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Former Texas Air National Guard Convair C-131B
It has been almost sixteen full years years since I made a magical trip from New Hampshire to Fairbanks, Alaska. My main reason was to report on the Indian Air Force’s first deployment to Alaska, to participate in the 2004 Cooperative Cope Thunder exercise. Of course, there was ample time in my trip’s itinerary to go plane spotting at a new airport, and Fairbanks International Airport didn’t disappoint.
Curtiss C-46F in the foreground was once operated by the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force
Back then, there were many old propliners and former military transports still flying in interior Alaska...
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