Taken from my hotel whilst landing at Moi Airbase.

Ex USAAF 43-49162, RAF KJ985, G-AGMZ (BOAC) and AP-AAA. Registered to Aden Airways as VR-AAE 1st February 1950, Leased to Jordan Airways in 1955 as JY-ABW, the aircraft later operated with various oil companies in North Africa as N9820F and N482F and ended her days being used as a target by the Libyan Army.

Ex DJ168 and G-AKEW. Exported to Kenya in October 1949 and cancelled as sold in South Africa as ZS-DHN in June 1953. Later became VP-YKT and crashed at N'dola Zambia in 1954.

Seen at what was then Nairobi's Eastleigh Airport. Airwork's Vikings flew numerous passenger and government charters to points in Africa as well as the Middle and Far East in the late 1940s and early 1950s. From 1952 a scheduled service was established from Blackbushe to Nairobi routing via Malta, Benghazi, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, Juba and Entebee a 3 day journey at a cost of £98! Formerly EI-ADI with Aer Lingus, the aircraft was allocated WZ356 for trooping flights whilst with Airwork and sold by them to Air Safaris in April 1960. WFU and broken up at Hurn in 1962.

Sold in the US as N5595N in 1979.

Delivered in 1964, KAF 103's fate is not known.

Sold in the US as N5595K in 1980

Donated by the RAF

Destroyed by a time bomb at Khormaksar, Aden (Yemen) on May 29, 1965.