Scramble 340

The two famous Timberland Martin Mars Flying Tankers from Sprout Lake, Canada were bought by the Coulson Company earlier
this year. Subsequently Coulson-titles were added to this legendary aircraft, which are shown here on C-FLYL..
(Sprout Lake (B.C.), 10 June 2007, Walter van Brempt)
BT67 26120 C-GEAJ ex N40386 of Basler Turbo Conversion operating for the USAF Special Forces.
Conversion # 35 returned to Oshkosh 27 February 2007. On 13 August in was
registered to Triumph Airways in Canada as C-GEAJ. It ferried Oshkosh (WI) –
Oshawa (Ont.) on 17 August. Seen operational in an all white livery at Oshawa at 19
August.
C-47B 26593 HK-1149 Aerovanguardia. w/o after crash landing near Puerto Concordia enroute to
Villavicencio.
C-47B 26792 N47SJ Of the three Dakotas parked at Villeneuve, Alberta N47SJ has been sold as first. It
flew to the Estrella Warbirds Museum at Paso Robles (CA) on 27 June. N215CM
and N269LM remain for sale. The aircraft is ex US, Belgian and Israeli forces.
C-47B 26794 LV-BEH Performed an engine test run at Mendoza, Argentina late July. A good step in getting
it back in service.
BT67 33581 PR-MSY Anglo American Mining, seen at Zambezi, Zambia 25jul07, in full Spectrem 2000
Microsurvey cs with this brazilian registration.Ex ZS-ASN, registration cancelled 6
July. The airplane is heavely modified for scientific research. The aiircraft has
carried temporary Brazilian registraions in the past. (PR-MGF & PT-WXE)
C-54A 7458 C-GPSH This Buffalo Airways DC-4 crash landed Carat Lake, (Nunavut) in 29 December
2006, sustaining severe damage to the nose and cockpit section of the aircraft.
Another mishap in the Buffalo Airways DC-4 fleet happend on 05 January 2006,
when C-GXKN overshot the runway at Norman Well after an engine failure.
C-GXKN was later shipped back to homebase at Hay River on a barge. The Nose
section was literally cut of and transported by road to Carat Lake in March 2007. In
July ground crew replaced the WHOLE nose section of C-GPSH.
C-54D 10464 C-GQIA Millardair, Restoration had started on this DC-4, but will not be completed as too
much stuctural corrosion has been found. Engines have been overhauled, and will
probably be up for sale. Hopefully the airframe will find a good home. Seen at
Toronto (Ont.) still inside a hangar in bare metal, 21 August.
DC-4 10547 N3054V Brooks, in addition to last month reported sale of this DC-4, we can now confirm
that it has been delivered and is fully operational out of Fairbanks (AK), noted there
in August.
C-54 10636 C-GDWZ Parked outside at Toronto Pearson Intl Airport (Ont.), in faded Millardair colours and
without engines. Airframe cannot be restored to flying conditions, as too much
structural corrosion has been found.
DC-6A 44633 N48AW Long time resident of the Arizona Wing of the Confederate Air Force XA-TDR, was
cancelled earlier this year from the register but was put back on in July as N48AW.
Reason unknown.
DC-6A 45497 G-APSA This Air Atlantique DC-6 unexpectetly showed up at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in
the early evening of August 16, and disapeared into the spraybay of Hangar 14 at
KLM Maintenance. It is rumoured to be painted into old KLM c/s to feature in a film
about immigration in the 1950s called “Bride Flight”.
Lockheed Howard 18-2347 N442D Somebody is putting life back into this old Howard. The airframe has been derelict
at Little Rock (AR) for 16 years. Has received new engines and props and has
been running. Originally a Lockheed 18 or C-60, delivered in February 1943 as
42-32213, converted to Howard 250 in October 1963.
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