"Bucket of Bolts" was here with "FIFI" for a few days

Not the best quality. One of the first aircraft pictures that I made. Ex.Bu134693.

Stored at the time with the faded badge of ET65 on the nose. Ex RCAF 1444.

It's been a few years since it has been in the water. Will it ever fly again? The aircraft was de-registered in 2019, so where it went is anybody's guess. Hopefully it has a flying future.

This former USAAF C-45B (ex 43-35492) was lend-leased to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Dec 1943 as an Expeditor I, serialled HB122. On 3 Sep 1952 it was converted to an Expeditor 3T, and ten years later, on 19 Mar 1962, it was sold to the French Air Force, where it became N° 122, coded MT-10. There it last served with GAEL (Groupe Aérien d'Entraînement et de Liaison) and in this photo it still has their emblem on the nose. It was struck off charge on 18 May 1972 and stored at Châteaudun. In 1985 the Beech was acquired by AMPAA (Association des Mécaniciens Pilotes d'Aéronefs Anciens) and preserved at Étampes. In the mid 1990s it moved to the Musée de l'Aviation in Warluis, as seen here.

This Beech 18 is ex F-BHMM, which was briefly based at Lognes in the early 2000s and ended up stored here in late 2003. Its registration was cancelled on 8 Mar 2005 as having been exported to the USA, but apparently those plans fell through because in 2006 it had registration F-AZZF reserved for it. However, even though it was painted as such, it was never officially registered with that reg. This Beech was last seen at Lognes in May 2011, and its current whereabouts are unclear. On 14 Aug 2014 the registration F-AZZF was allocated to a CASA 1-131E Jungmann.

This airframe is in fact ex AT-11 42-37337 c/n 3930, but it is incorrectly quoted by the FAA as serial number 4000. That serial number belongs to AT-11 42-37407, which was remanufactured in the early 1950s as C-45H 51-11879 c/n AF-436.

Actually ex PH-UDT, which never saw military service.

In 2015 this Expeditor was sold by Vancouver Island Air and in June/July 2015 it was ferried on floats from Campbell River to the Pairi Daiza Gardens & Zoo theme park near the town of Brugelette, Belgium. Its flying days are over. It is the end of an era now as it is the last of the several Beech 18's that once operated at Campbell River. It was replaced with a turbine DHC-3 Otter.

This former Niger Air Force Beech 18 (ex 5U-MAW) has been on display at the entrance of the airport since mid 1974. It was falsely marked as F-BCCI, but that registration was removed in 2000/2001. The aircraft was owned by the CCI (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie, the French Chamber of Commerce), hence its former fake registration, and in this photo it carries additional "Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Nice Côte d'Azur" titles. In mid 2010 it was repainted in Breitling colours, still without registration.