AK C-46, DC-6 crew

[LAZYB]

Everts Air Cargo accepting resumes for flight crewmember positions. Commercial multiengine pilot with instrument rating. Minimum of 3000 hours required. Fax resume to Brandi at 907-450-2320.

Everts Air Cargo

 

[bart]

How many Curtiss Commandos are still flying? Can't be that many. We used one for a jump school down south for awhile, when anything other than the engines broke, they had to make the part.

Good to see that someone still operates them, rather than tucking them away in a museum.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

Dang! I better git to gittin 3,000 hours. I'm afraid all the Dumbos will be gone before I get to fly them. They used to operate them out of here until the late eighties, but apparently they couldn't hold on another 15 years. I mean, I have trucks older than that. I'll drive them every day everywhere.

C'mon--classics should definately count for something over economics!

Dan

 

[A Squared]

>>>How many Curtiss Commandos are still flying?

5 that I know of in Alaska. There were some operating in Canada as recently as a few years ago. I have also heard that there are still some operating in South America. When I was in Columbia a few years ago, the locals were referring to them in present tense.

By the way, where did you find that ad, LazyB?

 

[LAZYB]

A Squared

ADN - Anchorage Daily News

 

[bobbysamd]

C-46 ops

Of course, for a great read on C-46s one has to read Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Disasters by Pete Fusco, ISBN: 059509709X, available at amazon.com and elsewhere.

Interesting, to me, anyway, that an ordinary newspaper would have an ad for pilots, although I suspect that ads like that are the norm up there, as is the availability of the wanted pilots.

 

[A Squared]

Re: C-46 ops

Interesting, to me, anyway, that an ordinary newspaper would have an ad for pilots, although I suspect that ads like that are the norm up there, as is the availability of the wanted pilots.

Well, it's not an ordinary newspaper ... or rather, it's an ordinary newspaper in an extrordinary state. Aviation is such an integral part of Alaska that it only makes sense. I bet in Iowa the newspapers have a section in the employment ads for Farm Workers...same thing really.