Air Mobility Command Museum, Part 7 - C-7 Caribou

[OldAirmail]

Back again with the pictures.

There were a lot of airplanes out there, just a little over 30, or so.

I don't have pictures of all of them, and many, for one reason or another, weren't open.

At some point I'll just post the pictures of the ones with only one or two shots.



But for now the

C-7 / DHC-4 Caribou.


This was a surprise for me. The plane was smaller than I had expected.

But it was fun to finally get inside a real live de Havilland Caribou. Nice and homey.

[Dave T]

Its nice to see pictures of aircraft I would probably never get to see in real life thanks for sharing.

[Flying Trucker]

Entire set nicely done...thanks for taking us along...

The aircraft that replaced the " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havill ... -4_Caribou"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havill ... -5_Buffalo

The United States Army(some aircraft transferred to the United States Air Force) has the DHC-4 Caribou in storage and there is talk about re-engining them...both excellent STOL aeroplanes...

[Shadowcaster]

Lovely set of pictures there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada
de Havilland Canada have produced really great aircraft over the years. From the humble Chipmunk (many fond memories of AEF with the ATC) and one of my favorites the Beaver, it's the first plane I install into FSX closely followed by the Chippy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tueZ3wVYf_I

Cheers
Rich

[logjam]

I remember well the Caribou C4A delivered to the Kenyan Air Force in 1966. Some sort of scam between the then Commonwealth country of Canada with the newly independent Kenya. They used Beavers as initial aircraft to extract casualties from the Northern Frontier District. Then as the RAF 21 Sqdn Twin Pioneers were withdrawn, the KAF got the Caribou C4A to do the same job. It actually was a much better plane than the Twin Pin, carrying more payload, even though the Twin Pin had better STOL performance. Better to make a longer runway than risk 2 planes on the same mission. The Caribou was replaced by the Buffalo in many instances and would have been great in 1966 doing the casevac job there. Great pictures of the US version there.

[OldAirmail]

Thanks for all the comments.

As I said, this plane was a pleasure to get inside of.

For many, these old aircraft are familiar friends.

But for most of us, we have no real feel for the aircraft that we fly in the sims.

So while I've been to this air museum before, this time was special.


I'm glad that you guys liked the pictures, although I don't think that my photography was very good.

More planes to come later.

[Anthindelahunt]

Great pics OAM.Keep them coming.Wish there was a
decent Caribou for FSX.I have the Virtavia model but
the cockpit is trash.

Anthin.

[Rifleman]

Nice to see some shots of this old bird.....they were all built right near to where I was a kid and went to school.....in about 1966 as I was in Air Cadets, I was fortunate to nip a ride in one over Quinte, flying out of Trenton.....seeing those web seats gave me flashbacks.....

[OldAirmail]

Glad that you liked it, I sure did.

Has anyone tried the Virtavia DHC-4 (C-7) Caribou?