Seen on the 2000 Brize Norton photo call. ZD240 has been scrapped since.

This twin-Beech has no military background but has been restored to resemble an RCAF photographic section aircraft.

Ex-Avensa Convair 580 YV-53C, (note YV-63 behind), in temporary storage at Miami Intl. in November 1979. Later that month it went to Plymouth Leasing as N4806Q and converted to cargo configuration; re-registered N588PL it operated for a number of US and Canadian carriers and in August 1980, whilst operating for Interstate Airlines, it survived a wheels up landing on a foamed runway at Boston Logan after having an undercarriage problem. In April 1986 it was re-registered C-GNMQ with Nordair Metro returning to the US as N118GT in 1990, and is thought to have been scrapped at Detroit soon after.

North Star 17515 shows it is in urgent need of some TLC outside the Canada Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe in 2005.

Formerly with Kenmore Air, now with Seawind Aviation, operating from Ketchikan. Seen taking off as we sailed through the Tongass Narrows on the cruise ship Volendam.

About to land on runway 33

Final to land r23. Sorry, date not logged at time, estimate given, slide dated July 1984.

sold to Fleetair Services in 1976 (photographer not known)

ex VH-TAR Trans Australian. Converted by General Dynamics to a 600 series in 1966 (photographer not known)

Delivered to the Oman Police as A4O-CD in 1979 then to Trident Aviation as 5Y-OPL in 1998. Damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Lokichoggio, Kenya in 2008.

Former US Navy as 48317. Registered as N1495V in 1951 for ferry flight to the Netherlands. To the Netherlands Navy as P-212 in 1952, later 16-212. Preserved at Bosbad Hoeven from 1957. Moved to the Militaire Luchtvaart Museum - MLM, Kamp Zeist in 1982 then to Soesterberg for storage in 2005. Moved to the Nederlands Transport Museum, Nieuw-Vennep for restoration in 2020. Back to Soesterberg in 2023.

open-air maintenance at 4000m on this tired looking former REAL/Varig and Iberia Metropolitan (photographer not known)

Probably off on another race horse charter. I have flown on this aircraft from LTN when I worked for Air Bridge with horses to Beauvais and Malpensa. Delivered to BEA - British European Airways on 24 Jan 1962 and called Swiftsure. Converted from a Vanguard to a Merchantman Apr 1970. Merged into British Airways on 1 Apr 1974. Sold to Air Bridge Carriers on 25 Nov 1976. Renamed Hunting Cargo Airlines on 15 Aug 1992. WFU and stored at East Midlands Feb 1995. Later broken up, nose section preserved.

VH-USY served with Australian National Airways from 1936 to 1947. Sold for scrap in 1948, it was converted into a caravan. The front was hitched onto the bed of a truck, the rear supported on four tyres (two doubles) under the name Laze-away Land Cruiser. It is being preserved as an aviation relic and at the time of the photo was squeezed into a suburban front yard.