A nice casual shot from a bygone age. Taken by unknown photographer

written off after an landing accident in April 1988 and became a gate guard afterwards. Photographer unknown

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1966 as JA8316 for All Nippon. Air Panama HP-620 1973, Jetair D-AJAA May 1984, registered OO-JAA July to September 1984 due to German certification problems reverting to D-AJAA October 1984. N55AJ Challenge Air 1986, leased to Air Panama 1987. Torosair TC-AJU 1988. International Airline Support Group N3211M 1991, donated to Metro Tech Aviation school, Oklahoma City 1992, scrapped 2010.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1960 as N8810E for Delta. Traded in to Boeing 1974, stored Burbank by 1975, Monarch Aviation 1977. Converted to main deck cargo door freighter 1978. Inair Panama HP-821 1979, skidded of runway landing Panama City 29 March 1980 and damaged beyond repair.

slide scan from the NK collection.

slide taken by Norbert Kröpfl. - VIASA's old colour scheme, with a slightly modified tail design and additional KLM titles. Later, this particular aircraft had the honour to perform the very last American Airlines DC-10 service as N143AA, on 21/NOV/00. The plane was acquired by Omni thereafter for part-out at Tulsa in 2001.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1969 as 9M-AOV for MSA. Singapore Airlines 9V-BFE 1972, Air Florida N42AF 1979, America West N709AW 1985, Ansett NZ ZK-NED 1987, Sierra Pacific N709SP 1990, Presidential Air 1994. Cancelled 2012 as scrapped.

In 1979, bush pilot Bob Ambrose's Norcrown Air was operating this Cessna A185F, C-GHEP and Pilatus Turbo Porter CF-ZIZ on floats from a lake near Ross River, YT serving tourists, canoeists and exploration companies. One of his 1979 contracts was supporting Cominco's large regional mineral exploration in the MacKenzie Mountains. This Cessna was photographed at the old fur trading post at Pelly Lakes, 120 km east of Ross River, where Cominco has a seasonal base with a Bell Jet Ranger. C-GHEP was built in 1963 and imported to Canada in 1974. It was in cancelled from the CCAR in Apr 2019. This is the prototype Cessna A185F - hence the unusual c/n.

Credit: Rolf H. Flinzner

Photographer unknown. Seen at Orly during a period on loan from parent company Air France. This Caravelle returned to Air France for a short period before being retired and then broken up at Orly by late 1980.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1962 for United, leased to Braniff summer 1972. McCulloch International 1975, operating for Ceasar's Palace. To Sinclaire Aviation Services in 1977, operating concert charters for Elton John, Led Zeppelin and Bee Gees. West Winds International 1982, stored Redding, CA 1983. Parted out and scrapped Davis Monthan 1986.

K25 slide scan. Ordered by Universal as N918U but not taken up, instead delivered to Martinair 1969. Returned to MDC 1982 as N909DC. US Navy as C-9B 162753 1983, National Nuclear Security Administration N45NA 2003, withdrawn 2017. Logistic Air 2021.

Devoid of any markings.

A Learjet in the first colours of Arab Wings on a late evening visit to Munich-Riem. In January 2022, this aircraft was seen in service with Kalitta Charter as N353CK.

in late summer 1979 this Viking arrived in parts from the Netherlands in a pitiful condition, but was soon rebuilt and cleaned up for static display in the local Air Classic Museum. Name "Marinus van Meel" can still be read on the nose.

Photographer: Toshiyuki Toda.

Mike Madden photo

Photo via Giorgio Salerno