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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 may have been lingering in a scrapbook or a discarded box somewhere or show travelled the same trails as I did.
To prevent them from getting lost, with permission (or special request) of the sender, I like to share them on this page.
Photos already online (personal websites, airliners.net, jetphotos.net, etc) are not meant to be included here.

With the ever growing popularity of Social Media (Flickr, Facebook, Instagram) the barrier has become much lower for people to share their photographs or scans of slides online; imperfection to post aviation images is no longer an issue.
I noticed a decline in requests for publication on my website on my 'Guest Pages', so now some of these images shared below will be copied from Facebook & Flickr by me if I find it has some use for me. For preservation of their historic value as I see it; always preferably with proper credit to the photographer, of course!

Btw, while I am on social media, picking up on aviation news, I use it mainly for other interests while my website remains my main focus to share my interest in vintage aviation and various non-aviation subjects.

Walter van Brempt did some tourist travel in Guatamala recently, Feb.2024, but he did not forget to aim his
camera on some propliners, warbirds and other varieties. I skipped the modern airliners.
Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
North American P-51 Mustang, '336'
On display opposite the entrance to B.A. La Aurora since the late 1970s and originally displayed in camouflage
(wearing '360'), its original serial. By the mid 1980s it was displayed with fake serial '336' in an overall
silver scheme and by 2011 had gained a red lightning flash on the nose, as seen here, believed to have been worn
by the original '336' circa 1959. ¬ www.airhistory.net/photo/

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca - 1971-1983

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Douglas DC-3 converted to Basler Turbo variant, 530 (c/n 20031) Guatamala City 'La Aurora', 27Feb2024.
'Ex/ C-47A 43-15565, was delivered to Guatemala on 25Aug1962. It was converted between 1993 and 1996
to BT-67 and has been seen stored without props since 2016, awaiting a possible restoration to flying status.'
¬ www.airhistory.net/photo/

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
No doubt early variants of the Basler BT-67, now faced with a languishing death on La Aurora..

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
DC-3 converted to Basler Turbo variant, 560 (c/n 34398/17131) @Guatamala City 'La Aurora', 27Feb2024.
'Delivered to the USAAF as 45-1128 in 1945. To Guatemala as 560 in 1970. Convered to BT-67 #19 in 1994.
Stored at Guatemala City by 2022.' [¬ www.airhistory.net/photo/]

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Douglas DC-6B, TG-WOP - stored due wing corrosion

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Douglas DC-6B, TG-WOP (c/n 45539); looks fairly complete but I doubt it will ever fly again.

From my (RL) files: 'ex/ SX-DAD N111AD 926. Guatamala AF 926; Del to FAG 15feb73; ex/ SX-DAD, N111AD, rr TG-WOP.Surv02: std Guatamala City-La Aurora ln Sep99. Ln 05Apr00 std and same 22feb03. Ln 05Mar05 std. Ln 08Feb06 wfu std Guatamala City poor condition. Ln 22Sep06 La Aurora. Ln ANet Guatemala - La Aurora (GUA / MGGT) 23Nov07, std due wing corrosion.'
Std = stored. Ln=last noted, or 'reported'.

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
The airport 'dump' with a variety of airframes

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
The heat wave is a daunting obstacle but Walter attempted to document the military apron, here a Lockheed T-33.

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Probably a PC-7 on the left, but I do know the Cessna T-37 'Tweety Bird' from the Vietnam War.

FUERZA AEREA DE GUATEMALA
Permission was granted to form the Escuela Militar de Mecánicos de Aviación on 12 March 1921. This unit evolved into the branch that is called the Fuerza Aérea de Guatemala (FAG) today.
On 30 June 1929, the Cuerpo de Aviación Militar de Guatemala was formed, which was renamed Cuerpo de Aeronáutica Militar in 1936.
The FAG is a relatively small air force. It has relied mostly on US aircraft types during its history.
The F-51 Mustang, C-47 Dakota, T-33 and Huey are typical examples of this.
Some of these aircraft still serve the FAG today, the C-47 Dakota for example, albeit in the Turboprop variant. The FAG has no jet aircraft, and PC-7s and T-35s are used for training.
A single Arava carries out transport augmenting the Dakotas mentioned before.
A few modernization programme have been started in the 2000s although this has so far not led to delivery of new armed aircraft.
With a number of Cessna 208s and a DHC-6-400 Twin Otter, mainly light transport aircraft have been acquired the last few years. ¬ https://www.scramble.nl/planning/orbats/guatemala

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Pilatus PC-7 aircraft of the Guatamala Air Force, on the left 213?

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Air Tractor AT-502B, N765LA (c/n 502B-2740, mfr 2011)

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Volcán de Fuego near Guatamala City is a constant hazard for airport operations,
esspecialy at night when one can't monitor the amount of ash drifting towards
the airport. Fuego is famous for being almost constantly active at a low level.
Small explosions of gas and ash occur every 15 to 20 minutes. [¬ Wikipedia]

Vintage planes in Guatamala, by Walter van Brempt (2-2024)
Air Tractor AT-502B, TG-BIG; probably used for some agricultural purpose.

DHC-6, TG-JCE (c/n 422) opb ARM Aviacion (see below) - 27Feb2024
History of Twin Otter TG-JCE
twinotterworld.com/msn-422

Don McDonald sent some samples of his recenty digitized slides, of his flying days on propliners. Here's one.

Cockpit view, DC-3 take off somewhere NWT. More on Don McDonald's gallery on my website here

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Phil Brooks sent me this photo taken from Facebook and wrote: "I haven't been there in 30 years, but don't recall seeing it then. Unable to find any identify info on the internet."
Convair N9618A at Harrisburg IAP (FB 2024)

Convair N9618A at Harrisburg IAP (FB 2024)

Convair (N9618A) c/n 271 @ Harrisburg IAP (FB 2024). In use as a fire trainer?

While I did not have it in my database I consulted 'North American Survivors' by Roy Blewitt (Gatwick Aviation Society / Aviation Classics, 2005) and found it neatly documented in the Pennsylvania section: VT-29B c/n 271 - ex/ 51-5140 (Derelict) with additional text: "A Convair twin previously operated by Stambaugh's Air Service endures on the dump here. It is visible from the end of the road servicing the various fixed based operators."

From ATDB.aero (06May2024)
Convair (N9618A) c/n 271 @ Harrisburg IAP

From the Propliners section of Scramble.nl (May 2024)
C-47B 34222/16962 ZK-BBJ - Preserved Dakota at a Go-Kart track in Mombasa Kenya, went up in flames on 13Apr2024.
After a short power outage in the area, the power came back on and caused some serious sparks setting the airplane on fire. It was completely lost...

ZK-BBJ up in flames, completely destroyed
DC-3 ZK-BBJ went up in flames, completely destroyed; see my page on this ZK-BBJ which also has its history.

Phil Brooks wrote me in March 2024: "From the late Art Smit Roeters’ collection, now in my collection since his
passing. You are welcome to use it. I have never heard of this operator, have you?"
DC-3 Skyvans Inc

Phil: "I wish there was a registration visible, but this was taken to focus on the car, not the plane!
This would have been in 1946, based upon another photo in the set. Driver Duke Nalon is in the car.
The racing venue was a mile from where I grew up."
From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carb_Night_Classic The first Night Before the 500 event was held in 1946 at 16th Street Speedway (formerly Indianapolis Midget Speedway, and sometimes known as West 16th Street Speedway), a short track that was once located across the street from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The headline event was a double feature of Midget car racing sanctioned by the AAA Contest Board, held the night before the 1946 Indianapolis 500. The features were won by Benny Emerick and Leroy Warriner. The event quickly grew in popularity and prestige, and drew large fields of cars and large crowds.

Webmaster/RL: 'Flicked through Air Britain’s 'The First 70 Years', but this operator is not mentioned in the Operators Index.
Checked ATDB.aero (paid subscriber) but no info. There's mention of a Sky Van Airways (Seattle) 1964-1965 but they operated C-46s. Also (same?) Skyvan Airways (Boeing Field) 1961-1965, C-46s.
And I also checked the Air-Britain DC-3 1984 edition but not listed in the (US) Operators Index either...

