Photo by David Spiteri Staines.

Plain Jane departing to Southend.

This Beech 18 is the true EC-ASJ registration and is in flying condition. A Beech 18 is preserved in the Museum in Malaga, with the same registration but in the E18S version.

Photographer: Angelo Gialanella

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Delivered 1945 as C-46F 44-78678. Biscayne Aircaft N5617V 1949, Flying Tiger Line, Riddle Airlines. Converted to Super C-46 for Canadian Pacific as CF-CZK 1955, Carolina Aircraft Corp N355K 1963, operating from Miami as Airstar from 1966, cancelled 1970. Rebuilt 1976 as N8875 and leased to Air Haiti, NEBA CP-1616 1980. Skidded off runway Trinidad 5 December 1988 and damaged beyond repair, noted derelict 2008. Originally built as C-46A 42-107368 msn 27055. A complete rebuild in 1976 used major components from msn 22501 taking on this identity in 1976.

Photographer: Adriano Agnoli

Built for the USAAF in 1944 as 44-76070. To N75922 in July 1946, CF-GCJ in 1951 and to a South American based in owner in Santiago Chile by June 1955. Registered in Uruguay as CX-AQG in October 1956 and stored after a crash in 1965. Sold to an Argentinian based owner in 1974 and registered LV-XFN in 1984. Underwent further restoration in 2007 and sold to Brazil as PT-PUA in 2008 with the Insituto Arruda Botelho.

from my collection, photographer unknown;

from my collection, photographer unknown;

from my collection, photographer unknown; del as a Douglas C-54E5 on 4th May 1945 as 44-9085 to US Air Force, to Pan American World Airways in Nov that year and reregd. N88886, sold to Trans Mediterranean Airlines Jan 1961 and sold to Aviation Traders Nov 1963 for conversion, the Carvair operated as G-ATRV for BUAF British United Air Ferries until sold to Compagnie Air Transport (CAT) in May 1967, wfu and b/u Nimes Nov 1972. Location likely Southend.

Ex AL552 with the RAF. Civilianised as G-AHZR in 1946 and registered as SX-DAB 10 Dec 1949. Cancelled 10 Feb 1951 and returned to the UK. To F-BEDS 29 Jun 1951 with Transports Aériens Alpes Provence. CofA expired 1 Jun 1954, stored at Marseiile. Broken up there during the 1960s.

Operated by Air Bridge Carriers. Ex British Airways and still in BEA colours. Delivered new to BEA as a Vanguard G-APEJ on 17 August 1961. Converted to a Merchantman freighter in June 1971. Merged into British Airways 01 April 1974. Sold to Air Bridge Carriers on 13 December 1979. Noted as Hunting Cargo Airlines on 15 August 1992. WFU and stored at East Midlands in December 1992. Broken up and the nose section went to the Brooklands Museum in August 1995.

Delivered to BOAC on 01 Jan 1959 as G-AOVT. To British Eagle on 13 Sep 1963. To Monarch Airlines on 18 Aug 1968. Leased to Invicta International on 13 Dec 1974 and returned to Monarch on 10 Mar 1975. WFU and preserved at Duxford in Jun 1975.

Delivered to the Swiss Air Force as A-703 in 1939. To Ju-Air as HB-HOP in 1982.

The Commemorative Air Force added B-25 44-29869 to their collection back in 1978 when the museum was known as the Confederate Air Force. Restored in 1991, it flew again registered N27493 on April 18, 1992 (the 50th anniversary of the World War II Doolittle Raid on Tokyo). It wears markings from Mediterranean based B-25 43-27493 "Miss Mitchell".

Contracted as 42-108859, this C-47 was delivered to the RAF as KG403 in February 1944. To the RCAF in 1946, it was re-serials 12920 in 1970 before sold on the civil market. Registered CF-BKP when overhauled by Maritime Aircraft Overhaul in December 1971, it was sold to Aero Dyne (N107AD) in May 1972. Salair bought it in 1983 but moved it on to Business Air in December 1986. Next re-registered N700CA to Champlain Enterprises / Champlain Air from 1995, the aircraft was sold to Basler Turbo Conversions in 2013 and stored at Oshkosh, WI.

Former Air France machine. The last operator was the Biafran Government who leased her in June 1969. However by January 1970 she was WFU at Arrecife - Lanzarote and was sadly destroyed by fire in 1984. Registatration changed to look like P-BHBI.