Delivered to USAAF in August 1944 as C-54A 42-72263. Converted to DC-4 standard by Douglas in June 1946 serving Panagra and Pan Am as N88925. To Cubana in April 1948 as CU-P188 and later CU-T188, named "Estrella de Cuba". Lost in a collision with a US Navy Beech SNB over Key West Florida on 25 April 1951. From Cubana 60 years ago.

Cubana's Il-62's were regular visitors at European airports. This is their oldest Il-62M, delivered in 1977. It was last seen at Havana in 1996 and scrapped in the late 1990s.

A dull grey winter day, typical for Amsterdam, brought this very nice visitor, not typical for Amsterdam at all. Became CU-C1258 shortly after this photo was taken, then CU-C1419, then sold to Aerocom as ER-IBE in May 2002. It reportedly went to Angola as D2-FCO in 2006, where it was broken up at Luanda in Aug 2015.

Came to Cuba in about 1962. Latterly used as a night-club and now painted all white

Delivered to Cuba new in 1966 and seen wfu at HAV in 1997 in poor condition. The Cuban Antonovs were sometimes seen at Prague or Shannon on their way to or from Kiev for major overhaul

One of my earliest aviation memories is seeing this beauty arrive at Southend for maintenance in the late 'Sixties

Taxiing out as flight CU 471 to HAV.