Delivered new to VASP as PP-SMM 30th Nov 1968 and to TOA Domestic as JA8723 Nov 1977. Re-branded as JAS March 1988 and leased to Air Star Zanzibar March 1994. Sold as N995CL 12th Apr 1996

Delivered new to TOA Domestic 19th Feb 1969 and re-branded as Japan Air System Apr 1988, then transferred to Japan Air Commuter Feb 1992

Delivered new 24th July 1970 and transferred to Japan Air Commuter Apr 1988, then became RP-C3338 with Inter Island Airlines 15th Dec 2006

This YS-11A is the first aircraft in the Civil Aircraft Register of Aruba. Added to the registry on 17 September 1988 with Certificate of Registration number 88/001. Operator Air Aruba.

The second aircraft in the Aruba Civil Aircraft Register with CofR 88/002.

This YS-11A is the first aircraft in the Civil Aircraft Register of Aruba. Added to the registry on 17 September 1988 with Certificate of Registration number 88/001. Operator Air Aruba. It was captured 2 years later without a nose wheel and engines.

Delivered new to Toa Airways 28th March 1970 and merged into TOA Domestic May 1977, then re-branded as JAS Apr 1988. Transferred to Japan Air Commuter and became RP-C3586 10th Nov 2005, then HS-APA 19th March 2008

Delivered new to Toa Airways 28th March 1970 and merged into TOA Domestic May 1977, then re-branded as JAS Apr 1988. Transferred to Japan Air Commuter and became RP-C3586 10th Nov 2005, then HS-APA 19th March 2008

Delivered new to Southwest Airlines SWAL 31st May 1968 and transferred to TOA Domestic Oct 1979. Re-branded as Japan Air System Apr 1988 and sold as N990CL 17th Sep 1991

Delivered new to Southwest Airlines SWAL 31st May 1968 and transferred to TOA Domestic Oct 1979. Re-branded as Japan Air System Apr 1988 and sold as N990CL 17th Sep 1991

Transferred from Japan Air System Oct 1994 and became RP-C2677 24th Oct 2006

Transferred from Japan Air System Oct 1994 and preserved at Wajima School, near Noto Airport, Japan July 2003

Manufactured by Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (NAMC) in 1970, the first flight took place on 04/03/1970 as JQ2141, converted NAMC YS-11A-227. Delivered 05/1970 to Toa Airways, Japan, as JA8765. Re-rgd. 05/1977 to TDA - Toa Domestic Airlines and named 'Yashima'. Registered 04/1988 to JAS Japan Air System, still rgd. as JA8765. Registered 21/05/1992 as N992CL to TCA Limited, Makaha, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Stored at Mojave 10/1992. Reg. canx. on 05/08/1993 as exported to Trinidad and Tobago. Delivered 08/1993 to Air Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, as 9Y-TII. Withdrawn from use 2000.

Ex JA8765, registered 20th May 1992 and sold as 9T-TII Aug 1993

The final days of commercial flying with the YS-11 in Japan. JA8768 with special greetings to the YS-11, where the JAC titels used to be.

Last days of the YS-11 on passenger service in Japan.

My first visit to Itami. The back half is a little distorted due to APU exhaust but it wasn't a plane that I could see every day at home!

N912AX was among four former Airborne Express YS-11's that had been stored at FLL since being retired in 1997. The photo was taken a day before they were sold at auction by the airport authority and by the end of December 2012, all had been scrapped.

The only way I could get an angle on this interesting subject was by precariously balancing on the pitched roof of the security man's hut. D/d Southwest Air Lines 7.71 JA8778; to 9Y-TJB 9.78; took up the Burundi reg shortly before this shot in the ex-Air Caribbean colours but burnt out 3.11.01, said to be because of a stray firework