Former Surinam Airways Twin Otter, with West Coast Air Services from May 1979, was leased to Airwest Airlines in April 1980 and merged into Air BC in November 1980 while still in these colors. Last with Harbour Air, the aircraft ferried Vancouver to Calgary in December 2019 with titles and logo removed.

A little smoky reverse from back in the day. VH-EBN with Qantas Airways, this 707 joined Singapore Airlines fleet in 1974 and was converted to a freighter in 1977. Sold to International Air Leases in 1981, the freighter would fly with Arrow Air (N707GB) and Tampa Air Cargo (HK-3030X) 1981 - 98. Last operated by Skymaster Airlines as PT-WZS, it was stored at Sao Paulo, Brazil and later Lima, Peru before scrapping.

I-MABU was on the Italian register between 1978 and 1981. Four years after its visit to Munich, the bizjet crashed into mountains on approach to Florianopolis, wearing the Brazilian registration PT-LCN.

scan from the NK collection. - OY-DSP came from Eastern Air Lines and was operated by Conair from 1971 till 1985. After some years of storage at Copenhagen, the airliner was scrapped in 1990.

Mike Madden photo.

Sold in Bolivia as CP-3032 in September 2015. Tony Arbon photo

The nice man hovered outside the Tower for me to take a picture !

Ex-N4081M. Written off 8-Jun-1986 at Dundo Airport (DUE/FNDU), Angola.

Later N520SJ, N901SJ, S9-DBF, 5X-TUD

Ex-HB-IDU, N805U, N805SW. Later N911R, TF-AED, HP-1088, 5N-ATS, N808CK, N182SK

KLM Helicopters was the first operator of this S-61, flown from 1978 - 1996. It is current with Canadian Helicopters as C-FCDH at the time of uploading.

Sold in Libya as 5A-DJT in July 1983.

Originally with the RAAF and later registered as VH-SJG, the aircraft is shown at Essendon in her RAAF livery after domestic service and prior to a brief period at " Chewing Gum Field" near Queensland's Gold Coast.

From a cancelled order, this Convair went to the German Air Force 1962 - 74 via the Hughes Tool Company. Kelowna Flightcraft bought it in late 1979 for their charter operations. It was sold to Powell Air when that airline received Powell River to Vancouver authority in the summer of 1981. Returning to the USA as N204RA in May 1987, the airliner operated for Renown Aviation and later Laredo Air, before withdrawn and stored, first in Opa Locka, FL and moved to Roswell, NM circa 2000.

Sold in the US as N224KW in 1994

Delivered to the Province of Ontario's Department of Lands and Forests December 12, 1966, this turbo Beaver first appeared in Vancouver for Air West sometime around 1978. Pictured in the (then) new Air West color scheme, the aircraft would make a successful forced landing in a field after an engine failure later in 1980. Unfortunately during the recovery, it was dropped by the helicopter and written off. It was, however, rebuilt in Seattle to become N4603U in January 1984, and noted as such at Boeing Field in March 1987. It seems to have disappeared from written records after it was cancelled from the register in June 1987.