Years ago, I was asked to write a reference for a colleague. I don't know whether my reference (positive) carried any weight, but he wasn't accepted. At that time I was flying for Loganair in Scotland. During the Antarctic winter I gather the aircraft came north for maintenance, and then were leased out . I flew VP-FAW, a bright red Falkland Islands registered aircraft. Funnily enough, some 36 years later, at Duxford, I came across VP-FAZ, which was obviously going somewhere.