XC-FEE    Britten-Norman BN-2B-20 Islander                              (c/n 2022)

                             

                                   There are several images of this Islander on the Internet, but my shot precedes all of them
                                   inasmuch as it was taken at El Paso Municipal Airport (as it was then) in 1981 just after
                                   the aircraft had been acquired by the Chihuahua State Government.   It has a particularly
                                   ugly livery scheme which, mercifully, was changed later on. 
                                   XC-FEE flew faithfully for thirty odd years before force landing near Zacatecas, Mexico,
                                   on 22 August 2013 when the starboard engine failed. . The aircraft was not able to maintain
                                   altitude and the pilot performed a forced landing which virtually wrote it off.          The two
                                   occupants were injured.