Ex N7710E, F-OBNC. This aircraft carries the only recorded use of the VQ-M registration prefix. See comments affixed to other photographs of this aircraft taken on 3 December 2008 and 11 February 2015.

Ex N7710E, F-OBNC. This aircraft bears the only recorded use of the VQ-M registration prefix. Although reported as withdrawn from use and broken up 8 October 1970, it had been found at this location 38 years later, it having been offered to the restaurant owner to display in his grounds. He admitted to knowing nothing about aircraft but had accepted the offer and had re-assembled it as best he could. By the date of this visit, some further work had been carried out, it now had a tailplane and elevator, the cowlings had been reattached and a propeller (of sorts) fitted, albeit still engineless.

Ex N7710E (cancelled from the USCAR 15 July 1959 as exported to Madagascar), F-OBNC. The only recorded use of the VQ-M registration prefix. Owned by the well-known Mauritian pilot P.Lagesse. Reported as withdrawn from use and broken up 8 October 1970 but found by chance at this location 38 years later. The aircraft had been in store and following the death of its owner, the new owner of the property where it had been stored offered it to the restaurant owner to put on display in his grounds (along with his classic car collection), failing which he was going to dispose of it.

The second Auster operated by Southend-based Rochford Hundred Flying Group. The primer on the rear fuselage had been applied following repairs necessitated by a ground-loop on landing at Southend. The aircraft was written-off in a non-fatal crash in the Jura Mountains above Chézery, France on 10th August 1972 while en route from Geneva to Macon. It was cancelled from the UK Register as 'destroyed' on 3rd October 1972.

The second Auster operated by Southend-based Rochford Hundred Flying Group, having replaced their Auster 5D G-ANHX. It was written-off in a non-fatal crash in the Jura Mountains above Chézery, France on 19th August 1972 while en route from Geneva to Macon. It was cancelled from the UK Register as 'destroyed' on 3rd October 1972.

Arrived at Southend the previous day, 14th June 1969, on delivery to the Rochford Hundred Flying Group, to whom it was registered 4th July 1969. It replaced their earlier Auster 5D G-ANHX and was operated by that group until it was written off in a non-fatal crash in the Jura Mountains above Chézery, France on 10th August 1972 while en route from Geneva to Macon, with the three occupants sustaining only minor injuries. It was cancelled from the UK Register as 'destroyed' on 3rd October 1972.

Aircraft operated by the Southend Light Aviation Centre, based at Southend (EGMC/SEN).

This aircraft was later converted to Aérospatiale SA.315B Lama (c/n.05).

Ex 43-30480 and HB-OEG 26.9.46/cx 21.9.55. Incident on 18. Aug. 1956 - collision with a sheep on Runway during Landing. Still active.

Ex OO-JAC

VH-INK had arrived at Stansted from Rome two days previously, on 25th June 1965, for conversion by Aviation Traders into ATL-98 Carvair No.20.

The Federal Aviation Agency became the Federal Aviation Administration in April 1967.

Ex NJ633

Ex N2341P, D-EFYV