Photographer unknown

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 It flew its last service on July 27, 1979 and withdrawn from use at Perpignan and was last noted in one piece in 1985.

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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