slide scan from the NK collection. - This ex-United Caravelle was the only one of the type that BIAS ever operated, for one year only between 1971 and 1972. After follow-on services with Air Touring and Catair, the Caravelle was withdrawn at Le Bourget in 1975.

Converted by Sabena to swing-tail configuration for Air Zaire circa1967 and later, while with Kinair Cargo as 9Q-CBK, it was destroyed in a crash near Kinshasa. No details can be found, but maybe the tail became unlatched?

slide scan from the NK collection. - BIAS suspended operations a few months after this slide had been taken, and OO-AMI was transferred to Pomair together with its sister ship (OO-CMB). Later, it flew for Martinair and Capitol Airways and was finally withdrawn from use as N904CL at Fort Lauderdale FL in the early eighties.

slide scan from the NK collection. - One of the very few DC-6s, which are still alive at the time of upload! The aircraft still flies in Alaska with Everts Air Fuel; it was in service with BIAS more than fifty years ago, from 1969 till 1971.

First flown in October 1967, this Friendship went to Denmark as OY-DNF and intended for Faroe Airways. Instead she went to Danish Aero Lease flying with, among others, Linair of Libya. Then she was with BIAS before being leased and later sold to Air Alpes as F-BYAB. She ended her active service life with WDL Aviation as D-AELJ.

Originally built for US based Western Airlines in 1953, this DC-6B was with Lloyd International as G-ASTW from June '64 to April '66 and ended its days in Niger. Smartly painted here with dark red (maroon) stripe.