Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this second hand Beech Baron was registered on April 22 1976 to Tapijten Herek pvba based at Wevelgem airport. On March 2 1977 it migrated to a private user (De Bery), also based at Wevelgem airport, here seen such visiting Antwerp airport in a livery inhereted from its previous operator wth still the "H" logo in the tail. It was repainted during 1984 and on February 24 1986 it went to Belgian Printing Services based at Antwerp airport. Four months later on June 9 it moved on to Hawa Air, also based at Antwerp airport. Due to a financial dispute of OO-FKY, it was impounded at Antwerp airport on August 23 1986, cancelled from the register four days later and re-entered it a week later on October 8 for Clingendael Waldorf Hotel, initially based at Antwerp airport. It's CofA did expire on September 12 1986 and remained stored at Antwerp airport making over there a local test flight on October 9 1987 whereby afterwards it flew to its new home base Wevelgem airport. In 1989 it was seen over there with a logo in the tail of Sky-Service and after a period of storage it was in early 1993 sold to England but remained in the Belgian register while in storage at Shoreham (U.K.). On October 29 1998 it was cancelled from the register migrating to the States as "N2046Q" for Satcom Distribution Inc, however it remained operational from the U.K. till being cancelled from the American register on April 11 2013 where the trace for this airframe ends.