Darcy Lafontaine sent me this image in Jan.2012 while he wrote:
"I came across that KC-97 wreckage when I was working for a company exploring the area, in 2008. I thought I'd pass you some pictures I took of the wreckage." See my page Abanoned Wrecks of the North

Jürgen wrote: "I've found this former CAF CL-66s in my slide collection.
Maybe someone could help to identify it; possibly a mistake in painting for tailnumber C-FNCW (msn 66.07), but who knows...?
Date on the slide is 05.1999; location is probably Calgary, where most of the Cosmos were stored in between.
Sorry, no info on the photographer. "

Alexandre Avrane, of AeroTransport Data Bank www.aerotransport.org, is in support of the same theory: "I would presume this was a mispaint for C-FNCW, c/n 7."

See details on Canada's CL-66s my on my page a visit to Saskatoon in 2007.

Roger visited the Museo Aerspecial Colombiana in Nov.2011

Junkers W 34 was a German-built, single-engine, passenger and transport aircraft. Developed in the 1920s, it was taken into service in 1926. The passenger version could take a pilot and five passengers.
The Junkers W 34 was manufactured in many different versions. The total production numbers for the civil market were around 1,000, a further 2,024 his and haus were built under license for the RLM and Luftwaffe.
The Colombian Air Force used the W 34 and K-43 in the Colombia-Peru War in 1932-3.
[Wikipedia}

"On the close up with me in it, you'll see a huge hole in the fuselage: the badge of the Eastern Provincial Airways (EPA) had been taken out quite savagely, by vandals or souvenir hunters."

More of Ron Mak's propliner photos see HERE and HERE

Karl E. Hayes wrote a monograph on the DHC-3 Otter, exploring in detail the individual histories; from his work I quote:
Otter c/n 258 was delivered to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd on 16th April 1958, registered VH-EAZ.
This was one of four Otters delivered to the Australian national airline for services in the Territory of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Otter was shipped to Australia where it was re-assembled at Bankstown and joined the Qantas fleet in August 1958 named 'Kerowagi'.
It was one of three Otter landplanes, based at Lae and operated services into the Highlands.
With effect from 1st September 1960, the four Qantas Otters were taken over by Trans Australia Airlines (TAA), re-painted into TAA colours and re-registered. VH-EAZ became VH-SBT with TAA, and retained the name 'Kerowagi'.

VH-SBT continued in service on TAA's 'Sunbird' services within PNG until 1st November 1966, when it was ferried from Lae to Bankstown airfield near Sydney, where it was soon joined by VHSBR (c/n 247).
Both Otters were put into storage awaiting sale.
They were traded in to Hawker de Havilland against new DHC-6 Twin Otters. Hawker de Havilland in turn sold the two Otters to Bannock Aerospace Ltd of Toronto, VH-SBT being sold in June 1968.
Bannock Aerospace sold the Otter to Air West Airlines of Vancouver, BC on 13th August 1968. At that stage it had 6,109 hours on the airframe.
Marks CF-XRI were allocated and it commenced the long ferry flight from Sydney to Vancouver, island-hopping across the Pacific, on 17th September '68.

CF-XRI entered service with Air West Airlines, flying from its Vancouver base, alongside its fleet of Beavers and Twin Otters.
Air West became part of Air BC, to whom the Otter was registered in December 1980, by then carrying the marks C-FXRI.
A minor incident was recorded on 4th February 1981 at Campbell River when the Otter struck a sub-merged rock during take-off and punctured the starboard float. When it became clear that Air BC's attempt to merge the many floatplane operators it had acquired into a unified airline was not going to work, the process was reversed and they were sold off.
CoVal Air Ltd acquired Air BC's Campbell River base on Vancouver Island and aircraft, including Otter C-FXRI. The Otter continued flying for this company from Campbell River until 30th April 1986, when it arrived at Vancouver on conclusion of its service with CoVal Air.

The Otter remained parked at Vancouver for a time, until sold to Osprey Wings Ltd of Missinipe, Saskatchewan, to whom it was registered in April 1987.
The Otter has been converted to a Vazar turbine by T.C.Aviation at Saskatoon, a company associated with Osprey Wings.
./end quote

The show was quite good and attracted a pretty good sized crowd."
Darryl
Vintage and Warbirds of the World www.vintageandwarbirds.org
Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group www.cnapg.org
 

For these, and many more, vintage aeroplanes see my trip OZ 2005 and OZ 2005 (2)

Rolf provided the history:
C-54 42-72505 c/n 10610 - was delivered to the US Air Force on 7 March 1945; it visited Stockholm-Bromma during the winter of 1945/1946 when Carl Clementzlor took this picture.
When 42-72505 was retired from active duty the aircraft ended up at Davis-Monthan AFB and was offered for sale in 1967.
It was one in a batch of a number of C-54 aircraft which was available for sale for the civil market, but apparently the FAA for reasons unknown deemed it unsuitable. Most likely 272505 was dismantled for spares at Davis-Monthan.

The background seems to show a Curtiss C-46 Commando..? -Webmaster)

This is C-47 N843DD, and for more on Ron's exploits with DC-3's see
PHOTOS BY FRIEND AND GUESTS PAGE 28

And this is what happened to his DC-3 N134D, passed it on to a museum in Florida:

Chase Hargrove is showing the article in the Pasco Tribune (22Sep11), one of the captions reads:
"Chase Hargrove and Mike Varnum unload the wings of a C-47 plane used during World War II.
After it is patched and fixed up, it will be on display outside the World War II Baracks (sic) Museum,
which is in the Zephyrhills Municipal Airport,FL."

What is the significance or meaning of the titles 'Aero Descanso'?
'HJL-27' is probably a poor attempt for a fake registration, but perhaps also a link to the original one?

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Reinhard Zinabold shot this glorious take off by Beech 18 C-FNKL:

Reinhard has many more photos to share on Flickr.com of this trip to Canada's bush plane country!

I undertook a similar trip in 2008

This is a photo of a Dornier Do-27B-1 in Israeli Air Force colours that I recently (Sep. 2011?) took at the Juneau Int'l Airport, inspite of the driving rain!
It was built in 1956, s/n 103, currently registered as N776AX (former registrations: D-ENAT, AS-901 and
55-01).
More details about the history of this interesting bird welcome.
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