Built as a Marathon Mk.1, registered 29 December 1950. One of seven of the type earmarked for BEA's island routes, for which it was allotted the class name 'MacLeod' but the order was cancelled due to the high operating costs. To WAAC as VR-NAO 26 September 1952, when it was upgraded to a Mk.1A. Restored to Balfour Marine Engineering as G-AMGX 28 April 1955. It was fitted out with juke boxes for a proposed sales tour of the USA in August 1955, which was aborted and the aircraft languished at Southend until scrapped in 1962. Cancelled 28 November 1962 as PWFU.

First flight at Luton 24 April 1949. Taken on charge by RAF as VS613 April 1949. Struck off charge and sold to Aviation Traders, registered G-AOPO 30 May 1956. Converted for civil use at Southend 1957/58 and made first flight after conversion 19 March 1958. Cancelled 11 September 1958 as sold in Belgium and registered to Publiciel as OO-OPO 19 September 1958. C.of A. expired 25 October 1962 and cancelled 22 March 1977. Stored at the Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels.

Ex W1731. Originally built as an Anson XI. Registered G-ALXH 16 January 1950. Rebuilt in 1955 to Anson 19/2 standard, being re-engined and using the fuselage of PH808. Shortly after taking off from Leeds-Bradford en route to Belfast on 9 April 1963, smoke filled the cockpit and it was thought the starboard engine had failed, whereupon that engine was shut down and a forced landing attempted in a field near Guiseley, Yorkshire, in which substantial damage was incurred. The three occupants were uninjured. Cancelled 14 May 1963 as destroyed.

First flight 9 October 1947 as VL233. To King's Flight 25 January 1947. Registered G-APOO on 6 August 1958 to Tradair, named 'Mercia' in 1960. Registered to Channel Airways 10 January 1963. Last flight was on 18 August 1964, following which it was Withdrawn from Use at Southend and scrapped there in 1965. Registration cancelled 7 March 1969 as Permanently Withdrawn From Use.

Delivered to the USAF as 52-7133. To the Belgian Air Force in 1954. Withdrawn from use in 1972. To the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend in 1973 then to Medway Royal Aviation Society, Rochester in 1980 for restoration and repainted in USAF Thunderbirds colours as 6771. To the RAF Museum, Cosford in 1990 then to the Bentwaters Cold War Museum in 2019.

Delivered to USAAF as 42-100884 in 1943, to RAF as TS423 in 1944. Depicted while in use by Ferranti with the nose fitted to test the air-pass radar for the EE Lightning. Registered as G-DAKS 14th Sept.1979, to Aces High 8th May 1980. Cancelled 5th March 1998 upon transfer to US registry as N147DC and still current as such February 2023.

Prototype of the Accountant airliner, an ambitious Dakota-replacement project by Southend-based Aviation Traders (Engineering). A note on this photograph states 'Under final stages of construction', which places it on an unknown date in 1957, given that it made its first flight on 9th July 1957, as G-41-1. Registered as G-ATEL 30th August 1957 and displayed at the Farnborough Air Show the following month. Sadly it attracted little interest and the project was abandoned, the aircraft making its last flight on 10th January 1958. Cancelled 8th Oct.1959 as PWFU and broken up at Southend Feb.1960.

Registered in March 1973. Owned by Gill Aviation until November 1976 and operated In the John Player Special racing team colours. Overran the runway at Denham on 24th October 2013.

Crashed while spraying at Parsonage Farm, Norfolk on 2nd July 1976.

Badly damaged in take-off accident at Keyston, Cambs on 15th April 2015. Re-registered 14th August 2015.

Repainted and ready for application of Flying Doctor Service of Australia markings and fictitious registration "VH-FDT".

Leased to Austral in December 1973 as LV-PSW. Restored as G-AWWY February 1974 still on lease to Austral. Sold to Austral October 1975 as LV-LHT. WFU September 1992.

About to roll on runway 06. On charter to BAF from Cie Air Transport and now wearing almost full BAF colours and named "Porky Pete". Purchased by BAF in February 1973 as G-AREK.

Macedonian Aviation was formed in the summer of 1972 with C-47 G-AMPO and, later this Dove G-APZU, both based at Southend. The Dove arrived on 24th November 1972 but was sold to Fairflight on 15th March 1973.

Recently moved to external display at the Historic Aircraft Museum at the time of the photo. When the museum closed and its contents were auctioned in May 1983 it sold for £26,000 to Paul Raymond for the still-born London War Museum. It was auctioned again in 1985 selling to Kermit Weeks' Flying Heritage Collection for £24,000. It was stored at North Weald for several years, then Norfolk, arriving at Duxford in 2014. Believed to have subsequently departed to the USA.

The fuselage of Bill Francis' Spitfire on loan to the HAM and recently arrived at the time of the photo. Bill purchased the aeroplane from Pinewood Studios in 1968 with a view to restoration. It was used for cockpit shots in "Reach for the Sky" and for spares at Henlow for "Battle of Britain". Bill moved it to the garden of his bungalow in Hampton Gardens, Southend, later loaning it to the HAM after partial restoration. It moved with Bill to Southam in 1977. In 1982 it was sold to Stephen Gray, becoming G-CDAN. Subsequently restored to flight as ZK-XVI, VH-XVI. Current in 2022 marked as TB863.

On external display at the Historic Aircraft Museum. Ex Danish AF 329 (previously 31-329) and RCAF FE905. Subsequently painted in USAF colours as "93584/LTA-584". When the museum closed and its contents were auctioned in May 1983 it sold for £6,000. Acquired by RAF Museum and displayed as FE905 at Hendon since 1994.

Painted in false 98 Sqdn colours to represent RAF Mitchell HD368. Auctioned for £6,200 when the museum closed in May 1983, displayed at Duxford then derelict at North Weald, dismantled and stored at Booker. Since July 2019 it has been stored at a private location in West Sussex.

G-APRJ on display at the Historic Aircraft Museum repainted from RF342 and wearing its old Class B test registration of G-29-1. When the museum closed and its contents were auctioned in May 1983 it sold for £8,500. The majority of the aeroplane ended up with the Australian National Aviation Museum while the nose (a Lancaster nose from the pilot's windscreen forward, ex-TW911) went to Flying Heritage, Seattle.

On external display in the early days of the Historic Aircraft Museum. When the museum closed and its contents were auctioned in May 1983 it sold for £6,500. It was subsequently registered G-JETM and displayed at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood.