This Neptune was taken on strength by the US Navy around 1953 as a P2V-5, later modified to P2V-5F and redesigned P-2E in 1962. In the mid-1960s it was loaned to the Army and converted to AP-2E, a designation allocated to draw attention away from the aircraft's role as a SIGINT handling platform (RP-2E would have been more technically correct). From 1967 to 1972 it operated with the 1st Radio Research Company out of Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam on signals intelligence work. Returned to the Navy in 1973 and retired to the museum by 1981

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One of the first three Caribous received by the US military, constructed as a YAC-1 and first flown with test registration CF-LKU-X. The trio were delivered to the US Army in October 1959. In August 1961 it became the first of type to be deployed to Vietnam and was used as the South Vietnamese president's aircraft. Leased to Air America in 1962. In 1967 it was assigned to HQ USAF Logistics Command as a YC-7A at Wright Patterson AFB, returning to the Army Aviation Test Board, Texarkana, TX in 1970. In 1975 it flew with the Army Helicopter Demo Team (Silver Eagles), joining the museum in 1983

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Photographer Jon Proctor

700 TAS 94 TAW AFRES. Previousy US Army, transferred to USAF 1967-01 for Operation Red Leaf. Later sold to Spanish Air Force.

Withdrawn from use in 1965 and scrapped. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Two of TAA's 'new' DC-3 freighters parked at Essendon on a Sunday afternoon. VH-TAE was built to a USAAF order as 42-92274 but delivered to the RAAF as A65-29. Sold to TAA and registered on 27 September 1946. Re-registered and renamed VH-SBL 'Mt Hagen' in 1960 for TAA's New Guinea 'Sunbird' services. Sold to Air Niugini in 1973 as P2-SBL. Returned to the Australian Register as VH-SBL in 1981 and still current. VH-AEZ, in the background, served with the USAAF as 42-23949 until sold to TAA and registered in Australia on 2 May 1945, named 'Currie'. Became VH-EWD with East-West Airlines in 1955.

Built in 1946. Current on the register in 2025.

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By Apr '47: Completed; modifications for presidential use included extra fuel tanks for range of 4400 miles, three closely-spaced windows on starboard side for stateroom; it could carry 25 passengers. Jul '47: TOS USAF. Oct'50: Most historic flight when President Truman flew to Wake Island to discuss the Korean situation with Gen. MacArthur. May'53: Retired as the President's plane and assigned to Special Air Mission flights. 1965: Retired and flown to Patterson Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH for display at the Air Force Museum.

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Photographer John Baxter

'People standing on the dock at the fish plant in Leaf Rapids, Manitoba.' This does not seem to be the CKA3 seaplane location. The fish plant was built in 1972, whereas the Beaver was built in 1951 and served with La Ronge Aviation Services from February 1969 until July 1979, when it sank in Michael Lake, Saskatchewan. It suffered further damage during its extraction by helicopter. The wreck was sold to Allen Airways, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, but destroyed by fire on 30 April 1980. Photo by: Cheryl Hebert / University of Winnipeg Archives

Registered CF-QOQ when delivered in May 1950, this Beaver later went to the New York Daily News registered N1488V. It returned to Canada as CF-QOQ again in 1962, flying with several airlines in Quebec and Newfoundland. Rebuilt in 1984, it was sold to Bellair in 1985 registered N64396. Sold in 1992, it was re-registered N915MC to a private owner. The floatplane was written off in a crash at Lake Hood, AK on June 7, 2009 that was well documented on video. Rebuilt, the aircraft is current in Alaska registered N70JE at the time of upolading.