The EC.725 is a combat search & rescue/troop transport helicopter developed from the AS.532 Cougar with a five-blade composite main rotor. 14 were ordered for the French forces starting in 2005 and production has also commenced under licence in Brazil

On delivery along with 216 (c/n 124) on a bright winter's day. Ran off the runway at Mandera in Kenya on 16.4.92 and was w/o

This superb-looking Noratlas served with ET 64 in Djibouti, hence the exotic camo

Near the end of a 27-year Naval career but looking immaculate - operated at the time as a VIP transport by Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Southern Europe. To MASDC in 1983 and stored at Fairbanks by Everts from 1999 as N2409R

BEA's "Admiral Class" Viking 1B "Robert Blake" on finals to its Northolt Airport base. It served BEA from May 1947 until sale to TAIP as CR-IAD in February 1956.

Acquired new in 1973 and still flying with the Serbian AF - with 'Yugoslav Air Force' titles around 40 years later but then placed into store

Previously modified as a WP-3A weather recon aircraft. SoC 4.07 and now in AMARG

The former Bu No. 160754 joined the RAAF 27.5.78 seen here on a rare visit to the UK while with 10 Sqdn before the marks were toned down. On 26.4.91 she ditched in a lagoon in the Cocos Islands just off the beach. Attempts to drag the aircraft out of the water failed and the wreck was cut up and eventually dumped at sea, although Air Force personnel made several visits for about a year to retrieve parts. The nose was initially preserved on the islands and the tail became a memorial back at RAAF Edinburgh

The first C-130H off the Marietta line, accepted by the RNZAF's 40 Sqn back in 3.65 and still going strong. Camouflaged from 1988 and now in the inevitable grey overall

Looking superb on the Northolt ramp, this 58th MAS VIP JetStar ended its days at Rhein-Main as a battle damage repair practice airframe

Looking and sounding good, the HAC Hurricane gave a spirited sunset display on arrival, before taking position in the Night Photo-shoot flightline. A Canadian-built machine, she was restored to flight by 1989 and painted as 'Z5140' in 2004. Normally based at Duxford, last August she ranged as far as Moscow to take part in the Russian air force's centenary airshow

32 Sqn have recently added this BAe 146 (ex OO-TAZ of TNT), classified in RAF service as a C.3. First delivered to Air Jet as F-GOMA in 1994

Operated for the Empire Test Pilots School at Boscombe Down under the QinetiQ Long Term Partnering Agreement. Ex G-BZAY of BA CityFlyer

Strangely marked as 96205 instead of the usual 26205. Based with the 56th RQS at Lakenheath, a place I associate more with the good old days of Super Sabres!

At the time of this nightshoot, recently back from Belize deployment. The serial of the Bell marks a departure from convention in that the digits start with a '0'