Here’s A Rare One!!!

Every once in a while you find a real gem- Liberian Air Reconnaissance Unit Cessna 180s!

GHANA AIR FORCE ; an ‘old’ KP-thread ; http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?66792-Ghana-Air-Force

still searching for a good view of their Caribou ! ;http://crimso.msk.ru/Images6/AI/AI61-12/21-1.jpg

friendly, Etienne

Here you are!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sierra-Leone–/Mil-Mi-24V/1494713/L/

Was this their last operational mil aircraft ??

till now I couldn’t find more recent pics… do I have to consider -also- the SLAF as an HISTORIC one ???

friendly, Etienne

A couple more from Sierra Leone: a Puma, and a really strange one- a Partenavia AP-68TP

…………………………………………………………………………….the roundel was so ;[ATTACH=CONFIG]220013[/ATTACH]

friendly, Etienne

Other pictures of former Libyan roundels here (Alouette, C-130, Mirage)

http://far-maroc.forumpro.fr/t450p300-armee-libyenne-libyan-armed-forces[/QUOTE]

Two versions of the current Libyan roundel.

with thanks, Gerard and Archangelski, for your Nicaraguan replies,

friendly, Etienne

Etienne, note the roundel on the fuselage of the Nicaraguan T-6. They did use a blue-yellow-red roundel on the fuselage (see the P-51 profile), but the colors on the T-6 are reversed. Could this be an unusual variant, or just an effect of the black/white photo? Not sure, but looks like triangle roundels on the underside of the wing. I will check with some contacts about this one. It looks very odd to me. Thanks for posting it!

Nice, I am still looking for Surinam PC-7’s with Surinam Air Force roundels and serials. If they were ever painted on.
I have seen them only with Swiss ferry registrations.

greetings,
Hendrik

Funny you should mention that. If you examine the image, you can see a white disk on the fuselage; I presume that is where the Suriname roundel was to be placed. Notice also the black rectangular marking on the fin. I surmise that this is where the Suriname registration number would be placed. Chris Thornberg’s World Air Forces site lists three PC-7s operated by Suriname, numbers SAF-111, SAF-112, and SAF-113. It also notes that SAF-111’s Swiss ferry registration was HB-HMN, and SAF-112’s was HB-HMQ. So it looks like the aircraft in your photo was to be SAF-111, Hendrik. Remove the Swiss ferry registrations and the Swiss insignia, add the Suriname roundels and registration numbers, and I think you’ll have it. Only thing is- what about the wing markings? I think the best way to determine that would be to look for other aircraft similarly marked with the Suriname roundel, and extrapolate to the PC-7. Will do some research and get back with everybody. Very, very interesting.

Well, there are relatively few images of aircraft from Suriname. However, I have ascertained that the registration numbers on their aircraft are replicated on the top left and bottom right wings, apparently without roundels. I assume there are roundels on the top right and lower left wings, too, but this is only conjecture.

Not sure if anybody knows why, but I haven’t seen any profiles posted on the Wings Palette site since April 22. Does anybody have any updates about that site?

Bad quality picture of Malawi Do27 :

It’s a Do-28.