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On a regular basis people sent me photos, to share their enthusiasm for vintage airliners or to illustrate a question. These photos have been lingering in a scrapbook or a discarded box somewhere and/or probably wouldn't find their way to Online-use or publication. To prevent them from getting lost, with permission of the sender, I would like to share them on this page. Photos already online (personal websites, airliners.net, jetphotos.net, etc) are not meant to be included here. |
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[My visit in 2003 to Coventry,UK may also be of interest, the former homebase of this L.188 Electra] |
 John Maxwell sent me this remarkable photo.
You can find the history of Douglas DC-6BF c/n 44894 with photos I took at Kenai,AK in 2006: HERE.. |
 L188C C-FIJX (ex-N2RK) c/n 2010 at Red Deer
[My visit in 2003 to Coventry,UK may be of interest, the former homebase of this L.188 Electra. -Webmaster] See also above, an update by Udo Krause! You may find my CANADA 2019 revisit to Red Deer of interest. |
| Fred W. Wallis wrote me in June 2011:
See also my visit to Abbotsford CANADA 2019 of interest, with pictures of many Conair tankers! |
N6595K has been registered to Skimmer One Inc (Old Chatham,NY) on 29Dec1999. FAA's N-inquiry website states it was manufactured in 1948 and is powered by a Lycoming engine, 0-320 series. The Colonial Model C-1 Skimmer is an American small single-engined amphibian flying boat built by the Colonial Aircraft Corporation. It was the start of a line of very similar aircraft designed by David Thurston. John Staber wrote me in response: "I am the owner of N6595K c/n 1 which Terry Fletcher submitted above. Here is a photo of herself on the Hudson River.
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| Ian Comleys noticed I hadn't photographed all planes on display at Monino's Russian Air Force Museum (visit April 2011) and he sent me below images which I compiled into one. The fierce, cold wind blowing that day and an uncomfortable condition on my feet restricted me somewhat; normally I have no problem crossing fences for a better photo, but this day I did not consider it even.  |
 I have John Olafson to thank for this photo of Buffalo's CL-215 airtanker C-GDHN/T296. John wrote: "One of Buffalo Joe’s CL215’s was sighted a few days ago in Kelowna. It seems they were practicing water pickups and drops from Okanagan Lake. Some of the procedures will be put into Season 3 of Ice Pilots which is being produced now. They planned to do the practice near Red Deer, but because of the shitty winter and horrible weather, all those local lakes were still frozen! I came across C-GDHN (stored?) with Viking Air at Victoria IAP on 07Oct2019 - CANADA 2019 |
| Mark Wade sent me this in january 2011: "I finally got around to dragging out my old photos from my 'service' days and found a couple of shots of a C-119 J air tanker that stopped over at the CDF Air Attack Base I was working at in 1983. I worked as a Seasonal Firefighter for California Department of Forestry at the Chico Air Attack Base at Chico, CA. during the summer of 1983. We had a large fire in the area and this aircraft loaded and flew out of the base for a few days. The pilots referred to it as a 'Flying Coffin'!!. It was quite impressive to see it take off using the jet pack. I have attached the photos that I have of the plane and a couple of the Air Attack Base."     N13743 (cn 10369) has been preserved at Pima Air & Space Museum, in Tucson,AZ --> see my 2008 REPORT |
| Mike Clayton sent me this photo by Russell Legg:
 The caption read: DC-3/C-47 'Calypso' near Surabaya, Indonesia. What is its identity? Russell wrote to Mike on 12Apr11: "I continue on my gruelling trek of tracking down airframes in Indonesia... Found this one at the Kenn Park (north east Surabaya) yesterday, after a two day search! The astrodome (still intact) points to it being an e/ xmilitary example. The airframe is complete, as you'll see, just minus props and engines and as far as I could ascertain from the 'inevitable' locals......it was moved, as a 'package', and hoisted to the roof of this now run-down hotel many years ago. Kenn Park is a huge (run down) race-tracky, football ovally, Chinese Temple kind of a complex...perhaps a major 'events' facility but back in it's heyday! It's...now well into equatorial decay. The fuselage writing is 'CALYPSO', both sides... You