Rolled out at Downsview 16 Jun 1988 as C-GDIU. To Lesotho Airways as 7P-LAQ 12 Dec 1988. To Rossair 18 Sep 1997 as 7P-LAQ, re-registered ZS-OEF Nov 1997. To Fant Air as N6371X Jan 1998, then Trans Anguilla Airways Aug 1998, and Ricart Aviation Nov 1999. Leased to Moremi Air as A2-OTA Feb 2000, returned April 2001 and sold to Rossair as ZS-OEF Jun 2001. To Qwila Air as ZS-PNS Jun 2005. To N970AS Jul 2007 with Air Services, then Eriksson Aviation. To Erwin Aero as C-GIGZ Aug 2010, Air Kaibu as DQ-KVV Nov 2010. Current as of 2025. Seen here on delivery to Rossair. Photographer unknown

On lease to Lesotho Airways from Comair. ZS-FRM first flew in 1946 and was built uncompleted C-117 parts. She joined Det Danske Luftfartsselskab as OY-DCU and was named "Ulf Viking", a name she continued to carry when DDL became a constituent member of SAS. She went to Linjeflyg as SE-CFU and later Austrian as OE-LBN. Moving to South Africa, she joined Comair's fleet in 1968. She ended her life in Africa serving in Zimbabwe as Z-WRU and later Kenya as 5Y-BIL. In the late 1990s she was damaged in Nairobi and written off. Photographer unknown

Photographer unknown

Damaged beyond repair at Khartoum 11 June 2002 with Sudan Airways. Unknown photographer

Damaged beyond repair at Khartoum 11 June 2002 with Sudan Airways. Unknown photographer

Ex-HB-AAT, EC-DSP, HB-AAT, PH-FTH, 5U-BAH, PH-FTH, PH-EXM. Later ZS-EDY, ST-SSD, ZS-EDY. Written off 11-Jun-2002. Crashed during a training flight at Khartoum, Sudan

Delivery flight of Lesotho Airways Twin Otters 7P-LAA and 7P-LAB

A rainy day at the 1981 Paris Air Show and an illustration of why I rarely go to these type of shows. And the reason for that is, those great big information boards that get in the way of a good photograph!

Operated as 7P-LAJ between July 1985 and Nov 1997, then became ZS-EDY

Ex 7P-LAJ and sold as ST-SSD 30th Oct 1998

Arriving from Maseru, Lesotho.

Pictured just after arrival from Johannesburg.