Small Air Resorts titles were carried on the other side of the fuselage. The organisers of the 1992 World Airline Historical Society convention held at Irvine, Ca., chartered this aircraft to fly a party from John Wayne Airport to Mojave for an airport tour. Shortly before departure permission to land at MHV was refused due to insufficient fire cover for the number of passengers on board, necessitating landing at PMD from where the pax, of which the photographer was one, were bussed up to MHV for their tour.

Delivered to SAS as SE-BSY in 1958. To Desert Airways as A2-BSY then to National Air Charter as ZS-JVO in 1976. Reregistered as A2-ABH in 1978, To Cochise Airlines as N8042W in 1979 then to Air Resorts Airlines in 1982. Sold in 2000 and flown to Malaga, Spain. Donated to the museum there in 2006. Repainted into Kar-Air colours as OH-VKN in 2009.

Fake registration, is actually ex N8042W.

N8042W in disguise!

Since preserved as OH-VKN of Kar-Air at the museum on this airport.

Ex Air Resorts Intl but still in Cochise Airline cols. It had ferried from Wick (Scotland) to Malaga 17 Sep 2000. Neither the crew nor the owners could be contacted thereafter. In Mar 2006 the airport authority advertised that if it was not claimed within three months it would be seized. And Seized it was, at the end of May 2006. The airport authorities and donated to an aviation museum located next to the airport. It was repainted in Kar Air cols as OH-VKN in Oct 2009. This was in recognition that the actual Kar-Air OH-VKN was the 1st international flight into Malaga in 1959.

Though painted in Kar-Air livery, this aircraft never flew with that carrier. However it did fly for many years in Scandinavia, having been delivered to SAS as SE-BSY in February 1958. After being sold in the mid-1970s it went on to fly in Botswana and South Africa before being acquired by Cochise Airlines in 1979. It last official identity was N8042W.

Delivered new to SAS as SE-BSY in 02.58. Served Air Resorts from 11.82.

This former SAS machine is preserved at the small Málaga airport museum.