Registration confirmed by another picture. West African Airways Corporation (WAAC) was originally run by the governments of Nigeria, Gambia, the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Sierra Leone, but was continued by Nigeria alone from 1958, becoming Nigeria Airways. VR-NET to G-AOZW in 1957. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois

Operated as a water bomber. Delivered new to Flying Tiger line as N34955 on 01 Sep 1953. To Northwest Orient on 30 Nov 1953. To Zantop on 16 Sep 1961. To Saturn Airways on 17 Jun 1966. To TAISA as TI-1079C in Nov 1970. To SIS-Q Flying services as N48286 on 04 Jul 1975. Reregistered to N777SQ 19 Aug 1975. To Misty Air on 08 Nov 1979 and reregistered N12347 on 04 Apr 1980. Later to Intak, Matomco Oil Co and Aerolaska. To Northern Pacific Transport in Sep 1986. To Everts Air Fuel in Oct 1992. Registration cancelled 04 Jun 2013 and in 2020 was in the process of being converted into a house.

How is this for an executive aircraft ! Delivered new to KLM as PH-DSR on 10 Dec 1958. To Interpublic Corp as N904ME on 25 Oct 1962. To General American Oil Corp on 12Jan 1968. To Pyramid Oil Co on 05 Mar 1973 and reregistered to N777EA on 29 Jan 1974. Last flight on 21 Feb 1976 to Goodyear and stored. Still there in 2023.

Delivered to the USAF as 53-3287 in 1955. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code CG003 in 1974. Sold in 1976 and registered as N2904F in 1978. Operated by Jet Way from 1979 to 1983. To Conifair as C-GBYS in 1983 then to Air Cargo Express as N3047V in 2002 and Everts Air Cargo in 2003. Stored at Fairbanks, AK.

Delivered to the USAAF as 44-78702 in 1945. Sold as N1825M in 1950 and used by a number of operators. Operated by Transcontinental Airlines from 1976 to 1983. Withdrawn from use in 1985 and scrapped.

Delivered to Northeast Airlines as N6587C in 1957. To Olympic Airways as SX-DAS in 1968. Sold as N111AS in 1972 and converted to a DC-6B(F) freighter for Zantop in 1973. Withdrawn from use at Detroit-Willow Run in 1982 and scrapped.

Delivered to the US Navy as R6D-1 131614 in 1953. To the USAF as C-118A 51-17656 in 1958. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code CG060 in 1975. Sold as N3022F in 1976. To Jet Way by 1981 then to Confifair as C-GBYA in 1983. Destroyed in a fatal crash into the side of a mountain near Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, QC, Canada while on a spraying flight in 1989.

Revuechrome S21 slide scan. Built 1968 for Channel Airways. BEA 1972, Northeast 1973, merged into British Airways 1974. Flown to Wroughton 1981 for preservation with Science Museum. Replaced by a-3B and moved to Hatfield 1989 for trials, finally scrapped 2002.

Delivered to Northeast Airlines as N6582C in 1957. To Olympic Airways as SX-DAP in 1967. Sold as N111AP in 1972 and converted to a DC-6B(F) freighter for Zantop in 1973. To other owners after 1989. Scrapped at Detroit-Willow Run in 2006.

To the Detroit Institute of Aeronautics as a ground trainer in 1973. Registration N86599 allocated but not applied. Flew the last ever C-124 flight to McChord AFB, WA in 1986. Preserved at the McChord Air Museum.

Built as a CV440 in 1957 and registered as N8473H. To Canadair as CF-LMN in 1959 and converted to a CV540/CL-66C. To the RCAF as 11161 in 1962. To General Motors as N969N in 1966. Converted to a CV580 for North Central Airlines in 1967 who merged into Republic Airlines in 1979 who merged into Northwest Airlines in 1986. To other operators from 1988 then to Air Tahoma as N582P in 1986. Withdrawn from use at Columbus-Rickenbacker when they ceased operations in 2009. Scrapped in 2021.

Replaced by Ikeja in 1942, Apapa airport in Lagos is almost forgotten. This photo was certainly taken there, presumably in early 1938, when a similar shot of Dione was published with the following caption: 'The Air Mail at Apapa, Lagos. A weekly air mail and passenger service is now in regular operation between Lagos and London. The service is by Kano and Khartoum.' G-ADFF is to DH.86B standard with auxiliary tailfins, which were fitted in April-May 1937. Damaged here at Lagos on 21 March 1939. Transferred to BOAC and to Egypt in 1940. Impressed as AX760 in 1941. Damaged at Lydda in November 1941 and written off in 1942. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois

Fake registration, is actually ex N8042W.

Delia was sent Africa in late March 1936. In October 1937 it started a new route between Lagos and Accra on the Gold Coast, operated by Elders Colonial Airways from Freetown. Photo believed taken at Lagos - Apapa. Delia was transferred to the Far East in June 1938. Returned to Africa by BOAC, Delia crashed at Minna, Nigeria on 17 June 1941. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois

This Express was flown out to Khartoum in early 1936 to survey a new air route from Sudan to Nigeria. The source says the photo was taken at Apapa in Lagos and we think this is correct, though flights initially terminated at Kano pending improvement of Apapa. Daedalus was transferred to the Far East in late 1937. It catched fire and burnt at Bangkok in December 1938. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois