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VP-FAV final resting place - the Stanley Airfield dump.

Photo: Stewart Robertson © September 1988

VP-FAV in a sorry state at Stanley.

Photo: Graham Court © October 1985

VP-FAV victim damaged by shrapnel at Stanley.

Photo: Simon Van Tromp © July 1982 - scanned by Robin Harritt

Photo: Simon Van Tromp © July 1982

Photo: Mike Costello © 14 June 1982

Aerial view of VP-FAV (intact) and VP-FAT (destroyed)

Tinted colour by Neil - no guarantee if accurate! Image in 78 dpi - computer scan done in 1986!

Photocopy: Unknown source - 1982 - Aird Archives

VP-FAV at main Port Stanley base.

Dropping off supplies and passengers at Lively Island.

Departing Lively, Phillimore Island in distance.

A tethered VP-FAV

VP-FAV at Uplands freshly registered.

Photo: Bill Sawchuk © 23 October 1976

57-6145 based at Fliegerhorst, Germany.

57-6145 visits Orange, in southern France.

Photo: Unknown photographer © April 1964 - Robin A. Walker Colection

57-6145 at La Rochelle, France.

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57-6145 • C-GUHH

VP-FAV

• 57-6145 US Army # 1805. L-20 No. 806. Command A-14. Delivered 10-Jun-1958. Built as L-20A and re-designated U-6A in 1962

• 76145 noted 12-May-1960 @ Gatwick, UK.

• 57-6145 Was based at Dunsfold, Surrey, UK, during Dec-1964 for use as a hack by the US section of the Tripartite Kestrel Evaluation Squadron. The Kestrel was the development aircraft for the Harrier jump jet.

• 57-6145 For sale Coleman Barracks, Mannhein-Sandhofen, Germany. Feb-1973.

• tt 4,092.0

• No regn. Purchased by B & M Aviation Ltd.. Lachute, QC. 01-Apr-1973.

• C-GUHH B & M Aviation Ltd., Lachute, QC. Aug-1976 to Oct-1976.

• VP-FAV Falkland Islands Government Air Service, (FIGAS), Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Regd Oct-1976.

• Delivered from Canada on floats.

Incident: Damaged at Port Stanley. 11/12-Jun-1982. Damaged by small arms fire and shrapnel, Port Stanley Falkland Islands although serviceable, but subsequently further damaged beyond repair in a storm at Port Stanley on 28-Jul-1982. Moved to a quarry dump in 1989. At around April 1993 it was still noted at the Mary Hill rubbish dump near Stanley Airport.

• Destroyed •

Final sad disposition.