Rich Hulina published this remarkable photo on his Bush Flying Captured Facebookpage, adding: "A big thanks to the boys at Northwest Flying, Jack Pope, Shane Pope in C-FHZA and Brett Gauthier in C-FNKL.
Incredible morning!" (04Aug2013).

www.richhulina.com

I visited and flew them last year, see MY REPORT

The history of N434TA, a rare and unique vintage propliner, is described on a page dedicated to a visit to Fairbanks by me almost 20 years ago: Douglas DC-6 while I came across it again, stored at Fairbanks among the weeds, in 2012.

UPDATE (FEB.2017): After N434TA had arrived in Hay River in 2013, it was subsequently stored at Hay River for Buffalo Airways; see this Flickr link to a 28May 2016 photo.

John wrote me this: "My name is John Johnson and I am the former owner of the C-47 N5831B, when it was located in Tucson, AZ.
My wife Susie and I purchased it from Reggie Hopwood in West Memphis,AR and flew it to Arizona.
Susie and I purchased N5831B because we realized how important it was to save this real battle tested warbird!  

I started the restoration of the airplane by locating and adding the astrodome, replaced the damaged vertical stabilizer, replacing all the plexiglass in the rear cargo area, stripping the 'civilian' paint job, replacing 90% of all the external screws, nuts and bolts...
We also replaced the interior flooring and cleaned the interior belly area, which was a huge job and consumed over 100 gallons of water and degreaser! 

This Spantax Beech 18 EC-ASJ was seen at Las Palmas on 10Dec1970.
The question is: is this the same Beech 18 that is parked these days at Malaga? That one has a different looking nose and different radar equipment, but carries tailnumber EC-ASJ plus Spantax S.A. titles. Compare..
REPLIES:
by John Bennett on the Beech 18 Yahoo forum:
"These are two different aircraft, the original EC-ASJ is c/n AF-752 and is currently with the Fundacion Infante de Orleans at Cuatro Vientos in Spain.
The ‘EC-ASJ’ preserved at Malaga is c/n BA-6 in false marks, which was originally N3600B, CN-MAQ (Royal Moroccan Air Force), PH-LPS, N9886A."

By Aad van der Voet on the Classic-Propliners Yahoo forum:
"The 'EC-ASJ' on display at Malaga is Beech E18S N9886A c/n BA-6, painted as EC-ASJ.
www.airliners.net/
The real EC-ASJ, as seen in 1970, is Beech C-45H Expeditor c/n AF-752, currently based in airworthy condition in Spantax colours at Cuatro Vientos, with the Fundación Infante de Orleáns. It was first registered as EC-ASJ on 04 May 1962, initially with Trabajos Aéreos Insulares.
It has kept that registration ever since.
www.airliners.net/

The Stinson Reliant was a popular single-engine four to five seat high-wing monoplane manufactured by the Stinson Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation of Wayne, Michigan.
1,327 Reliants of all types were made from 1933 to 1941, in different models, from SR-1 to SR-10.
The final commercial model, the Stinson Reliant SR-10, was introduced in 1938.
A militarized version was first flown in February 1942 and remained in production through several additional versions (all externally identical) until late 1943 for the US and British armed forces.
[Wikipedia]

Terry has compiled a nice photo report of that air show:

Henry added to this photo: "A Fairchild C-119 that was hauling some large vehicles from our base at Campbell Airstrip (Anchorage) to a remote location.
It had wing mounted auxiliary jet engines and an empty mount for a top mounted jet.
One of the pilots told me at the time that it was used for tests of the 'Snap and Grab'-system of retrieving objects from the ground or air.
Some of your C-119 people might know a little more. It was registered as N383S."

More on this aircraft (& demonstrator) on my Fairchild C-119 Info Page.

Boeing B-17, Tanker 44 in Alaska 1969. This aircraft had come from Hawaii after filming 'Tora Tora Tora'.

My first attempts to B-17 Tanker 44 failed. This website has numerous B-17 Aerial Firefighters www.air-and-space.com, but T44 is not among them.
Several B-17s on that website participated in the film 'Tora Tora Tora'.
The Tanker Id '44' has also been worn on a DC-6 and a P-2 Neptune (most recently).
Then Aad van der Voet managed to identify this T44: "The B-17 is N17W c/n 4896 which, as you already mention, was indeed used in the movies '1000 Plane Raid' and 'Tora, Tora, Tora' in 1968 and early 1969. It is now preserved by the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, Seattle."
And last April this B-17F NC17W (which is painted as USAF bomber 229782) was seen parked inside a brand new hangar at Boeing Field that is not owned by the Museum of Flight, but property of Clay Lacy. It was there together with the DC-2 NC13711 (c/n 1368) in the livery of TWA, The Lindbergh Line.
A 2017 photo of DC-2 NC13711 can be found on my Photos by Friends & Guests (50).

