Fifty shades of grey - that's about as colourful as it gets in modern military aviation.

Coming out of maintenance at Lufthansa Technik's Malta facility. The aircraft departed Munich on a Shanghai service that evening.

A Spartan transport of Escadrila 902 at Bucharest - Otopeni.

The MIACO facility on the old Safi side of Malta's airport handled a large number of ex-military Caribous over the years, this example still carrying Tanzanian AF markings and having been delivered by DHC as JW9003 in 9.66. Although scrapped in 11.86, the remains of the airframe were used in a PT-6 turboprop mock-up and the fuselage was still extant in the early 90s

Arriving for the Malta airshow, with one of the island's iconic churches in the background.

Former Libyan police helicopter.

Of No 1 Sqn from RAF Lossiemouth, taxiing out on departure day after the Malta airshow.

The Wildcat looks like a rather crude development of the Lynx. Interestingly, the main role of the naval HMA.2 is anti-surface, not anti-submarine.

The Turboméca Artouste was the world's very first turboshaft engine, turning the Alouette series into a whirling success.

Seen outside at Medavia, this DHC-7 had not flown in many years. Sorry for the peek into the ladies' toilet.

Blasting off Rwy 31.