1936: Constructed and sold to unknown owner with c/r NC16403. 1943: Roscoe Turner of Indiana. Aug '70: Gerald D. McCormick, McKenna, WA with c/r N16403. Ca.1974: Roy Wicker, Thomasville, GA, spent a few years re-covering it. Feb '83: William Batesole, Springfield, VT. Apr '90: Kennet Aircraft Ltd, Thatcham, England with c/r G-BSEB. UNK: Sylmar Aviation & Services Ltd, Brimpton Airfield, Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK with c/r N16403. Feb '13: Jennifer B. Jacob, Greenville, NC.

Photographer Alain Rioux

ex Western and Fuerza Aerea de Chile (photographer not known)

Operating a regular summer charter to the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts. Delivered new to Balkan Bulgarian Airlines by May 1977. WFU Sofia Jan 1996. Broken up Oct 1999.

A busy day on the East Midlands freight ramp with SE-DBN sandwiched between two Tarom B707 freighters YR-ABM and YR-ABN. Delivered new to SAS on 31Jul1969 as SE-DBN. Sold to Evergreen International as N939F on 11May1988. To Airborne Express as N935AX on 07Mar1990. To Everts Air Cargo as N935CE on 28Mar11. WFU and stored at Fairbanks on 17Jun2022.

Unusual visitor to East Midlands on a freight flight. Delivered new to Pan Am on 23May1967 as N450PA. Sold to Tarom in Aug1975 as YR-ABM. Leased to Air Afrique on 04Dec1992 and crashed short of the runway at Abidjan on 15Jan1993.

A regular summer visitor operating a Spanish charter flight. Air Bridge Herald G-BEYF is in the background in Elan colours. Delivered new to Eastern Airlines on 19Jan1968 as N8770. To ONA - Overseas National Airways on 27Dec1973. Reregistered to N869F with ONA Jun1975. To Spain as EC-CZE with Spantax on 01Apr1977. WFU and stored Palma in 1988. To N814GB on 15May1990. To Miami and scrapped in Nov1999.

Swedair operating for SAS from Stockholm to Jönköping with this 24 year old Faichild F-27 as we were camping in Sweden that summer. ex CF-LWN and N225, came to Aerocenter as SE-IEG in 1980. Used by Swedair from 1983 to 1986, later N225, N311NA and N311RD before wfu

Damaged beyond repair as C-FDFC whilst taking off Enstone, Oxfordshire July 18, 1996.

Lined up for take-off on runway 23.

Evening departure just before sunset.

This F27 started life with Aer Lingus in 1958 as EI-AKB. Here it is about to land on runway 23 at its former home base.