Location: -/EBGB

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this vintage 1943 build Piper (ex USAAF) came in the Belgian register on October 10 1946 for a private user (R. Aveniere) basing it at Spa airfield. Later it went to another private user (E. Emants-Pool), same airfield. After been with another private owner (M. Schepens) basing it at Antwerp airport, it migrated on December 19 1947 to Section Sportive et de Tourisme Aérien (S.S.T.A.), based at Grimbergen airfield which was formed one year earlier on September 11. It became on April 17 1954 a non-profit association changing in 1985 its name to Sabena Aéro Club. Here it's seen alongside sistership "OO-SOC" in this late sixties shot at its home base Grimbergen airfield in the first (metal) livery without titles.

Location: -/EBGB

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: second livery, also without titles.

Location: -/EBKH

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: sporting the full livery of the Sabena Aéro Club after it changed its name into it.

Location: -/EBGB

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: seen in an updated outfit. After almost 53 years of operatios, on May 15 2000, its life tragically came to an end shortly after take-off at its home base when a seat belt blocked the stick resulting in a stall with the two occupants seriously injured during the crash. After been stored for a while in a hangar at Brussels Airport, the wreckage residents since May 14 2005 with a Dutch private owner (A. Van Werckhoven) at Oosterhout (the Netherlands) with the initial purpose to restorate it. On April 18 2016 it was officially cancelled from the register.