A bit of thread creep here, but my first commercial type after leaving OATS with <200 hrs was the HS748 which certainly wasn’t called the budgie then in 1965! I didn’t fly the 748 much, just over 300 hrs in the next 2 years interspersed with the Viscount but one of the aircraft was G-ATAM one of the first series 2s. A dozen or more owners later it is still reported in service with Wasaya Airways as a freighter registered C-GMAA. It is therefore celebrating it’s 50th birthday this year. As a type, it has hugely outlived the Herald and rivals the longevity of the F27. I retired 4 years ago.