Executive prop operated by Fluor Eurasia Inc. Delivered to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway on 06 Dec 1967 as N227V. Moved onto various executive operators. Reregistered to N9NL on 05 May 1976. To EP-PAR on 06 Jun 1976. Back to N9NL on 15 Dec 1977. To Brazil as PT-ICA in Jul 1979. Crashed on approach to Altamira, Brazil on 06 Jun 1990 while operating a scheduled service for TABA.

The Original Frontier in their then new colour scheme. The Frontier of today is a different animal ! Delivered new to Frontier as N7391F on 12 May 1978. To United Airlines as N977UA in Oct 1985. WFU and stored at Victorville on 13 Nov 2001. To Sky King on 16 Oct 2003. Noted WFU on 01Oct 2015. Cancelled as PWFU at MHV on 27 Oct 2017. The aircraft has been scrapped.

Registered new with the Lear Jet Corporation as N656LJ in Apr 1968. Delivered to the West German register as D-IFUM in Jun1968. TO the USA as N44GA on 30 Jun 1976. To Canada with Saxon Industrial Management as C-GSAX in Jan 1977. Back to the US as N44GA in Jul 1983. Crashed and w/o at Catalina Island's Avalon Bay on 30 Jan 1984 when landing 500 feet too long and went over a bluff. All six on board were killed. Behind the Lear is N760 a DC-3-362 owned by Union Oil of California.

How's this for a great biz jet colour scheme ! Delivered new as N31WS in Jul 1975 and registered to Windstar Company / John Denver. W/o at Pueblo, CO on 20 Feb 2012 in a non fatal take off accident. Registration cancelled as scrapped on 03 Jan 2018.

Built in 1956 as a Convair CV440-47 and delivered to National Airlines as N2043 on 29 Jun 1956. To Allegheny Airlines on 01 Oct 1962. Converted to a CV580 in Feb 66 and re-delivered to Allegheny Airlines as N5808. To Aspen Airways on 09 Dec 1977. Leased to Air New Zealand in May 1978 and returned to Aspen in Oct 1978. Damaged beyond repair after skidding off the runway at Durango on 02 Feb 1988.

Boeing customer photographic flight.

Taken from the refueller's station in the rear of the 747 prototype.

Pre-delivery photo shoot