And another image of Alaska 1969: A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer of Avery Aviation.
Tanker identity is B22. Tried to clean the scan from dust as much as I could within acceptable time.
Christler Flying Service was also know, I believe, as Christler & Avery Aviation; a merger perhaps (date?). Hawkins & Powers Aviation took over Christler Fire Service in 1979.

This one cannot be N7974A, which was also flown by Avery Aviation, as that one crashed in Alaska on 22Jul1968 (ASN report).

Then googling for "Tanker B22" I stumbled on this website www.warbirdregistry.org which showed B22 to be N2870G:
History:
Delivered to US Coast Guard as 66304, 19??.
- Put up for dispossal at NAS Elizabeth City, NC, Aug. 1958.
Ace Smelting Inc, Phoenix, AZ, 1959.
- Registered as N2870G.
Avery Aviation, Greybull, WY, 1959-1969.
- Flew as tanker #B22.
Hawkins and Powers Aviation, Greybull, WY, July 1969-1980.
- Flown as tanker #B22 (later #121).
- Crashed on take-off, Ramona, CA, Aug. 27, 1980.
Used to rebuild N7682C/66261, Greybull, WY, 1981.
Major sections noted on dump, Greybull, WY, 1987-1992.
Tail section noted at Gillespie Field annex of the San Diego Air & Space museum on January 7, 2009.

Natasa Grahek sent me this welcome update in June 2013:

Natasa wrote:
"I found your website while looking for more information about this airplane, which I just visited in a place named Otok, near Metlika, Slovenia.
The plane has been placed there, as historic reminder of a partisans airport, called Piccadilly Hope, where planes landed during WWII."

More on what Natasa wrote me plus information on this preserved C-47 (albeit as yet unidentified construction number) on my Search For.. page.

The Alaska Aviation Museum has a thoroughly informative webpage on the Fairchild Pilgrim, including information on the restoration project:
www.alaskaairmuseum.org/flightline/n709y.php

I have visited this museum at Lake Hood, Alaska a few times, most recently in 2012, see HERE..

Bob wrote: "Greetings from Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona!
This is the last of the Packard C-54's being cut up and hauled off...
I am not sure of the details, but the CAF was getting a court order to have it removed from their property.
The last of the Gene Packard airplane parts and shop was auctioned off last year. Gene moved to Payson and retired.
His son, Ed Packard, died a couple of years ago so there was no one to carry on the business.
Gene and his company and crews were once a very important part of putting many old warbirds and propliners to work. "

Roger Brooks was the owner, as can be seen on the Notice, but he ceased his flight operations a few years ago. Maybe that has something to do with this scrapping, I don't know. Perhaps that fuselage will resurface somewhere?

Bob identified the guy doing the buying and hauling, one Harold Sheppard from Greybull, WY. The truck said Riverton,WY.
Harold has a scrap business and is a friend of Roger Brooks, that’s the connection.
He has saved as many parts as possible for another DC-4 he is building. The fuselage if not scrapped will be cut up and put in the smelter.
There may be a link with DC-4 N3054V, which Roger Brooks is preparing for Alaska Air Fuel (Palmer,AK). See further down this page.

Btw, in the background of the lower right image one can see the remains of DC-7 N90804 'African Queen'. I saw this last in 2008 at a different location, see Coolidge,AZ 2008 My page USA Southwest 2017, page 2 has a photo and a Jan.2020 update!

And see my report of visiting Falcon Field in 2008.
I came across both N67017 and N67019 once more, when I visited Greybull in Oct.2014.
And see the 1978 photo of N67017 shared by Ron Mak for his gallery on my website.

N67019 had been removed a short while before, as this photo published on the WIX-forum by 'cadet77' testifies:

The image had the following caption: "The end of Douglas C-54B Skymaster (United States Navy) (DC-4) N67019 at Falcon Field in Mesa Arizona on February 3 2013. The cockpit was separated from the fuselage earlier this year; hopefully it was saved."

I came across both N67017 and N67019 once more, when I visited Greybull in Oct.2014.

But as one can see, there is a difference between N67017 and N67019 how they were hauled away: N67017 is intact has the cockpit still attached while N67019 is sans cockpit. Photos on the Ken Swartz gallery hosted on my website shows where it has gone: to Houma,LA (I am pretty sure of this!).

