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Hot afternoon so a little heat haze is visible through my Prinz Galaxy 300mm and Praktica Nova!

slide scan from the NK collection. - Air Trader A/B operated three Vanguards on freight charters, but the airline had to suspend operations after about one year again. The leased Vanguards returned to Air Holdings; a forth example of the type, acquired for spares only, remained derelict at Air Traders homebase at Stockholm-Bromma. - SE-FTI was later used by EAS and Merpati; it was noted at Jakarta in 1985, wfu as PK-MVA, and was subsquently scrapped.

slide scan from the NK collection. - F-BTOU was the first Vanguard for Europe Aero Service; at least twelve of the type were operated by the airline until 1980. This one here was acquired from Air Canada early in 1972 and flew until the end of the 1975-season. The turboprop airliner was parted out at Perpignan, the homebase of EAS, after 1975.

Originally CF-TKE. Leased to Merpati Nusantara Airlines March to December 1972 as PK-MVE. Registered to Air Holdings January 1973 as G-BAMX and cancelled July 1974 as PWFU. Derelict as seen here and subsequently broken up.

Photographer: Neil Aird.

Photographer: Neil Aird.

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

Built at Brooklands and making its first flight on Christmas Eve 1959, BEA's fourth Vanguard was delivered in January 1961 and broken up at Heathrow in May 1973

Registered to Air Holdings as G-AXOY in October 1969, this Vanguard was originally Air Canada's CF-TKU. In May 1970 it became Air Viking's first aircraft, registered TF-AVA. They later operated a CV-880 and Boeing 720s, but the Vanguard was returned in January 1971, going back to Iceland with Thor Cargo as TF-JEJ. Returned in October 1971 and was taken up by Invicta international in February 1972. To Europe Air Service in 1975, stored and eventually scrapped at Perpignan in 1983

First flown in November 1961 it was delivered to BEA at Heathrow as V.953 Vanguard "Superb" on 13th December 1961. During 1970/71 it was converted as a V.953C Merchantman and re-delivered to BEA Cargo, (renamed British Airways Cargo on 1st April 1974), on 8th March 1971. Sold to Air Bridge Carriers, (Hunting Air Cargo from 1992), in November 1979, it was stored at East Midlands Airport until entering service in 1981. When retired in September 1996 it was the last airworthy Merchantman, and made its last flight on 17th October 1996 when it was donated to the Brooklands Museum by Hunting PLC.

Photographer not known. Note that the company livery is incomplete, as no roof titles or "EAS" nose flash are carried. The aircraft had previously been operated by Invicta as G-AYFN and originally by Air Canada as CF-TKB. Both EAS and Invicta used an adaptation of the Air Canada livery, retaining the latter's red cheatline and fin.