Delivered to Trans Canada AL as CF-TKB in December 1960 and transferred to Air Canada when TCAL was renamed on 1st June 1964. It was re-registered as G-AYFN to Air Holdings in June 1970, leased to Thor Air Cargo as TF-YES in March 1971 but restored as G-AYFN in October 1971. Sold to Air Trader Sweden AB in December 1971 it returned as G-AYFN in March 1973. Sold to Invicta International in October 1973 it served until September 1975 when bought by Europe Aero Service as F-BXAJ. It flew its last service on July 27, 1979 and withdrawn from use at Perpignan and was last noted in one piece in 1985.

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Hot afternoon so a little heat haze is visible through my Prinz Galaxy 300mm and Praktica Nova!

slide scan from the NK collection. - Air Trader A/B operated three Vanguards on freight charters, but the airline had to suspend operations after about one year again. The leased Vanguards returned to Air Holdings; a forth example of the type, acquired for spares only, remained derelict at Air Traders homebase at Stockholm-Bromma. - SE-FTI was later used by EAS and Merpati; it was noted at Jakarta in 1985, wfu as PK-MVA, and was subsquently scrapped.

slide scan from the NK collection. - F-BTOU was the first Vanguard for Europe Aero Service; at least twelve of the type were operated by the airline until 1980. This one here was acquired from Air Canada early in 1972 and flew until the end of the 1975-season. The turboprop airliner was parted out at Perpignan, the homebase of EAS, after 1975.

Originally CF-TKE. Leased to Merpati Nusantara Airlines March to December 1972 as PK-MVE. Registered to Air Holdings January 1973 as G-BAMX and cancelled July 1974 as PWFU. Derelict as seen here and subsequently broken up.

Registered to Air Holdings as G-AXOY in October 1969, this Vanguard was originally Air Canada's CF-TKU. In May 1970 it became Air Viking's first aircraft, registered TF-AVA. They later operated a CV-880 and Boeing 720s, but the Vanguard was returned in January 1971, going back to Iceland with Thor Cargo as TF-JEJ. Returned in October 1971 and was taken up by Invicta international in February 1972. To Europe Air Service in 1975, stored and eventually scrapped at Perpignan in 1983

Photographer not known. Note that the company livery is incomplete, as no roof titles or "EAS" nose flash are carried. The aircraft had previously been operated by Invicta as G-AYFN and originally by Air Canada as CF-TKB. Both EAS and Invicta used an adaptation of the Air Canada livery, retaining the latter's red cheatline and fin.

Photographer: Albert Storti.

Photographer: Not known.

Photographer: Alberto Storti.

Delivered to Trans-Canada Airlines in 1961, CF-TKT was sold to Europe Aero Service in 1972 as the last of the Vanguard fleet was withdrawn. Retired by EAS in 1977, the aircraft was broken up at Perpignan, France in 1980.

Photographer: Georgio Salerno.

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Photographer: Bernard Crocoll.

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