Note the Blue Angels F9F Panthers in the background which helps provide a date range for the photo. N37684 was leased to Northwest for a year from November 1951 and did not return to service with National. Sold in December 1952 to JAL as JA6007. Photo from: Kurt Boettcher

Photographer: Frank MacSorley

About to roll on runway 06. On charter to BAF from Cie Air Transport and now wearing almost full BAF colours and named "Porky Pete". Purchased by BAF in February 1973 as G-AREK.

Canadian AF 17514 was transferred to the Aeronautical Establishment as CF-SVP-X in 1965. Fitted with tailboom for magnetic survey gear, for mapping of the earth's magnetic field, and to develop submarine detection gear. Last operational flight as such on 8 May 1975. Offered for sale in November 1978, and sold to Aircraft Salvage of Dallas Inc. in February 1979. Became N8022L in August 1979 (registration in very small print on the tail in this photo). Alledgedly used for smuggling in the Caribbean during the early 1980s. Stored (possibly seized) at Great Inagua, Bahamas, and broken up there in the early 1980s.

Ex USAAF 42-72598

About to board G-ASHZ for the scheduled flight to Ostend. It had been recently renamed "Fat Annie". Reported as stored at Gainesville TX as N89FA in 2021.

Awaiting passengers for the flight to Southend. Reported as stored at Gainesville TX as N89FA in 2021.

taken by my late father on one of his rare airport visits in the late 1950s

Overseas Aviation ceased operations in August 1961 and most of their fleet of former Trans Canada Airlines Canadair DC4M and C-4 North Stars ended up in storage at Coventry. CF-TFT was one of the first to be ferried from Gatwick on 21st October 1961. Having failed to attract a buyer, the aircraft was broken up in 1965.

Later XU-GAI

Later 56533 with the US Navy, then preserved by Naval Air Museum Pensacola NAS Florida USA.

Later to Derby Airways whose name changed to British Midland on 1 October 1964. Withdrawn from service in October 1967.