Puerto Rico International Airlines  de Havilland D.H.114 Heron 2  N13663    (c/n  14077)

                                 

                                    There were two Prinair Herons registered N13663.    The other was a fixed undercarriage
                                    Mk 1  formerly  G-ANLN, which had then been sold as BWIA's 6Y-JCZ before being
                                    acquired  by Prinair in 1968 for, it would appear, spares parts only*     .
                                    The functioning N13363, a Mk 2 seen  above in this Jose Alfonso collection photo
                                    (via William W. Sierra), was originally built new for West African Airways in 1955
                                    as VR-NAW.    Five years later it went briefly to Itavia as I-AOGO and shortly there-
                                    after repatriated back to the U.K. as G-AROS.  It had a couple of leases to Germany
                                    as D-CASA and Israel as 4X-ARJ before finally being sold to Prinair in March 1967
                                  . It was later converted to 'Prinair Heron' standard with 300 hp Continental IO-520 engines
                                    and re-registered N557PR.   As such it was still extant when Prinair collapsed in 1985 and
                                    was placed in storage at Opa Locka, FL  and subsequently broken up.       

                                   *  Now here's the thing:  The Mk I was purchased after the Mk II seen here but given, if my
                                   records are correct, the same N13663 registration.  FAA records only specify this rego as
                                   a Mk 2  so there may have some sort of error in Prinair's record keeping.     In the event,
                                   the Mk 1 was not used in the service fleet.