My guilty plesure is the love of Short Skyvans/330/Sherpa/360. Also known as: Shorts Skyvan: The Whispering Nissan Hut. Shorts 330/Sherpa: The Two Tailed Shed, Horse Float, Milk Carton, Winnebago, Box Car, Short Van. Shorts 360: Box, Shoe Box, Barn, Shed, Long Short, The box that the Skyvan came in, Winnabego with Wings, The Irish Concorde :-)
More in this blog: http://theaviationanorak.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/shorts-on-beach.html
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Shorts 450. Looked good.
Never got built but would do well today I think? |
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| A Skyvan with it's big brother |
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| Blown over 330 |
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| Shed formation. G-OBHD been on that many a time. |
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| My photo 360 @ BRS |
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| A nice early Skyvan photo |
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| Pink Aviation Services Skyvan |
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| Pink Aviation Services Skyvan |
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| Pink Aviation Services Skyvan |
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| Neptune Aviation Sherpas |
Good news for the future:
Neptune Aviation has finished their portion of the process of converting two of the U.S. Forest Service C-23B Sherpa aircraft to civilian SD3-60 certificates. The contract Neptune received last year could involve converting another 13 of the former U.S. Army Sherpas. The USFS expects to use them to haul smokejumpers, personnel, and cargo.
Neptune’s project began at the USFS facility in Ogden, Utah where the first two aircraft were done, but is in the final stages of being moved to the company’s facilities in Missoula, Montana for the remaining aircraft.
Field Aviation in Oklahoma City began the process in October, 2015 of converting the analog cockpits in the Sherpas to glass flight decks using the Garmin G950 system
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