Location: MGL/EDLN

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this second hand AT-6 Texan, build in 1944 was on September 23 1965 registered to Cogea Nouvelle, established on January 14 1946 as Compagnie Générale d'Exploitation Aéronautique (shortened to Cogea) based at Keerbergen airfield but after a reorganistation on November 30 1954 its name changed to Cogea Nouvelle whereby its base switched to Ostend airport. On February 15 1966 it moved on to a private owner (J. Thiel), initially basing the airframe at Wevelgem airport, later to Monchengladbach airport. Here depicted such in the basic livery of Air France inhereted from the user before it went to Cogea Nouvelle and not changed since but also carrying "EST" titles below the first window referring to its owners which were actually based in Liechtenstein. In July 1970 it was sold to a private user M. Honcoop of the Netherlands and was cancelled from the register on September 15 1970. A year later it was seen on a scrapyard at Bergen op Zoom (the Netherlands).