HMS Gannet SAR Flight worked regularly together with the RAF Mountain Rescue teams. On this cold Saturday in March, the Sea King crew picked up a team from RAF Leuchars who had been training near Stob Ghabhar, south of Glen Coe, for most of the day. It was rather cold and windy up there!

Built 1985. ex. G-BLRT, SE-KRV, TC-AOA, EI-SMB. To N162EA May 2009. Canx. 16th May 2011 A much used aircraft looking in need of a bit of TLC.

Parked in front of a by war devastated hangar at Kandahar air field, this C-130H of the Royal Australian Air Force. The Hercules was bought by the RAAF in 1978 and withdrawn from use by late November 2012. In 2016 it was selected by the government of Indonesia and started a new career as A-1335 within their Air Force from October in that year.

This 278 is the second An-26 of the Afghan Air Force carrying this serial. The first was construction number 13409, but this airframe was probably hijacked to Pakistan by followers of General Tanai after the failed coup attempt of 05 March 1990. 13409 is now in a aviation museum in Karachi (Pakistan). The An-26 278 with construction number 13902 of this picture was first seen in a camo jacket in March 2002 in service with the then new-born Afghan National Army Air Corps (ANAAC). The An-26 became grey in 2006 and is withdrawn from use at Kabul in 2013.

This 1970 built An-12BP started after 37 years of operations a new life with Transliz Aviation as ER-ADG in October 2007. It was reregistered by the company to S9-KHF in November 2007. Unfortunately, the An-12 was last seen in August 2014 at Chisinau (Moldavia) where it was fully scrapped by early 2015.

This long aircraft saw first operations with Seaboard World Airlines in Aug'69. After a long career the DC-8-63CF flew its last passenger flight with Saudi Arabian Airlines in 1979. The aircraft was converted for cargo flights. As a cargo aircraft it was converted from 63CF to 63F in 1987. Since 2010, it is reported that this DC-8 is withdrawn from use and stored at Nairobi (Kenya). Here the aircraft can be seen operating by its Sri Lankan owner Expo Aviation during a cargo haul to Kandahar. It is reported that after its retirement, Sri Lankan FitsAir took over the aircraft but never flew it. It departed Malta and flew to Nairobi on the 28th September 2013 and has been stored there. Visible on the satellite image at 1.3156S 36.9268E.