Plenty of one-aircraft-operators trying to make a living with a surplus DC-3 shortly after WW2…
Reader can write me through EMAIL

Fascinating account: and identification of Douglas A-20 Havoc crashing on 1943 Lend-Lease ferry near Fort Nelson
Douglas A-20 Havoc crashes in 1943 on Led-Lease ferry fligh in Britisch Colombia

Douglas A-20 Havoc crashes in 1943 on Led-Lease ferry fligh in Britisch Colombia

For more information see my gallery Abandoned Wrecks of the Arctic North

Received following from Pete Danes (19Feb24):
"The owner is flying, I am the one completely on top..."
Beech 18 - N320A

History of N320A (a WWII veteran, AT-11 41-9451 (c/n 877), is detailed on my Photos by Friends & Guests #48

Bill Cole reported on Facebook this incident with Otter C-GMDG.
Toppled by heavy winds, Otter C-GMDG

Toppled by strongs winds. Recovered and no doubt will return to operations.
It's pictured on Ken Swartz's gallery on my website, in better days.

Neville Webb wrote me in Jan.2024:
"Please add these photos of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's Fokker F.VIIb-3m Southern Cross,
which is preserved in a purpose-built display near Brisbane International Airport, Australia.
Photos taken by my son, Michael Webb, in 2009."
More photos on Neville's Gallery on my website.

A recent post on the internet ". "...Cal Fire will finally get its C-130s! (Dec.2023)" and a report that in Jan.2024 - five C-130's were sighted at McClellan (no photos due to fences, buildings, etc), airtanker tail numbers 116, 117, 118, 120, 121." So I promptly wrote my 'McClellan contact" for details...

John Vogel sent me several C-130 pix but also the following text: "No, I really do not know much about the Cal Fire
C-130s. I do know that, as of today (14Jan24 -RL), none of them have flown on a fire. They were supposed to have
their wing box (where the wing attaches to the fuselage) strengthened, and they were supposed to have the Coulson RADS (Retardant Aerial Delivery System) installed. I do not know if these things have been accomplished.
I do know that they seem to spend a lot of time sitting on the ramp; they are easy to see, but not easy to photograph .

John also sent these photos.
C-130 Herc surveillance variant

C-130 Herc surveillance variant
Very small serial below the tailfin: 87-057. John remarked: "I have a few pictures of USCG 1721. This is
HC-130H construction number 5121, US Air Force serial number 87-0157, for the USCG side number 1721.
These 2 pictures (slides scanned to JPEG) were taken at Edwards AFB in October 1997.

C-130 Hercules MAFFS equipped
C-130 Hercules, 1721 / Airtanker 118, MAFFS equipped; note discharge tube in the paratrooper door.
John: '(not sure if the complete MAFFS was installed) seen at McClellan in July 2015.
It is marked on the tail for the US Fores Service.'

C-130 Hercules airtanker @McClellan Air Park
C-130 Hercules airtanker (T118, US Forest Service c/s), McClellan 2016.

C-130 Hercules airtanker @McClellan Air Park
C-130 Cal Fire tanker 118 repainted (at McClellan Dec.2021)

Geoff Goodall R.I.P. (1947-2024)

From: vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/geoff-goodall-1947-2024

www.scramble.nl/military-news/two-icons-have-passed-away

John Vogel sent me: "As of last week (02Jan24, by EXIF data), these were the only two Aero Union P-3’s left at McClellan Field."
P-3 air tankers @McClellan, by John Vogel

P-3 air tankers @McClellan, by John Vogel

Airstrike tanker #23 and Aero Union tanker #21 at McClellan Business (Air) Park.
See my Airtanker Id details for more details on Airstrike's fate.
I visited this air tanker base in 2018, see my REPORT (it includes my visit to Aerospace Museum of California)

First post this new year (01Jan24): CF-FAY photographed in Oct/Nov 1974 in Thompson, Manitoba by Bernd Krueger
CF-FAY (C-FFAY) 1974 by Bernd Krueger)

History of CF-FAY is detailed on my Red Deer 2006 + Red Deer 2019 report, where I photographed C-FFAY.

Joe F. Baugher passed on 12Nov2023; R.I.P.
Joe Baugher 11-2023 R.I.P.
Joe's primary interest was in military aviation, and so the above page always pointed first to a lot of aviation links
which he found useful. He declared himself an aircraft serial number freak, and he compiled a bunch of tables of US
Air Force, US Navy, and US Coast Guard aircraft serial numbers.
Those number pages were a treasure trove for those looking for identification of aircraft and details to their history.
I certainly often made use of Joe's data when I still researched vintage aircraft .
Joe also published his articls on medical subjects, insurances, pensions, education, astronomy, et cetera.
He'll be sorely missed!
www.joebaugher.com

I found this through Bing.com:
"Joseph F. Baugher was a remarkable individual with a rich background in physics, software engineering, and aviation. Baugher’s contributions extended beyond his academic pursuits, as he authored articles on aviation and left an indelible mark on the field.

