The dismantled remains of this aircraft, which can be seen on Google Earth, are the subject of a very long-term restoration by the Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust at the old Speke Terminal end of Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Delivered to Trans Canada AL as CF-TKB in December 1960 and transferred to Air Canada when TCAL was renamed on 1st June 1964. It was re-registered as G-AYFN to Air Holdings in June 1970, leased to Thor Air Cargo as TF-YES in March 1971 but restored as G-AYFN in October 1971. Sold to Air Trader Sweden AB in December 1971 it returned as G-AYFN in March 1973. Sold to Invicta International in October 1973 it served until September 1975 when bought by Europe Aero Service as F-BXAJ. It flew its last service on July 27, 1979 and withdrawn from use at Perpignan and was last noted in one piece in 1985.

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Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Ex CF-TKN and bought by Air Holdings in December 1969, after use by Invicta Airlines to EAS at Perpignan for spares in October 1975, scrapped mid-1980s

Photographer: Albert Storti.

Photographer: Alberto Storti.

Photographer: Ulrich de Bruyn.

Photographer: Bernard Crocoll.

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slide taken by Norbert Kröpfl. - Invicta operated seven Vanguards, all ex Air Canada. One was lost in an accident, five were sold on to Europe Aero Service in 1975, and this one here was retired at Southend in 1973 and broken up three years later.

slide scan from the NK collection. - G-AXOY was one of seven Vanguards of Invicta and stayed with the airline from 1972 until 1975. Sold to EAS / Europe Aero Service as F-BXOH, it was transferred to Perpignan in November 1975; however, it was used for spares only at Perpignan and did not fly again.

slide scan from the NK collection. - Invicta operated a total of seven Vanguards, all ex Air Canada, from 1970 to 1975. G-AXOP was unfortunately lost on approach to Basle/Mulhouse on April 1973, when the cockpit crew became disorientated in adverse weather conditions and the aircraft crashed into mountains.

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