Operated by Air Glaciers. I had just returned from a 45-minute pleasure flight on this aircraft, including a close pass around the summit of Matterhorn.

Taken from an Air Glaciers Cessna 206, south of the airport, looking approximately north. The runway 26 threshold is in the middle right. The civil terminal and aprons are north of the runway, and the military area is to the south. The autoroute is in the lower right, roughly parallel to the runway. Vineyards on the slopes to the north.

Delivered new to Ansett 25th Feb 1988 and transferred to Ansett Express Nov 1991, then to Skywest May 1996

Ex G-BOEJ, registered 26th Nov 1988 and to G-VBAC 15th Sep 1997

The main cabin of G-SIXC during loading of freight containers through cargo door (left). Rollers in floor assist movement. Small space at left allows crew access to cockpit. Taken during CVT-MAN-DUB-CVT cargo charter flight for Aer Lingus.

Undergoing overnight maintenance at its home base.

A freight "Igloo" is pushed off the scissor-lift truck before being propelled forward along G-SIXC's roller-fitted cargo floor to make space for further containers. 13 Tons of cargo was loaded at Manchester before our departure for Dublin on an Air Atlantique charter on behalf of Aer Lingus. I flew in the cockpit as supernumerary crew.

Captain Whiteman prepares to open the throttles to accelerate Air Atlantique's heavily loaded DC-6B up Manchester's Runway 06 "hill" bound for Dublin with Ireland's Sunday newspapers which had been printed in the city. We also had other Aer Lingus cargo aboard. On our positioning flight back to Coventry, we had to shut down a rough-running engine during our initial approach in a snowstorm - real flying!