Baugher graduated from Gettysburg College in 1963 and continued his studies in physics under the guidance of Philip J. Bray at Brown University, earning his Ph.D. in 1968.
His passion for aviation led him to create the American Military Aircraft website, a comprehensive resource that meticulously documents the life cycle of various U.S. fighter and bomber models, as well as several foreign aircraft types.

One of the iconic aircraft he covered was the North American F-86A Sabre, a jet fighter that played a significant role in aviation history. The F-86A, with its sleek design and performance capabilities, saw service during the Korean War and contributed to the evolution of fighter aircraft.

Dr. Baugher’s dedication to preserving and sharing knowledge about military aviation has left an enduring legacy. His work continues to be a valuable resource for enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in the fascinating world of aircraft.

www.scramble.nl/military-news/two-icons-have-passed-away

John Vogel emailed me (Dec.2023): 'I was fortunate enough to get the attached photos of N422NA 'Bataan' at Mather Field in Sacramento on August 9 of this year. We – the Sacramento area – have been fortunate to not have any forest fires. A few minor fires were easily handled by the S-2’s and S-70’s from Cal Fire. The only tankers to sit ‘on call’ at McClellan were the Erickson DC-9, the DC-10, and Neptune BAe.'

Lockheed VC-121B Constellation N422NA at Mather Air Show 09Aug23, by John Vogel.

Lockheed VC-121B Constellation N422NA at Mather Air Show 09Aug23, by John Vogel
N422NA's history is described on my 2008 page, when it was still 'dead' and on display at Valle,AZ: HERE...

Here's a 01Dec2023 update by JoeJoe, the two C-119s at Palmer (PAAQ) seem to be reunited, but not sure
if this is in the storage area or on the operational ramp...? EMAIL me!
Both C-119s at Palmer reunited Dec.2023

N1394N & N8501W.
There has always been 2 C-119s here at Palmer (PAAQ), a failed attempt by John Reffett in the 1990s to use them commercially (intra state on a limited flight certificate) with one flight crew. N1394N went to a storage part (2014 afaik) while the other remained on the ramp and on occasion had its engine doing a test run.
Now both seem to be reunited. See my 2003 AlCan03-p2 report for their history.
JoeJoe's Gallery on my website PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE

Spotted this on Facebook today (19Nov23).

DC-2 converted 5th wheeler, to Albury

This was published on FB: "A piece of Australian aviation history has been found. 'Bungana', a Douglas DC-2 (serial
no. 1580) is perhaps the best known DC-2 within Australia after 'Uiver'... It arrived in AU in 1936 and served until 1947 when it was scrapped. An enterprising individual took the fuselage and converted it into a caravan, it
subsequently disappeared. Darryl recently located the van and had it transported to Albury!"

Found an earlier post on Scramble.nl:
Luftwaffe Transalls to Australia
Three C.160s ex/ Luftwaffe for conversion to Australia:
D120 VH-RPR (ex/ 50+83), D125 VH-RFW (ex/ 50+88) + D77 VH-TIT (ex/ D77).
More details on: www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/

Danielle of '38NorthAviation' (a 'B&B @Ennis, Montana' project in progress) sent me an update.

There's also an update further down this page. And more on her project on my Photos by Friends & Guests #63
which has two more links to this DC-3 on my website...

38NorthAviation

38NorthAviation
The Barn is a project of its own, costly but absolutely fitting in the Montana landscape!

Dan Kirkby posted a photo of the Gananoque Ghost on Facebook, allegedly awaiting transport to elsewhere.
Canso / Catalina CF-NJL, the Gananoque Ghost

Canso / Catalina CF-NJL, the Gananoque Ghost

I photographed this Canso CF-NJL in its long time storage, see my US-Canada 2009 Report for more details .

