Here's a PA-18....slide is from 1981, so not super-vintage, but for some reason I dig the scheme. I tend to be a stock-scheme junky, but this one works for me somehow. Wish I could make out the registration. Pretty sure this is AK. Anybody have further info?

This slide if from the early-mid 60s. Not sure of location. Plane was deregistered in the late 60s out of Michigan.

This photo isn't really about the befloated Tripacer. It's about the righteousness of 1970s fashion.
I dig the simple paint on the Tri however...if a comment about the plane must occur.

1966. Location??

BRD wrote:

Didn't recognize this one, so I googled the tail number: it's an Avro Anson V, s/n 12477.
Fitted with a pair of Brit 350hp radials,
so sort of a mini-Beech 18.
This one was apparently was operated by more than one outfit in the Canadian north.
In a museum now, here's a pic:

Thank HR, I'm glad it's still in good shape! Denny McCartney in his book "Picking up the Pieces" talks about rescuing an Anson that went off the runway into a gully at a DEW line station. Trying to repair it in days long high wind blizzards is a pretty interesting (and bone chilling cold) story. Came within an inch of being crushed by it when he was underneath repairing the gear and the wind started blowing it off its supports.

Wasn’t a very good airplane, but worked Ok and was used extensive as a multi-engine trainer in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Didn’t carry enough load. I believe it worked best for aerial survey and photography. Very cheap to buy surplus. Wasn’t usually worth repairing after an incident. Throw away and replace. I don’t know of any still flying.

Here is a photo from the estate of a very close personal and family friend.....in fact one of my earliest aeronautical gurus (so that means he was an important figure in my life going back to age 0-1). He was a pilot right after WW2 and was also related to the man who started Wheeler Airlines in Quebec, Canada (more on that at a future date). He took many trips up there and this was in one of his photo lots from a trip he took in 1947. Its Grumman Mallard NC2957 in the midst of some field repairs in the wilderness of the Quebec. I was always curious about the photo and plane growing up, and having heard him tell stories of the Mallard, I decided to research the plane etc. a bit. After manufacture it was sold to a George F. Ryan of Rhode Island. It was ferried from Montreal to Bethpage, Long Island (back to Grumman) in October of 1947 for repairs to its wing and center section. After passing through different petroleum companies ownership, it ended up in Indonesia where it eventually crashed.
In the photos note the wrinkle on the right wing leading edge. You'll also note, as the plane was only months old when these photos were taken, that it is in factory paint scheme.

Pinecone wrote:Wasn’t a very good airplane, but worked Ok and was used extensive as a multi-engine trainer in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Didn’t carry enough load. I believe it worked best for aerial survey and photography. Very cheap to buy surplus. Wasn’t usually worth repairing after an incident. Throw away and replace. I don’t know of any still flying.

What exactly are you talking about???

At last year's AOPA fly-in in Missoula, there was a Beech Stagerwing present that supposedly flew into the Idaho Backcountry strips in the old days. I'd love to see pictures of that plane in one of those remote grass strips surrounded by mountains. I'd REALLY like to be there when a Staggerwing arrived. What a sight! It's pretty amazing what pilots did in the past with the equipment they had.

Hammer wrote:

Pinecone wrote:Wasn’t a very good airplane, but worked Ok and was used extensive as a multi-engine trainer in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Didn’t carry enough load. I believe it worked best for aerial survey and photography. Very cheap to buy surplus. Wasn’t usually worth repairing after an incident. Throw away and replace. I don’t know of any still flying.

What exactly are you talking about???

He's referring to the yellow Anson V pictured above, a couple of Canadian survey operators used them. The one I recall was Kenting Aviation, my father was an engineer for them in the Canadian High Arctic. I believe Spartan Air Services may have also had one or two in their fleet prior to the deHavilland Mosquitos

Thanks for the photos fellas. Many of them were shot fairly close to home.

I have a few I'd post if I was smart enough to know how.

