Still wearing the livery of its last lessor Guyana Airways but with titles removed.

Leased from Zantop. Taxying to the cargo apron, early on a misty morning.

Photographer: Clive Head. K64 slide scan. Built 1959 as N5001K for National. Retired 1968, Trans Arctic Air 1969 after freighter conversion. Pacific Western CF-PWG 1972, MCA Leasing N415MA April 1976, Guyana Airways 8R-GEW October 1976, returned 1977. Hawaiian Air Cargo 1978, reregistered N341HA 1979. Zantop 1980, multiple leases to Channel Express from 1991 until 1997. Withdrawn Willow Run 1997, scrapped 2006.

N341HA was seen in storage at Detroit / Willow Run in 1997, still with a green cheatline after its lease to Channel Express between 1991 and 1994. The Electra was broken up in 2007.

from my collection, photographer unknown, delivered to National Airlines Apr 1959 as N5001K, operated for different US companies, before being sold to Pacific Western as CF-PWG in Apr 1972, to MCA Leasing as N415MA Apr 1976 and leased to Guyana Airways in Oct that year until Sep 1977. To Hawaiian Airlines Mar 1978 and reregd. N341HA, to Zantop International Sep 1980, lsd to Channel Express between Sep 1991 and May 1992, again from Aug 1992 til Jan 1994 and from Jul 1995 until Apr 1997, wfu YIP and b/u there ten years later

Ex-N415MA, 8R-GEW, N341HA, N415MA, CF-PWG, N5001K.

Ex Hawaiian Airlines. In the 90s it was leased several times to Channel Express Air Services (UK).

Still in Zantop colours on a very murky day at Maastricht. The red was changed to green at some point later.

Ex-N415MA

This Electra would be withdrwan from use the following month and ferried to Willow Run for storage.

While I most enjoyed being along the runways at MIA, time spent mining the north side parking areas produced gems like this Electra.