The second Electra registered as N5539. Delivered to Pacific Southwest Airlines as L-188C N171PS in 1959. To Holiday Airlines as N971HA in 1968. Back to Pacific Southwest Airlines as N171PS in 1975 then to Evergreen International Airlines as N5539 in 1979 and converted to an L-188C(F) freighter. To Channel Express in 1990 and reregistered as G-CEXS in 1992. To Air Spray as C-GZCF in 2003 and converted to a firebomber. Damaged in a wheels up landing at Red Deer, AB in 2019. Still there in 2024.

This long-lived Electra was delivered to PSA in 1959 as N171PS. It was acquired by Evergreen International in 1979 and converted to a freighter, also being re-registered as N5539 (the second Electra to bear this registration, the first being msn 1080). In 1990 it moved to the UK for operation by Channel Express and in 1992 became G-CEXS. In 2003 it was sold to Air Spray in Canada, becoming C-GZCF, with a large underbelly tank for fire-fighting. On 22 June 2019, C-GZCF was substantially damaged in a belly landing at Red Deer, Alberta, when the landing-gear could not be lowered.

Photographer: Clive Head. K64 slide scan. Built 1959 as N171PS for PSA. Leased to Holiday as N971HA 1968, returned to PSA as N171PS 1975. Evergreen N5539 1979 after freighter conversion. Channel Express 1990, reregistered G-CEXS 1992. Air Spray C-GZCF 2003 for tanker conversion.

Reregistered in Channel Express as G-CEXS.

The off-print on the rear fuselage shows the old registration N971HA, but at the time of the photo this was registered N5539.