Flyhound wrote:At last year's AOPA fly-in in Missoula, there was a Beech Stagerwing present that supposedly flew into the Idaho Backcountry strips in the old days. I'd love to see pictures of that plane in one of those remote grass strips surrounded by mountains. I'd REALLY like to be there when a Staggerwing arrived. What a sight! It's pretty amazing what pilots did in the past with the equipment they had.

Here's one from Johnson Creek 2010.

NunavutPA-12, here's one for you Ward Hunt Island about 1989

Zzz wrote:

Flyhound wrote:At last year's AOPA fly-in in Missoula, there was a Beech Stagerwing present that supposedly flew into the Idaho Backcountry strips in the old days. I'd love to see pictures of that plane in one of those remote grass strips surrounded by mountains. I'd REALLY like to be there when a Staggerwing arrived. What a sight! It's pretty amazing what pilots did in the past with the equipment they had.

Here's one from Johnson Creek 2010.

Could have watched it leave the pattern if you hadn't panned to the gal in the yoga pants.

akaviator wrote:

Zzz wrote:

Flyhound wrote:At last year's AOPA fly-in in Missoula, there was a Beech Stagerwing present that supposedly flew into the Idaho Backcountry strips in the old days. I'd love to see pictures of that plane in one of those remote grass strips surrounded by mountains. I'd REALLY like to be there when a Staggerwing arrived. What a sight! It's pretty amazing what pilots did in the past with the equipment they had.

Here's one from Johnson Creek 2010.

Could have watched it leave the pattern if you hadn't panned to the gal in the yoga pants.

Here is the same plane at Cabin Creek in the forties. Strip was 700 ft long at the time. That’s my grandfather talking to a trapper and his wife.
My grandad is in the ID aviation hall of fame and Bob Hoff is now the caretaker of that Stag.
He was kind enough to give me a ride in it several years ago.
I have lots more pics and will dig em out and post em.

Mapleflt wrote:

Hammer wrote:

Pinecone wrote:Wasn’t a very good airplane, but worked Ok and was used extensive as a multi-engine trainer in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Didn’t carry enough load. I believe it worked best for aerial survey and photography. Very cheap to buy surplus. Wasn’t usually worth repairing after an incident. Throw away and replace. I don’t know of any still flying.

What exactly are you talking about???

He's referring to the yellow Anson V pictured above, a couple of Canadian survey operators used them. The one I recall was Kenting Aviation, my father was an engineer for them in the Canadian High Arctic. I believe Spartan Air Services may have also had one or two in their fleet prior to the deHavilland Mosquitos

Correct. Sorry. I should have quoted the original post.

Sierra Victor wrote:

akaviator wrote:

Zzz wrote:

Flyhound wrote:At last year's AOPA fly-in in Missoula, there was a Beech Stagerwing present that supposedly flew into the Idaho Backcountry strips in the old days. I'd love to see pictures of that plane in one of those remote grass strips surrounded by mountains. I'd REALLY like to be there when a Staggerwing arrived. What a sight! It's pretty amazing what pilots did in the past with the equipment they had.

Here's one from Johnson Creek 2010.

Could have watched it leave the pattern if you hadn't panned to the gal in the yoga pants.

Here is the same plane at Cabin Creek in the forties. Strip was 700 ft long at the time. That’s my grandfather talking to a trapper and his wife.
My grandad is in the ID aviation hall of fame and Bob Hoff is now the caretaker of that Stag.
He was kind enough to give me a ride in it several years ago.
I have lots more pics and will dig em out and post em.

That's the best! Thanks for sharing such a cool family photo.

Canadian Tiger Moth....a type not usually seen in this configuration. This was one of the Canadian built "Menasco Moths"....initially powered by American Menasco engines due to shortages of Gypsy engines. Here it still retains its RCAF-standard canopy. Info on the plane currently:
https://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/5272.htm

Not generally a type associated with "backcountry" or off airport action, but this slide of a Luscombe....a T8F according to its N#.....2058B......suggests otherwise. The slide was labeled "deer count."
The plane is currently registered in FL.