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Their web site makes it sound like they're going strong, but the actual facility is rather shabby and it looked like no one had been there for a while, judging from the weeds growing up around the office door, weathered paint, trash, etc. Perhaps someone from the South Jersey area can add some real info?

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

This posting is very ironic, the reason being, I was on the East Coast recently on business and flew in and out of Newark. Being a bit nervous about the traffic in and around NYC, I was early for my flight home. As I waited for my flight, I remembered the Per-Turbo operation and the Caribou's. I always thought they were pretty cool planes and might make a nice addition to a Viet Nam portion of an airshow. From what I understand, they are stout and overbuilt. I agree the website appears to be active, but the info is dated. I wonder how many PT-6 conversions were completed ?

The RAAF recently retired their Caribou, and there are a number awaiting disposal - not sure of the criteria. Most have already been allocated / disposed of.

The Historic Aircraft Restorations Society (HARS) guys in New South Wales have two airworthy Caribou, and have started their commemorative flying programme with one.

http://www.adf-serials.com/
Go to 'RAAF / ADF Series Three serials', Caribou, A4-

Or: http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a4.shtml

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

There are at least two conversions completed and flying. The crew I spoke to over in theater made it sound like they were simply waiting for customers to build more, and that their foray overseas was part of a way to get the airplane some real world exposure.

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I believe that some of the engines from the Spanish AF Caribous found their way onto the Yak-3U-R2000s. IIRC SteadFast started out with a power plant from this source, although I'm not sure whether it was a unit fron spares stock or actually came off one of the airframes.