XA-LIW Fairchild
F-27
XA-LIW
(c/nn 26)
This F-27 was originally built for AVENSA as YV-C-EVQ in
1958. It went to West Coast
Airlines in 1963 as N2709,
and then had a series of US civil registrations until 1975 when it
was sold to the
Mexican Navy. Civilianized again in 1978, it was with the Mexican
non-
scheduled
airline Aerolineas TransMexico when I saw it at El Paso Airport in July
1981.
Note contrails overflying ELP!
Later reregistered XA-MOR, it was withdrawn from
service in 1989.