Parked beside the TAA engineering building the aircraft is about commence engine runs prior to the evening freight service.

From BEA's second batch of these rather attractive freighters.

Shot on the old International ramp.

Another oldie comes into Adelaide. So nice to see.

The "It isn't always sunny, but I won't see this again" syndrome strikes again.

VH-IPA was scrapped at Melbourne-Essendon in December 1990.

VH-IPB flew with IPEC from September 1978 to May 1990, when it was leased to Safe-Air in New Zealand as ZK-SAL. It returned to Australia and VH-IPB in November 1990 but was scrapped the following month.

VH-IPA was scrapped at Melbourne-Essendon in December 1990.

Served BEA Cargo from new in April 1965 until sale to Transair as CF-TAX in April 1970. An Air Canada DC-8 and Pan Am Boeing 707 are in the background.

On display at an air show. Damaged in an accident in 1990.

Just over the road from the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, this immaculately displayed machine is preserved by The Argosy Trust outside a cafe, recalling the period when it often operated from the airfield. Originally G-ASXN with BEA, it later went to Transair in Canada and then to NZ in 1974. A careful study of Google Earth back home had established that I'd get the best sun angle in the morning, but it was cloudy then. Note plastic owl bird scarer on the wing!