Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this second hand Piper was on January 29 2001 registered to Infomar cvba but operated by Ben-Air Flight Academy (BAFA), a flight school established on May 19 1980 as Ben-Air changing to its current name on October 5 1999 and based at Antwerp airport. The airframe arrived on January 11 2001 as "N4137X" of the previous American user and became operational of few months later on March 28 with its Belgian regi, here seen at its home base in a livery inhereted from its previous operator without titles and remained such when with BAFA. On January 6 2006 it changed hands to Ben-Air Flight Academy (BAFA) itself. On June 17 2009 it was ferried to Evora airport (Portugal) for a lease to Aeronautical Academy of Évora. Sadly it went during a flight on September 15 2009 out of control and broke up inflight near Sete village (Portugal) killing all three on board. The airframe was cancelled from the register on October 12 2011.