This photo probably shows an accident that occurred after 8709 was disposed of by the RCAF. The accident is not in its RCAF records and it had in fact been stored pending disposal since 1945. 8709 was sold as CF-DUV in June 1946 and was cancelled from the register in 1949 as "written off". The caption on the photo says it was flying to Fraser Valley when it crashed on the dairy farm. Photo from: Revelstoke Museum and Archives

On 30 January 1970, the two ex-TAA Viscounts at Southend, VH-TVD & VH-TVF, were moved from the centre of the airfield to a site on the North side of the airfield (as depicted above), where they were completely stripped of all useful spares prior to scrapping. The latter task had commenced by 7 February 1970, both fuselages having been severed aft of the wing trailing edge. By 15 February the two aircraft had been reduced to a fast-diminishing heap of scrap, which had completely disappeared by 21 February 1970.

First flight 30 January 1955, delivered to TAA at Essendon, Melbourne 2 April 1955, named 'Ernest Giles', later renamed 'Peter Warburton'. WFU and stored at Essendon 7 June 1967. To Keegan Aviation for sale in the UK, arriving at Southend 28 September 1967. No sale materialised and sold to Flightspares Ltd on 16 January 1970 for parting out and eventually scrapped at Southend in February 1970.

Force landed on Shumshu Island, Kuril Islands, Russia in 1945 after an engine failure. Front fuselage recovered in 2003 and brought to the museum.

First flight 1 December1954 and delivered to TAA at Essendon, Melbourne 24 December 1954. WFU and stored at Essendon 6 April 1967. To Keegan Aviation for sale in the UK, arriving at Southend 12 September 1967. No sale materialised and sold to Flightspares Ltd. on 16 January 1970 for parting out and eventually scrapped at Southend in February 1970.

B-17G Ye Olde Pub above Marana, AZ

Photographer: Clive Head. K64 slide scan. Built 1958 for BEA, Cambrian Airways 1971, merged into British Airways 1974, BAF 1981. Leases to Air Algerie, Jersey Air Ferries and Virgin Atlantic over the years. Renamed British World 1993, operating for Parcelforce as G-PFBT from 1994. Heli-Jet 1997, ferried to Lanseria and stored, scrapped 2006. BAF regularly experimented with livery changes adopting script titles in 1990 initially retaining "BAF" tail titling.

KK143 on an aeromedical flight. Used as a target tug in 1952-53 with 123(R) Unit at Sea Island. Struck off charge in 1970 and sold as CF-AUQ. Photo from: Greater Vernon Museum and Archives

Built as 42-23648 and flew with KLM (PH-TBG) after World War II, this C-47 was converted to an executive transport in 1951 by Atlantic Aviation. Utilized by several companies, first as N9997F and later N104E, the aircraft would be registered to Air O'Hare in 1973 as N9BC. On January 1, 1975, it was en route from the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale on a charter flight when the number one propeller oversped. The engine was shut down, but the remaining engine eventually overheated and lost power. Forced to ditch near Fort Lauderdale, the three people on board were rescued.

This is a former Eastern Airlines Martin 404 delivered January 23, 1953. Later with Southern Airways, it came to Florida Airlines via subsidiary Shawnee Airlines in 1977 as Southern ran into financial difficulties. Florida Airlines ran into financial problems itself as deregulation allowed majors to fly secondary routes, declaring bankruptcy in 1980. They flew their Martinliners during restructuring until the final shutdown in 1981. With Pro Air from 1983 - 89, the aircraft has been stored at Flying Tigers Airport outside Paris, TX since 1990.

Former L-20A 58-2011 was delivered to the US Army April 27, 1959. Acquired by Lauzon Aviation circa 1973, the aircraft has continued to fly to into the bush with various outfitters in Ontario and Manitoba. At the time of uploading, the aircraft is current with Alair MHA Enterprises based at St. Theresa Point Airport in Manitoba.

The original "Memphis Belle" on display in the World War II Gallery at NMUSAF. Built at Boeing Seattle, she was named after Capt. Robert K. Morgan's girlfriend Margaret Polk. Flying with the 324th BS, 91st BG at Bassingbourn, England, the B-17 was the second USAAF bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe between Nov. 1942 and 17 May 1943, preceded by 358th BS B-17F "Hell's Angels" in this feat. She was the first to return to the USA and completed a three-month war bond tour with more than 30 stops.

This An-2 was originally delivered to the Ukranian directorate of Aeroflot as CCCP-40240 in November 1986and then from August 1993 the plane became UR-40240 and flew with Avialini Ukrayiny. In August 2000 it was exported to Romania and reistered YR-LAR started flying for Aviatia Utilitara, although operated by Aero Scoroget. From November 2010 the plane was fully flying for Aero Scoroget from LRCB, however, the fuselage is now stored in this compound on the east side of the airfield. Note the small propeller atop the fuselage, this is used to stir the liquid in the chemical tank during flight.