This An-2 was originally delivered to Aeroklub PRL in March 1976 as SP-EGA, and then in September 2007 the plane started flying for Aeroklub Warmińsko-Mazurski. Its CoA expired in May 2010 and the plane was exported to Germany and has been preserved at Suhl with this fake registration and colours since around October 2014. It also carries 'SP-EGA Olstzyn' on the engine cowling.

Our company Argosy looking in need of a good repaint which it eventually did into Elan colours. This plane did the overnight Shannon service. I got a jump seat flight on it. We had to climb up a ladder to get on the flight deck. On the way to Shannon we had St Elmo's Fire on the wind screen. Delivered to Riddle Airlines as N6502R on 5 Jan 1961. To Capitol Airways 1 Jul 1962 and Zantop Air Transport 1 Sep 1965. To N895U with Universal Airlines on 21 Sep 1966. Sold to Sagittair 28 Feb 1972. Bought by Fields Aircraft Services 28 Mar 1977 as G-BEOZ. To ABC Aug 1979. WFU at EMA Mar 1986 and preserved at EMA Aeropark.

Delivered new to Aer Lingus on 21 February 1958 as EI-AJK. She spent a short spell on lease in Switzerland as HB-ILR in 1969-71. She came on to the UK register in July 1973 as G-BBDK and moved around various operators before BAF acquired her on 07 September 1983. To British World as G-OPFE on 27 October 1994. DBR in a wheels up landing at Belfast on 24 March 1996. Photo taken from the Air Bridge Carriers warehouse on the freight ramp.

Delivered to the Spanish Air Force as T.2-142 in 1948. Later T.2B-142. Sold as N9012N in 1978. Arrived in the UK in 1979. Flown to Dublin in 1982 and stored. Preserved at Ugglarp, Sweden from 1992.

Photographer: Adrian Stanislovaitis. K25 slide scan. Built 1948 as NC94218 for American Airlines, retired 1958. N1L with various corporate owners, reregistered N7779 1968. Hughes Aircraft Co. N314H 1970. Air Resorts 1982, operating for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh alongside DC-3's N2647 and N31MC and Islander N555JK out of Antelope OR, then called Rajneeshpuram until he was expelled from the USA in 1985. The Convair was withdrawn at Lewis University Airport at Chicago-Romeoville. Sold 1998, dismantled and transported to rural Ohio for conversion into a restaurant but plan failed.

Postcard. The aircraft was originally an S-39A and was registered from 1930 until April 1948. Probably the last owner was Ebon L Mason of Springfield, Missouri.

Taxiing out from Victoria's Inner Harbour through the narrow connecting channel to depart from the more open water of the Outer Harbour. Built in 1960 for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Vazar turbine conversion for Harbour Air was carried out over the winter of 2002/03.

ex Ghana air force. After some years of storage these aircraft were scrapped at Basel.

After landing in Victoria's Outer Harbour, taxiing through the narrow connecting channel to the Inner Harbour and its seaplane docks.

In the striking colours of an independent Whistler Air's final scheme, sitting at its base on the appropriately named Green Lake at Whistler, awaiting its next business. Beyond the glacial lake, forest fire smoke obscures the mountains in the middle distance. Taken over by Harbour Air in 2012, and by 2015 repainted in a variant of Harbour Air's own colours albeit retaining Whistler Air titles.

Taxiing away from the seaplane docks and heading across Vancouver harbour for departure.

Taxiing out from Victoria's Inner Harbour seaplane docks towards the Outer Harbour for departure.

This Sea Prince was built in 1952 and flew with 780 sqn at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall. After SOC it was stored at Kemble (EGBP) and was then preserved at the Gatwick Aviation Museum.

Making a necessarily steep approach, when arriving over the city itself, to land in Victoria's Outer Harbour.