This aircraft was in part cargo part passenger configuration and was based at the RR Bristol Filton site. It was operated on behalf of the Turbo Union partnership that designed and built the RB199. However when this shot was taken it was collecting a Spey807 engine to take to Italy.

Departing from a wet and windy Prestwick

Operating on behalf of Lufthansa

Taxiing past the British Aerospace Factory which at the time this shot was taken was producing the Jetstream 31.

Another wet summer day in Glasgow !

Shown wearing her original livery on the TAA ramp.

This DHC-3 gave the Otter a new lease on life. While not the first turbine Otter conversion built, it was the first one to be made commercially available. Starting as Royal Canadian Air Force 3668 delivered December 15, 1953, Vazar replaced the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine with a Pratt & Whitney PT-6A turbine in 1987 and certified the conversion in time to introduce it at the 1988 Abbotsford Air Show. Unfortunately, the aircraft was later destroyed when it was flown up a wrong valley in poor weather on August 18, 1996. The Otter flew into ground that rose faster than it could climb.

Is it FRA or LHR?

Buttoning-up prior to pushback. This pier was, at that time, for international departures, therefore this flight was most probably a holiday charter rather than a normal BMA hop down to LHR.

Points of Call was unable to keep their operation going with just a single aircraft. A former Air New Zealand DC-8 delivered to them February 27, 1968, it was with Points of Call from May 1988 to February 1991. It was ultimately broken up in Miami, FL during August 1998.

VH-MVG was registered in May 1980. From 1995 to 2000, the Duchess spent four periods on the Hong Kong register as VR-HKR or B-HKR. It has been current in Australia since 2000.

N6425H eventually came on to the Australian register in June 1989 as VH-SUQ. The following year it was exported to Switzerland as HB-CJL.

Originally US Navy 136510, this Tracker was obtained by Conair for Firecat conversion. In fact, it became the first Turbo Firecat and after testing and certification, was delivered to France's Sécurité Civile as F-ZWVK - tanker 16. Later re-registered F-ZBFO, it was lost August 25, 1996 fighting a fire in Corsica. An Air Canada 787 now uses this registration.

Ex ZS-UKD, VH-JKD was registered in May 1987.