Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this factory fresh Cessna was on July 23 1957 registered to Sabena and arrived four days earlier at Brussels Airport. It was used by Ecole d’Aviation Civile / Burgerlijke Luchtvaartschool (founded in 1952) and based at Grimbergen airfield providing training for future Sabena pilots. Here seen such on a training flight to Antwerp airport in their first livery without titles. After been in maintenance at Brussels Airport it was airtested there on January 17 1967 with fatal consequences killing both occupants on board. A crash report (in French) can be found here and it was cancelled from the register later that year on March 2.