What is the largest aircraft you have seen in Johnson Creek? What kind of large A/C do you think could get in JC?

Twin Otter, though I think the USFS DC3 could use it below gross.

What's that thing that LowandSlow flies? It's a high wing twin of some sort...like an Islander or something.

I know that G&S aviation out of Cascade uses their Islander all over the backcountry. Takes it into places like cabin creek and thomas creek indian cr. etc. i've also heard that the FS took their DC3 into indian creek years ago.

Ford tri motors were used in there a lot in the past and I am sure that Johnson brothers had some Dakotas (DC3) in there as well.

The picture board on the shower house at Johnson Creek used to have a picture of a recip engined DC3 parked on the flight line. The largest plane I've seen there was a turbine converted Grumman Mallard amphibian.

the trislander out of mccall...yeah an islander with 3 not 2 motors...

plus a conquest....

Student BCP wrote:I know that G&S aviation out of Cascade uses their Islander all over the backcountry. Takes it into places like cabin creek and thomas creek indian cr. etc. i've also heard that the FS took their DC3 into indian creek years ago.

Indian Creek used to be a jumper base. Every year they go out and qual or requal on backcountry strips. Last year on the weekend of the supercub fly-in, they buzzed the strip...too many planes on each side to land. Did see the Otter in there after a practice jump south of JC.

Not Johnson Creek, but I've rode in a old FS DC-3 out of Big Creek to Chamberlain and return. Saw the FS "Doug" at Big Creek a bunch of times.

Student BCP wrote:I know that G&S aviation out of Cascade uses their Islander all over the backcountry. Takes it into places like cabin creek and thomas creek indian cr. etc. i've also heard that the FS took their DC3 into indian creek years ago.

the forest service flew all the roofing supplies for Moose creek into Moose with their dc3 last year... There's also a pic of it at JC on the buletin board..

Arround a campfire in Austin last year I heard a story of a touch and go in a citation coming in from the north a few years back.

Never met the guy before or after.

Tim

qmdv wrote:Arround a campfire in Austin last year I heard a story of a touch and go in a citation coming in from the north a few years back.

Never met the guy before or after.

Tim

Hmmmm, I seem to recall that page in the logbook.

Gump

There was a platypus PC-12 at the last J.C. 180 fly-in that I went to.