Built in 1956 as G-AOGH for Hunting Clan but never entered service and joined Icelandair in April 1957. Seen at Wymeswold for attention by Field Aircraft Services, the aircraft crashed three months later on approach to Oslo's Fornebu Airport.

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild

American Export Airlines used the aircraft for route surveys. Passed to the US Navy as 99080 in 1944. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Gleaming in the setting sun on Lake Hood in Anchorage, Alaska.

Originally one of National Airlines fleet of Lockheed Constellations (N7132C) 1957 - 1963. Bought by Nordair in 1965, the aircraft was sold to CanAiRelief in 1969. The aid organization was formed during the Biafrian War to preform humanitarian flights to aid starving civilians. CF-NAK was caught on the ground during a Nigerian air attack and destroyed at Uli airport on December 17, 1969.

Based in Kamloops, BC, Aviair Aviation operated this Beech G18S from 1982 until it went to the USA as N9669R in April 1987. It's still current there at the time of uploading.

Special delivery for Laurentian Air Services. After eight years in Australia, this Beaver returned to Canada for re-build after sale to Laurentian. Emerging registered CF-CCJ (later C-FCCJ), the floatplane is current as N450TN at the time of uploading

Originally registered NC2976 to Grumman in 1948, the first owner of this Mallard became Charles F Kettering, inventor and recently retired head of research for General Motors. Privately owned by him 1949 - 59 as N5115, it also flew for GM until sold to the New York Yankees as N51151 after Kettering's death. Pictured with Crow, Inc (1965 - 78), a Toledo OH charter company bringing customers for Northern Ontario fishing camps. To Chalks International Airline in 1979, it was converted to a G-73T Turbo Mallard in 1982. Re-registered N142PA in 1998, it was retired in 2005 and dismantled in 2007.

This 1957 Beaver flew for Pacific Western Airlines in the 60s . After service with West Coast Air Services and Northern Mountain Airlines, the floatplane was with Northern Thunderbird Air when it was salvaged after an accident in August 1976. Pictured getting final work after a rebuild, it would get modifications with Advanced Wing Technologies' wings and an aft cabin extension in 2001. After a landing accident in May 2016, Avionnerie Valdor of Val d'Or, QC (owner of the Advanced Wings STCs since 2004) bought the aircraft for re-build. It was put back on the Canadian Registry in July 2019.

For the 100th anniversary of the Italian AF this preserved C-47 got an immaculate new coat of paint.

still in basic Transafrik colors

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1962 as N605SA for Slick Airways, merged into Airlift International 1966. Leased to TMA 1967, returned 1969. Transporte Aereo Rioplatense LV-JTN 1971, crashed 18 July 1981 near Erevan in unclear circumstances while being intercepted by Soviet fighters having strayed into Soviet Airspace.

This was the prototype Cessna T-50. Delivered to Pan American and sent to Guatemala in November 1940. Registration cancelled in 1941. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild

Ex N38M modified by Graubart Aviation to Tri Gear and displayed as such at the Paris Airshow in 1963. Bought by the Battenfeld Machinery Co of Cologne and owned by them until returning to the US as N70DG in 1975. Struck off the US register in July 1982.

The two Lithuanian Dragon Rapides. Data for the nearest aircraft - the other is clearly marked 702 here. It seems 701 wore its serial on the starboard side only, and 702 on the port side only. Photo assumed taken at Hatfield. Photo from: British Aerospace