Believed owned by a Mexican Bank. Broken up at Geneva 1994 as I-MGGG

Note the background aircraft. I walked all around that lot without permission. It seems inconceivable today.

Ex Mexicana XA-NAT, in derelict condition. Was sold to Westernair of Albuquerque in Apr 1973 and registered as N777WA a year later, but this registration was never painted on the aircraft. It was ultimately dismantled at Mexico City in the 1980s and trucked to the Parque Hidalgo de Irapuato in Irapuato, which became the Parque Zoológico Irapuato in Apr 1993. The aircraft remained on display there until scrapped in March 2015.

This aircraft was operated for the Governor of Tabasco State. It carried a variety of marks (N57098 allocated but not taken up), XA-DOG, XC-CIG, XC-TAB, N9015P, HK-2282X, HK-2282P, HK-2282W and later HK-2282P.

One of the aircraft of the CIAAC Flying School.

Mexicana's XA-NAT was stored at MEX from Dec 1970 and became N777WA in May 1973, but this was never painted on the aircraft. Bought by Redmond Air in Nov 1979 (along with N888WA now preserved at Everett, and N999WA, scrapped at Chicago) with the intention of forming a club to fly gamblers to Las Vegas. This one remained derelict at the airport right through the 1980s (note the Dan-Air wing tank). It was moved to Irapuato Zoo where it clung onto life in an increasingly poor state until scrapped in March 2015. Sad to think of such a rare and iconic aircraft succumbing to the breakers so recently, some 55 years after first entering service.

An ambulance aircraft.

This was the last FH-227 built, rolled out in 12.68 by Fairchild Hiller as N2783R and sold to Mexico (Unidad de Transporte Aereo del Poder Ejecutivo Federal) in 12.72. To Mexican Navy as MT(T)-216 12.93 and stored from 1995. Some records incorrectly attribute TP-204/XC-DOU to Fairchild F27 c/n 90

Seen hangared with the cockpit covered

This appropriately registered Cub is seen at Mexico City. Despite being a massive International Airport, there are were large numbers of General Aviation aircraft present too.

Although I took this photograph over 40 years ago (as at 2020) I have only recently realised that this was actually the prototype DC8. Sadly this historically important aircraft was broken up at Marana in 1993

Several other aircraft were present at Mexico at that time bearing logo, Banxico II, III. They were owned by the Bank of Mexico.