Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this second hand Cessna was on October 17 1966 registered to Sotramat which stood for Société de Transports Aériens Maritimes et Terrestres being established on May 7 1958 and based at Brussels Airport / Antwerp airport with at first the core business being importer of propeller driven Cessna airframes for the Benelux. Later it operated its own aircraft also for flying school activities as the depicted one carrying a light brown livery with some titles (SFS of Sotramat Flying School in the tail and furthermore see upper left inset).

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: in 1970 it went to Aeroclub Herentals based at Beerse airfield, here seen such in a livery without titles except for an ad for glasses (see also upper left inset). Its life came to an end on October 9 1972 when it ran out of fuel, crash landed and went upside down after hitting a stone on Neeltje Janszandplaat Oosterschelde (the Netherlands) luckely without casualties of the two on board. Half a year later on June 2 it was cancelled from the register.