Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this almost factory fresh Cessna (build by Reims) was registered on June 27 1969 to Publi-Air based at Grimbergen airfield, here seen in a livery without titles, except for a number in the tail for an air ralley. On July 19 1975 it encountered engine troubles just after takeoff at Grimbergen airfield and was damaged on an emergency landing in a field at Wolvertem (Belgium) without casualties of the four people on board and the airframe was also repairable. On August 28 1976 the ' wreckage ' was seen at Moorsele airfield. In 1977 it was for possible restoration sold to a private user (M. Rutjens), although a paper found in the National Archives shows it was already in 1975 belonging to this person and leased to Publi-Air. However later in 1977, on May 12, it was cancelled from the register. In the early eighties it ended up for a while in the Curiosa Museum at Heule (Belgium) as being on display there, but when the owner of this museum passed away on November 6 2001 it was in 2003 seen with a scrap dealer at Breda (the Netherlands) where it was shortly afterwards broken up.