Archivair  by Peter Vercruijsse
showing my photos and logs of aircraft since 1962

 

 
   
 

Visitors guide

Photo quality:

My photos are in the first place meant to record what was seen. That means that aircraft that are only visible in the background of another photo, and thus of far lower quality, will still be shown here individually. Also, when only a very far-away low quality picture was made, it will nevertheless be shown here too.

The first photos, in 1963, were made on 9x6 cm negatives, probably on some Agfa Click model. My father gave us one film of 8 negatives, to be shared with my brother! Later in 1963 I had a camera with 6x6 cm negatives. In 1970 a new camera was bought with a telelens that used 135mm film. From 1979 I started to use slides too, and in 2004 I switched to digital photography.

Registration:

Within the logs, the registrations are grouped together in two blocks, civil and military.

No Reg: means that the aircraft does not have a registration or serial.

Location:

When a location is not at an airfield, heliport, or water aerodrome, the location is preceded by:

  Off-Airport when the aircraft is on the ground.
  Over when the aircraft is flying over.

Date:

When more than one location is visited on a day, the date will be followed by A, B, C, etc

Type:

The listed manufacturer name is always the original manufacturer.
When the manufacturer name changes to a new name, that name is between brackets, e.g. “Beech (Raytheon)”.
And also the name of a manufacturer that produces the aircraft under licence is between brackets, e.g. “General Dynamics (Fokker)”.

Homebuilt aircraft will have (Amateur) following the designer company. If the name of the builder is known, it will be listed in the Remarks. 

C/n:

-?- means that the c/n is not known. Please inform us when you know it.

When a military aircraft has been manufactured while using the military serial number to identify it, that military serial number will be listed between quotation marks as the c/n.