Unusual duets (bis)!

April 4 1986

Except of the Mauritanian Air Force samples, whose were performing

maintenance check by Transair, the Short SC-7 Skyvan was quiet a rare

visitor here and more in such livery! Pink Aviation's OE-FDL, based at Hohenems

airfield adorned several flashy liveries and was mostly used for paradropping duty. It

was lost in an accident just after take-off from its homebase in June 1995.

In the background, one of a pair of CASA 212 Aviocar operated by Geneva based

Transair, EL-AJF (ex HB-LNG) after returning from lease to Air Liberia. Both

Aviocars were later sold to Angola.

December 7. 1987

U.S.Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) used a large number

of Lockheed C-141B Starlifter, the stretched model of the original C-141A.

They were replaced from the mid-nineties by the Mc Donnell Douglas (now Boeing)

C-17 Globemaster III. On the right, 1944 built's Douglas DC-3C N64784 was based

in Switzerland for a few years from 1986 and is still privately owned in California today.