Flatbed Kingfishers ...

[Mark Allen M]

For those of you who will be restoring those OS2U's soon and want some advice on how to truck them home these photos should help. Below A series of eleven photographs showing members of the Fifth Special Naval Construction Battalion craning OS2U Kingfishers of Scouting Squadron (VS) 56 onto trucks and transporting them from Andrew Lake to Clam Lagoon at Naval Air Station (NAS) Adak in the Aleutians. c 1944

[tom roberts]

Great pictures
See that they "chained up"

[The Inspector]

Great pictures
See that they "chained up"

Yeah, but those are the Summer chains-

[airnutz]

Brrrrrrrrr!

[JohnB]

Up there you can transport an airplane on a truck.
No traffic, no trees...no power poles.

[hang the expense]

And the mosquitos will eat you alive. Think its too cold for them? Its not.

[Steve Nelson]

Great pics! I'd been trying to figure out how to get my OS2U out of the backyard and over to the nearest lake.

I really wish somebody would rebuild a flying Kingfisher on floats. Hey, sounds like it'd be right up Kermit's alley....


SN

[hang the expense]

Should be.