Gino Lucci updated his restoration project of N47FJ (c/n 9053; ex/ 42-32827) in Michigan.
N47FJ for restoration

Gino Lucci wrote: 'C-47 c/n 9053. As 42-32827 she is a Veteran of North Africa, Sicily, D-Day and Market Garden. No she is not corroded! Right now we are preserving her.
In a couple weeks she gets her wings and in Spring [2024] her war paint!'
¬ FB/The Douglas DC-3 Appreciation Society (03Oct23)

C-47 42-32827

From Air Britain's The First Seventy Years:
C-47 c/n 9053
42-32827 + NC63800 + N1623 + N1823 + N1820 + CF-WCM + N90795 + N47FJ

This was recently posted on Facebook, identity unknown, most likely a converted DC-6B (DC-4?) (note pax windows).
VUELO777 @La Guaira

DC-4 VUELO777 Bar & Lounge @La Guaira
See my Latin-America gallery for Off-Airport vintage aeroplanes

Ken Swartz is roadtripping through parts of Ontario, various pix to his gallery, here's one:
DHC-6 C-FOPJ @Dryden by Ken Swartz

DHC-6-300 C-FOPJ/845 (c/n 344), operator Ministry of Natural Resources - @Dryden by Ken Swartz.

Craig Owensby wrote me in Sep.2023: "07Sep1946 Mt. McKinley Air Service near Nome.
My Dad took this picture, he was in the Coast Guard at Nome at the time."
Wreck of DC-3 NC91002 at Nome,AK 1946

Photo via Craig Owensby. More details on NC91002 on my Alaska Early Aviation page

Michael Prophet (Vintage Aviation Photos) shared a link with me:
DC-3 Lady Luck preserved in Wisconsin
The photo dates from August 9th, 2023.
The link being: eu.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2023/08/16/- -dc-3-converted-into-airbnb-in-..

This is from Ralph Pettersen's www.proplinerinfoexchange.com:
"Lady Luck moved to Shell Creek - July 8, 2023 - Updated July 14, 2023"
I wrote to Ralph and he responded: "I’m also almost certain that the aircraft removed from Basler was N102BF. In any event, the BNB aircraft in Wisconsin is definitely NOT N408D, no matter what the owner wrote on the nose."

Note: Michael Prophet thinks the AirBnb is N102BF (from Basler), he quoted the following history:
'17216 (MSN 13226) ex USAAF 42-93327. To US Navy 11May44. Cherry Pt 11May44. MAG-51 Aug44. MAG-91 Nov44. MAW-9 Dec44. MAG-35 Apr45, MAW-9 Jan46. MAG-21 Apr46. Quonset Pt Jun46. VR-3 Patuxent Nov46. Cherry Pt Jun48. converted to R4D-8 MSN 43334. New Orleans "TX" 1961. To C-117D 18Sep62. Stored Davis Monthan. Sold less engines 30Oct74 To civilian registry as N102BF. Seen in K-Tech yard 8/28/2000. Fuselage noted at Basler's Oshkosh facility July 2002. Originally acquired by Turbo Three Corporation, not converted and sold to Basler as N102BF. Fuselage still at Oshkosh 2005.' (-No source quoted)
-->WHAT ABOUT THE 'LADY LUCK' DECAL ON THE NOSE ???

The byline: TORK MASON, USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN.
"Guests can spend the night in a World War II cargo plane at this Airbnb created by an Antigo businessman".
The 70-foot-long plane also was owned by an Oshkosh aviation company that restores old warbirds for use in the modern era [RL, webmaster: Basler Turbo Conversions, also Wisconsin based].
It now rests on specially made steel frames about a story high, nestled among trees on lakeside property a handful of miles north of Antigo. The plane has been open to overnight guests for more than a month now."
Antigo is located by ca. 185mls / 3hrs from Milwaukee.

A Dutch site has pix & details on AirBnb: www.airbnb.nl/rooms/937137757270870352

Peter C. Hill located the wrecked C-GNWI, at Yellowknife Airport (NWT):

For more on C-GNWI see my Photo by Friends & Guests, #27

In 2003 I came across DC-6 N7919C at Fairbanks. (LINK)

Note the clipped wings!