will laugh when you picture my driver getting bogged while positioning me for this picture. We did manage, between us, to extract his vehicle! I was not able to access the roof area, of the Surkuit Hotel. And believe that it was probably not safe to do so...so - no 'mark-one eyeball' searching for c/n plates & etc etc. Distribute freely as you wish...no security issues here Bottom line is : nice to find one more C47 airframe survivor. But.... Which airframe is it????" While googling for information I came across this on a forum, not sure if the actual identity is given here:  Sedih melihat kondisi DC-3 ini sekarang[:@]..Dulu Pesawat ini dipajang sebagai identitas Calypso Discotique yang populer di Pantai Ria Kenjeran (KenPark) pada awal th-2000 (nama Calypso tertulis besar dikiri dan kanan badan pesawat). Waktu itu pesawat di gambar jilatan api dan dihisasi lampu warna-warni. Seiring waktu, Diskotiknya bubar jadi Sirkuit Hotel (yang kini juga sepi pengunjung) Diduga kuat saya..DC-3 inilah Ex The Rainmaker Dakota http://www.indoflyer.net/forum/printable.asp?m=308884&mpage=14 [Again translated by help from Fred de Ruiter: "Sad to see this DC-3 in this condition; it used to be placed as a landmark with the popular discotheque Calypso on the beach at Ria Kenjeran, early 2000. (the name Calypso was placed left and right on the plane with large letters). At that time the aircraft was painted with a flame and decorated with coloured lights. When the disco closed down the number of hotelguests at the circuit dried up. I think this DC-3 is the former Rainmaker Dakota."]
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| Carlos Gomez, who was a major force in pulling off the restoration of DC-7 N836D, sent me these images taken by Ugo Vicenzi (EXIF date 28mar2011):
Some more excellent pictures of the
Panam/Eastern DC-7B: |
| Jacques sent me this photo, placing it in the Congo: Fokker F.VIIa-sm (OO-...) of SABENA TRANSPORT in the Congo
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Ralph Requa sent me this photos and his memories of his stay in Amsterdam:
DC-7C/F PH-DSG (c/n 45186/829) went from KLM to Aer Turas (Ireland, EI-ATW) and from there to Compagnie Gabonaise d'Affrêtements Aériens (TR-LOJ) - scrapped at Harare. [See Airliners.net] |
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Robert 'Bob' Lavigne sent me these photos, all taken in Northern Ontario (Armstrong, Oct.2010). I made the compilation.  The most authoritative website on the deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver is Neal Aird's DHC-2.com |
Paul Janicki sent me this:  Paul wrote (Dec.2010): "I enjoyed seeing your report on the BCAM Museum. I visited there in 2004 and little has changed. The C-117 CG-JGQ seems to have moved as too, the A-26. The Viscount wasn’t there at the time of my visit and the T-33 had recently arrived and was in the workshop to which myself and wife were invited to view. You may already know that there is an airport at Port Hardy and though it was raining the day I visited, I was pleased to see a pair of Grumman Goose and amphibian Beavers. On leaving, a Black Bear ran across the approach road very close to the populated area! From Port Hardy we sailed on the ferry up the inside passage to Prince Rupert and after a 15 hour voyage we settled in for the next 2 nights . On one of the days, a trip was made to the seaplane base and an hour flight taken in DHC-2 Beaver C-FGQC over the local area. A great trip! Our road journey took us from Prince Rupert across BC to Jasper, Canmore and Calgary before heading home! " |
John Stewart sent me this photo, of CF-PWH in better days: For the history of CF-PWH and photos of its display at the Langley B.C. aviation museum, see HERE.. |
Klaus Hoppe sent me this photo of airliner-turned-restaurant:
 Klaus wrote me the following in March 2011:
I found the following information, and here is more on Airliners.net |
| Ron Mak sent me this image from his considerable propliner archive:
For more information on C-46 HC-AMV c/n 174, see Ron's Propliner Portfolio on this website  |
| Sean Keating came across these items during his (Sep.2010) ramblings; he wrote: "I found these items in a wreckers yard not too far from downtown Denver,CO and I was told they came from 'B52 Billiards' which closed, evidently. The engine could be from a C-119..?" 
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This is Convair CV580 C-FHKF (c/n 374), Tanker 55 of Conair.
