Field of Dreams - Part 2

[hercrat]

Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada, May 1st, 2011

[Tulio]

Great!!!!!

Good color, and sharp images. Looks cold, cold, cold...

Are you BTW, the guy who flies supplies to town up North, during the summer?

Saludos,


Tulio

[hercrat]

Actually I fly stuff around the Arctic all year round! I just happen to be in Hay River this time to load drilling equipment on our Hercules and fly it to an iron ore mine at the northern end of Baffin Island. Weather was great and the sun was just right for these pics.....and it was a warm -4c !!

[Dewayne Doud]

Thanks for the pics! Tanker 14 and the blue and white DC-4 are formerly Aero Union aircraft. Tanker 14 was one the last DC-4's used as an airtanker in the U.S. The blue and white DC-4 was never an airtanker it was flown on contract to G.E. in upstate New York for airborne electronic systems testing. It had a fighter radar and radome mounted on its nose at one time.

[Lynn Allen]

Is Buffalo Air flying the DC-4's anymore??

[whistlingdeath77]

can anything be saved?

[darrenvox]

nice photos, hope that buffalo can do soemething with them

what did C-FBAM fly for origionally, cant be buffalo as its light blue...

[whistlingdeath77]

are these planes going to stay in this condition, sold, scrap or saved?

[hercrat]

Don't imagine Buffalo Air will scrap any.......too valuable for parts. Anything is possible though!

[whistlingdeath77]

i hope they all go to musuems or fly!

[Dan Jones]

No need to worry about anything getting scrapped, this is just one of Buffalo's storage areas. Think of it more as a "living" storage area - planes come and go all the time. Red Deer is another one. Those old airplanes are very, very safe - they get activated and parked again as required.

[cooper9411]

Bet the weather isn't so great up there now!