Registered G-ATEI to Channel Airways ('CA') 26 May 1965. Upon delivery, it was immediately leased to LIAT as VP-LIN. Restored as G-ATEI 17 May 1966. Painted in Transair livery at Southend and air-tested there 23 May 1969, still as G-ATEI. Left later that day for Woodford as CF-TAX and started on its delivery flight from there to Canada 24 May 1969, returning to Southend 21 Nov.1969 after a 6-month lease. Restored to CA but sold to Philippine Airlines 28 August 1970 as PI-C1029, later reregistered RP-C1029. DBR 10 May 1975 when the aircraft forced-landed in a rice field in a suburb of Manila.

This HS-748 was flown by Channel Airways for just under 2 years after delivery in February 1966. Sold to Midwest Aviation as CF-MAL in December 1967, it's pictured returning from a lease to Aviateca Guatamala as TG-MAL. It was already sold to Air Ceylon and departed on delivery via Gatwick on April 29, 1975. Registered 4R-ACR with the airline, it was subsequently sold to the Air Force as CR-831 in September 1979. Stored by March 1994, the aircraft has been displayed at the Sri Lanka Air Force Museum at Ratmalana from November 2009.

Back from the assignment with Philippine Airlines, this HS-748 was waiting for further duties during the storage at Exeter. In fact, two more airlines used the aircraft - SATA from the Acores and Air Senegal. Thereafter, it was stored at Southend and broken up in 1991.

This was the first 748 on the Canadian register having been bought from Channel Airways (G-ATEJ) and delivered in December 1967. In the 1980s, when the used prices came down, Canadian operators went for them in a big way as they were ideal for northern service, being ruggedly built and certified for gravel runways. Nothing could touch them until the ATR became affordable, so operators flew them unpressurized to compensate for locally designed large freight doors and to stretch out the airframe fatigue life. The thing that finally did them in was the Dart engines.

Outside Channel Airways maintenance hangar.

Ex TG-MAL, later became 4R-ACR and finally CR831.

Ex TG-MAL, later became 4R-ACR and finally CR831.

Delivered to Channel Airways as G-ATEK in 1966. To LIAT as VP-LIV in 1968. Reregistered as V2-LIV in 1982. To Philippine Airlines as RP-C1041 in 1985. To LAR as CS-TAV then to Air Senegal as 6V-AFX in 1988. Withdrawn from use at Southend in 1989 and scrapped in 1991.

No stranger to Southend as she began her career there as G-ATEK with Channel Airways in 3.66. Later VP-LIV and V2-LIV (LIAT), RP-C1041 (PAL), G-ATEK, CS-TAV (LAR) and 6V-AFX. Technically by the time of this shot, the original British registration was once again allocated but in was never re-applied, the aircraft being broken up at SEN in 7.91 after storage