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Handley Page HP-137 Jetstream N12225

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• Imre Quastler said:

  This Zia airliner has apparently just been turned back over to its owners, after extensive work in Santa Barbara. The Zia crew is running up the engines shortly before leaving for New Mexico. Comment by the photographer, I. E. Quastler

• BAMS098 said:

  Zia had just purchased the plane. Our Chief Inspector (Andy) found corrosion on the primary flight control cables so we worked our tails off to replace all of them and make delivery to ZIA on time. Note the similarity with Apollo Airways paint scheme. I guess ZIA liked Apollos design and colors. Aero Spacelines International, ASI, had painted Apollo's planes so they knew the paint colors to copy. That is ASI's hangar in the picture. Same place they built the Super Guppy,s