I have come across 'Tooie' myself in 2000: The Deep South; and there is detailed history on Photos by Friends & Others (14)

Marc Hookerman came up with the identities: "They are C-46 N92853 and (top) C-119 N15509.  That is the Tobin Creek Mine Airstrip (closed)."

C-119G N15509 (c/n 10775) crashed on 21Apr84, while on take off from Venetie Airport with destination Fairbanks. See Aviation Safety Network.

See also my page on Abandoned Wrecks of the North

G-APEP was built as Vickers Vanguard 953C (c/n 719). G-APEP flew with BEA, then British Airways, then to Air Bridge Carriers (ABC), which changed into Air Bridge and later to Hunting Air Cargo (1992 - 1998).

The Vickers Vanguard was a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrongs, a development of their successful Viscount design with considerably more internal room.
The Vanguard was introduced just before the first of the large jet-powered airliners, and was largely ignored by the market.
Only 44 were built, ordered by Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) and British European Airways (BEA).

After only about 10 years service TCA experimentally converted one of theirs to a freighter configuration, calling it the Cargoliner. This was considered successful, and in the early 1970s most were converted to freighters, those from BEA becoming the Merchantman.
These freighters remained in service for many years, with the last one (G-APEP) only retiring in 1996.
[Wikipedia, more..]

Also by Richard Nash is F-BASN, a Breguet 763 Provence, operated by Air France.
Note in the background 2 Curtiss C-46s of Capitol Airways/Lufthansa.

Breguet 763 Provence F-BASN had c/n 1. It was scrapped at Dakar at some point.

The Breguet 761/763/765 were a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet. The aircraft were normally called the Deux-Ponts (Double-Decker) but it was not an official name.
Breguet began design work on the Breguet 761 two-deck airliner even before the end of the WWII, in 1944.
The French Government ordered 12 production aircraft, the Breguet 76-3 which were later redesignated Br.763.
Six aircraft were to be operated by Air France and the other six by the Ministry of Transport.
The 763 had more powerful engines, an 1.20 metres (3 ft 11 in) larger wingspan, strengthened wings and three-crew flight deck (earlier aircraft had four crew).
The 763 first flew on 20 July 1951 and entered service with Air France during autumn 1952.

During 1964 Air France transferred six Br.763s to the French Air Force. The air force also acquired the three pre-production Br.761S aircraft and four new Br.765 Sahara freighter aircraft with removable cargo doors.

Projects to build versions powered with British engines (for possible United Kingdom buyers) did not come to fruition. The projects would have been the 766 (with the Bristol Hercules radial engine), and the 767 with British turboprop engines.

The prototype Br.761 entered service with Air Algérie in 1952 as a cargo aircraft. It was withdrawn early the next year.
Silver City Airways leased a Br.761 for three months in the summer of 1953 for use on the Hamburg - Berlin route. It was rumoured that Silver City Aws would purchase 3 aircraft, but this did not materialise into a sale.

The Breguet Br.763 Provence entered service with Air France on 10 March 1953. The inaugural route was Lyon - Algiers. The type was used on European routes from Paris, mainly to the Mediterranean area, but occasionally to London.
[Wikipedia, more..]

BUSH FLYING CAPTURED on Facebook.
Rich Hulina Aviation Photography

Ralph Pettersen (www.conniesurvivors.com) wrote an interesting update (may 2013) after visiting Alaska too:
"Alaska Air Fuel has been very busy flying heating oil to the Nixon Forks mine from its base in Palmer, AK. 
The DC-4 takes an hour and 15 minutes each way and carries 3,000 gallons in its 4 internal tanks and 8 barrels
loaded on skids. 
Former Brooks DC-4 N96358 has been making 3 round-trips (RT's) per day, weather permitting; with 25 RT's being completed as of Sunday 05May2013.  A 2nd former Brooks DC-4 (N3054V) is currently have tanks installed in Fairbanks by Roger Brooks and will join N96358 in the next few months. [Update 10Oct20: not sure if N3054V ever went operational, but currently as 'stored at Wasilla,AK'.]
Alaska Air Fuel also purchased the remains of DC-4 N82FA and other spareparts from Roger Brooks."
My page Photos by Friends & Guests #61 has a photo and details of incident N96358 on 10Oct20.

UPDATE N3054V-- Crashed (both occupants fatal) Tuesday 23Apr2024.
From ASN: This Douglas C-54D-DC Skymaster N3054V, operated by Alaska Air Fuel, was destroyed when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks Int'l Airport, AK (KFAI). Both pilots perished.
See my page Photos by Friends & Guests #61

Interested in that DC-3 in the background? I visited Palmer,AK on my USA 2012 trip.