G-AYLD_1973-10_MUC_1200_NK

 

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

 

München-Riem

October 1973

 

G-AYLD

Vickers 952F Vanguard

730

Silver City Airways (basic Air Trader colours)

 

 

Information from flickr - thanks to Bob Garrard:

Vickers 952F Vanguard/Merchantman (cn 730) Seen in Air Trader livery, it was delivered new as Vanguard CF-TKG to Trans Canada Air Lines - TCA in January, 1961. Air Holdings cvt to freighter in July, 1971 and then was SE-FTH with Air Trader, Silver City leased from in 1973 as G-AYLD, then F-BUFT with Europe Aero Service and TR-LBA with Air Gabon. As F-GEJE with Inter Cargo Service it crashed on 6 February, 1989, when an aileron cable failed on take off from Marseille-Marignane Airport, France.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-AYLD/695237

 

This airframe as CF-TKG with Air Canada at YUL in May 1968:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/0/9/2419901.jpg

 

This airframe as G-AYLD with Air Holdings in August 1971:

www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/7229347052/

 

This airframe as SE-FTH with Air Trader at BSL in March 1972:

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/bigpicture/picture_id/1689

 

This airframe as F-BUFT with EAS Cargo at LIN in February 1978:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/9/9/2756993.jpg

 

This airframe as TR-LBA with Air Gabon at LBV in June 1983:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1687078

 

This airframe as F-GEJE with Inter Cargo Service at ORY in June 1987:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/8539949002/

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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