USAF Arctic C-45.zip 2024-05-21

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Two skins for Milton Shupe's Beechcraft D18S in the colors and markings of a U.S. Air Force C-45 that was photographed on floats in the late 1940s when it was assigned to Ladd Air Force Base as a utility transport, and as it should have appeared a few years later when painted according to the standards in effect during the early 1950s.

From a photo in an old Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society.

The plane was photographed on floats but probably used wheels and skis at other...

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