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.

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.

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

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