Parked on the east side of the airport, right beside the public road.

N8160c at its home base at Denver Stapleton.

N8160C was scrapped about 1982. Ports of Call's Convairs and 707s visited Sydney several times. Peter Ricketts photo

Originally PP-VGJ with Varig from 1963, this Convair 990 would go to Modern Air Transport in June 1971. Bought by Denver Ports of Call travel club in June 1975, the club would fly a total of six 990s before changing over to Boeing 707. This particular 990 was withdrawn in the early 80s at Marana, AZ and broken up there in May 1986.

Ex-AA N8439 seen at its home base in Denver.

Seen parked at the cargo area between flights, was N319PA with Pan Am.

First flying in 12.60, American Flyers operated this L-188 for much of the time till bought by PoC in 2.72. Sold to Gulf Air Transport 10.81, converted to freighter 9.85 and ended up with TPI and JBQ, finally being scrapped at OPF 11.96

N7518A was reregistered N702PC in November 1981. Ports of Call bought it from American Airlines in August 1980.

The Convair 990 was never used on scheduled services into Australia, so finding one parked on the TAA maintenance apron was a surprise and a treat.

Delivered new to United Airlines in April 1958. Sold in May 1964. Operated by Ports of Call from May 1967 until March 1975 based at Denver Stapleton.

The Denver-based travel club acquired this ex-AA 707, formerly N8408, in 7.82 and operated her till sold in 8.89 to Fresh Fruit Traders as F-GHFT. Next became 9Q-ADS with Occidental in 5.95, changed hands several times and acquired by Rom-Atlantic as 9Q-ROK in 2.02 then Wimbi Dira as 9Q-CWG in 7.03; noted at Kinshasa 6.08

Delivered to Varig as PP-VJF in 3.63 and to Modern Air as N5625 in 7.71. Bought by PoC in 6.75 and wfu about a year before this photo. Finally broken up 7.98

I have always admired the nice colours of Denver based travel club Ports of Call. The company was founded in 1966, and when this photo was taken they operated an interesting fleet of ten B707s and three rare Convair 990s. Although the 707s sometimes visited Amsterdam during the mid 1980s, their 990s unfortunately never did. In 1986 the company changed its name to Skyworld Airlines, but business was declining and they were forced to shut down in 1994.