This has to be the first of the long fuselage Merlin/Metro II family and here visiting Perimeter Aviation while on a sales tour. Early Merlin IV are notable in that they have round windows. Later they had the 'curvy rectangular' ones as per the Metro II for production commonality. The registration N5291M was later used on c/n TC-202E and maybe it is this same airframe as the 'E' indicates a switch from Merlin to Metro on the line. Since TC-001E would have looked odd plus it would need major work to change the windows, maybe they went to the later number '202'. Just a theory.

Operated by Soundair Aug 81 to circa 1984. Logo is on the engines

Ex D-IBMH, registered 4th Jan 1977. Delivered a few weeks before this picture was taken and it's being readied for lease to Sabena. In basic Sabena livery but no titles as yet, and operated by European Air Transport. This is the first use of registration OO-JPN on a Merlin IV (Jan 1977 to Sep 1981). From 1985 until 1993 it was also used on Merlin IV c/n AT-038.

Ex N55CE. Operated by Elite Air Services based at Las Vegas, Nevada.

Operating as Danair, it was severely damaged by a fire in the cockpit just after landing at Copenhagen 12 Nov 82. The 13 passengers and 2 crew escaped.

This is the first use of registration OO-JPN on a Merlin IV (Jan 1977 to Sep 1981). From 1985 until 1993 it was carried by Merlin IV c/n AT-038.

Built in 1970 as D-IMBH for Battenfeld GmbH, with round windows as used on the early airframes. Bought by Provincial in 1993 and by this time it had been converted to a windowless freighter. Sold to Columbia in 2004 and last know of withdrawn at Bogota.

Operated by Soundair.

Parked without engines

With "Meteo France" and "Meteorological Aviation Center" titles.

35mm Slide scanned sith a Epson Perfection V700 Flatbed scanner.

VH-SWP was destroyed when it flew into terrain while approaching Tamworth, NSW, on March 9, 1994, while conducting a courier flight.

Ex VH-CFO. Returned to Australia as VH-SWP in 1986.