Delivered to Northwest Orient as N571 in Nov. 1956, their fleet number 571 can just be discerned on the nose-wheel door. It was sold to Zantop in Aug. 1961, passed on to Universal Airlines in Sept. 1966 and then to Span East Airlines as N612SE in Jan.1970. After Span East closed in 1976 it was acquired by Conner Airlines and re-registered N612CA. Florida Aircraft Leasing became owners in Nov. 1984 and North American Register and Transport, who re-registered it N29630, in Jan. 1988. It was last reported derelict at Puerto Plata Airport, Dominican Republic in April 1998 still wearing N612CA!

Parked on a remote platform at the end of runway 33, seen from a Ethiopian DHC-8-400. Had to quickly change my seat when I saw this line up parked along the route to the runway. Suhura Airways was formed in 2009 by Suhura Ismail Khan, Ethiopia's richest woman entrepeneur. The airline was part of her triving khat trading business, which was registered at the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce under the number 571 (seen on the fin of this aircraft).