Delivered to the US Army with serial 79-23246 this Cobra was eventualy transferred to the USDA Forest Service in July 2003. At the time of uploading this picture its wherabouts are unknown because in March 2011 UH-1H (c/n 12318) was noted wearing the same registration for the same departement.

This Bell Helicopter was delivered as an AH-1E with the serial 78-23061 to the US Army in 1979. It served with the US Army until May 2004 when it was decommissioned and transfered to the USDA Forest Service as N347WN. As such it flew to combat forest fires until April 2011 when the civil registration was cancelled from the register. In September 2015 the Cobra was noted on display at the Texas Air and Space Museum in Amarillo TX.

Operating for the US Department of Agriculture, FEPP (Federal Excess Personal Property), Natural Resource Department Forestry Division. Seen here at Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska. Substantially damaged in a forced landing due to engine failure while conducting a timber survey in 2001. Rebuilt in 2002 and returned to its base at Palmer where I photographed it again with new registration N904AK and new yellow colours with a blue trim.

A former US Dept. of Agriculture C-47 which was part of the small Beale museum collection in late 1980.

Originally delivered to the USAAF as a C-45F, serial 44-86963. Then transferred to the USN as a JRB-4, serial 44588. It was rebuilt in the early 1950s and became an SNB-5, before finally being redesignated as a UC-45J in 1962.

'Men load bags of crop dust onto an airplane for the US Department of Agriculture. In 1952 many farmers lost most of their alfalfa crops due to weevil.' Interesting photo, taken by a local photographer, of an early C-47 (no suffix), 41-38697, converted to top-loading crop duster. The first in a fleet of aircraft assigned a BEPQ (Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine) number. Photo by: Leo Thorne / Uintah County Regional History Center