Recently withdrawn from service, one of the 20 Transalls supplied to Turkey by Germany, ex 50+32. This was one of four upgraded for ISR/ELINT purposes, undergoing 'Gören-1' modifications with FLIR installation and otherwise referred to as the C-160T

Ex R Saudi AF 451, used for spares since at least 2019

One of six veteran C-130B's still operating with 222 Filo

Departing Erkilet AB, base of the Turkish AF's heavy transport assets, 221 Filo with the A400M (ex C-160D) and 222 Filo with the C-130B and E. Oddly carries serial in non-standard form including an extra '0'

Photographer: Dale Garrett. USAF serial number: 52-1576

One year after delivery to Air Canada in 1968, the airline provided this DC-8 as 6Y-JGC (and three DC-9s) to enable Air Jamaica begin service. Air Canada owned 40% of the new airline until it sold it's shares in 1980. Returning to Air Canada in 1973, the aircraft was withdrawn in 1983. Leased to Saudia Arabian Airlines for two months and then stored, it was sold to UAS Leasing as N24UA in 1986. Converted to a freighter, it was leased to VIASA Cargo, American International Airways and Arrow Air until stored at Greenville, MS in 1999 and later scrapped.

Former Royal Canadian Air Force North Star 17502 was struck off strength in 1966 and sold to Trans Florida Aviation. Registered CF-UXA to Canadian subsidiary Cavalier Aviation, the aircraft was one of two North Stars (CF-UXB the other) operated by Air Caicos on freight services from Florida to the Turks and Caicos Islands. Later with Air Turks, it flew the last North Star commercial flight when time ran out on the engines June 19, 1975 and the aircraft was scrapped in Sarasota, FL .

The Swedish Air Force had acquired this Merlin IV from Golden Air; it was prepared for its new military duties when I saw it in Norway with a dual registration. The aircraft was used in Sweden until 1993 and was sold thereafter; recently it was seen as C-GTTM in service in 2022, and in storage at Calgary in 2024; its final (cargo) operator was Carson Air.

First Flight April 11, 1989, C-FTCA was delivered to Canadian Airlines on lease two weeks later. Merged into Air Canada in 2001, the aircraft was converted to a freighter in 2022.

DND photo.

Whidbey Island NAS based VP-1 completed transition from the venerable P-3 Orion to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon in 2021. 168757 is pictured during a fuel stop at Green Bay, WI.

This 2019 Tecnam P2010 is part of Iowa based Vertical Vision Flight Academy's training fleet.

On display at Florida Air Museum. This experimental VTOL aircraft was one of two prototypes built to a USN proposal to launch fighters from the afterdeck of ships. The XFV-1 was powered by a 5,850 hp Allison YT40-A-6 turboprop driving a pair of 16 ft. contra-rotating propellers. The design featured a cruciform tail with wheels mounted on struts. Called the Salmon after chief engineering test pilot Herman "Fish" Salmon, single flying prototype BuNo 138657 never achieved VTOL due to insufficient power. Fitted with a spindly fixed undercarriage, the XFV-1 was flown horizontally and held in hover.