A repaint of the excellent Asobo/Microsoft/Orbx de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou in the colours of Greatland Air Cargo. Originally delivered to the US Army in October 1964 as 63-9754 (c/n 215), this particular example was initially flown by the 17th Aviation Company until 1966 when, under the Johnson-McConnell agreement, the army relinquished its fixed wing fleet to the US Air Force, including 133 CV-7Bs (as the DHC-4 was known in service) in exchange for an end to restrictions on its rotary wing operations. Consequently, the unit was disbanded and the aircraft transferred under Operation Red Leaf to the newly created 537th Troop Carrier Squadron where it was redesignated a C-7A.
It was demobbed in 1983 and placed into storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona where it remained for five years before being moved to nearby Tucson International Airport and civilianised for onward sale. Allocated the registration N2225C, it moved to Alaska in 1993 and used by Everts Air Fuel as a tanker and freighter before eventually passing into the hands of Anchorage-based Greatland Air Cargo. Sadly, 25C was written off in August 2001 when it crashed on landing at Port Alsworth after encountering downdrafts and windshear.
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Happy flying
Geordie
Ginete
Thank you!
Paul_K
Another nice one, thank you. Keep the Caribou paints coming - fictional or factual. 😊