Located on the nose of the aircraft.

not many times you encounter a flying C.46 in 2012 !

Departing off of Boundary Bay's Runway 13 this afternoon as "Everts (VTS) 905" for home base in Fairbanks. This 66 year old beauty arrived back in mid September for some avionics work.

covered engines to keep the oil fluid enough

returning home to base at 8pm

Flying for Conquest Air, the Convair operator, from Nassau

now used as an Airbnb (together with a B727 and a DC-9)

the combined age of the two cargo sisters below don't even reach a third of the lady above.. VTS650 to McGrath is leaving ANC with a typical low climb rate

taxing out as VTS892 to King Salmon with Anchorage downtown in the background

The final arrival at Sola for the Musum. 01-06-2020 N151 took off from Faribanks, and after ca 30 minutes had to return and go back due to a problem with engine no 3. After approx two hours it took off again and flew to Yellowknife in Canada, which was the final stop before an alomst 15 hours flight across the Atlantic and after a lowpass at Bergen, it came for a lowpass along rwy 18 at Sola, before tunring and arriving rwy 36, shown by these photos. The "QRILL PET ARCTIC WORLD SERIES" is an important sign of how this ferry flight was made possible.

N151 seen at the lowpass it made along rwy 18 before its final lading at rwy 36.. To me personally, it was a tremendous joy to be there and watch it come and arrive after its final flight, led by Robert Everts, the chief of Everts Air Cargo who said "I could gladly have flown this aircaft to Las Palmas" after he had arrived with this beautufil DC-6B repanited as it was when it left BU in 1971 as LN-SUB. Now it has been beautiful restored even inside and will soon be under roof at Sola Air Museum, led by real Aviation enthusiasts. In the pandemic: "The Old one flies, while new ones are grounded