From my 2003 report: "In less than 10 years Air Cargo Express / Everts Air Cargo grew to be a major player in Alaska and this must have hurt Northern Air Cargo's business; while in 1995 I had seen no stored 'Sixes' of NAC at Fairbanks, now I found several.
DC-6B N7919C in the forefront seems perfectly operational. Behind it sits DC-6B/ST 'SwingTail' N434TA (44434/515) and that one is stored. Check N434TA out in 1995, Fairbanks in full operational glory.

Walter van Brempt was offered a peek inside of DC-6B N7919C, in 2001:
Interior of DC-6B N7919C (WvB 2015)

Interior of DC-6B N7919C (WvB 2015)

Interior of DC-6B N7919C (WvB 2015)
NAC's N7919C in maintenance. Back in the tail, due to temporarily removed of the pressure bulkhead, one could
see on the spars of the elavator of this ex/ Dutch DC-6 the dutch warning: "Gevaarlijk niet op verwarming buizen
gaan staan of op leunen" (EN: 'Dangerous do not lean or stand on the heating manifold').

History on c/n DC-6B 43554 by ATDB.aero

Joey Barnes posted this in July 2023 on FB: 'It only took a few years but finally got my Beech 18 CF-PJG
up on display! Under water for 45 years, salvaged in 2016 then brought back to the Kingdom in 2020.
Since it was a wide load we used the plow truck name Thor to plow the 100kms of road so the plow and wing
made it wide enough so the on coming traffic never knew there was a wide plane on a trailer behind.
Now up on the tank shed which is part of my daily youtube videos. Thansk!'
Beech 18, King of Obsolete @TheKingdom

King of Obsolete! See for the salvage- and aircraft history my Photos by Friends & Guests #60.

Danielle (38NorthAviation) sent an update of her DC3-conversion-to-B&B
DC-3 Montana
She wrote: 'Things have gotten pretty busy out here. LOTS done on the airplane, even though as it sits and looks like nothing at all was done .' Her DC-3-455 N486C (c/n 6325) has been moved to her property in Montana and is slowly being converted. This update concerns the installation of the landing gear on the plane earlier in July 2023.
More on her project on my Photos by Friends & Guests #63 which has two more links to this DC-3 on my website.

See also an update sent to me in Nov.2023, alomst at the top of the page!

Disassembly of Fairchild F.27, N127HP (msn 33), for transport July 2023 to the Hagerstown Aviation Museum
N127HP, from Greybull to Hagerstown 2023!

I have a dedicated page to this Fairchild turboprop aircraft as at some point, decades ago, I came across
this Fairchild F-27 N127HP with H&P at Greybull, Wyoming. See LINK.

Dave Green provided me with these photos in June 2023: "On your page Iceland 2007, you visited this aircraft:
C-45, 53-10672. I have some added duty locations for her, including her service with the 146th Wing at the
Van Nuys Air National Guard Station."
Beech C-45, 53-10672

Dave: "I was able to add the history years between 1955 to 1961.
53-10672 (MSN AF-602), remanufactured by Beech from AT-11 41-27441.
U.S. Army Air Forces Bombardier Training School at Victorville, CA on 09May1942.
After the war, 41-27441 was stored at Norton AFB in California (1948), the type designator was changed from AT-11 to T-11 in 1953 - The plane was moved by railroad to Herrington, Kansas, in 1953, where it was rebuilt by Beechcraft as C-45 53-10672. January 8th, 1954.
USAF Continental Air Command in Ellington AFB, Texas 1956 – Stationed with the 146th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 115th Utility Flight, Van Nuys Air National Guard Station, Van Nuys, CA. 1961.
Retired from the 146th Air Transport Wing (Heavy), 195th Utility Flight, Van Nuys Air National Guard Station, Van Nuys, CA. 1963.
52-10672 was declared surplus to requirements and put in storage at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona in 1964.
[Cont. ..]

Beech C-45, 53-10672

[.. continued:]
Sold to Norðurflug, Akureyri., Iceland. To civil registry as TF-JME.
Converted to Hamilton Little Liner in 1968.
Then to TF-JMP. In 1987 TF-JMP was under restoration at Akureyri, Iceland. Has been reregistered TF-JFA. Reported Feb. 2009 preserved in airworthy condition at Icelandic Aviation Museum."
Thanks again, David Green, TSgt, USAF, Retired.

Beech C-45, 53-10672 Beech C-45 210672, California Air National Guard

Created: 18-Jul-2023
Updated: 19-Jul-2022