Hi Jim ;)
 
 JD> North of here at Grey Bull, Wyoming, is an outfit that fights forest
 JD> fires with old and aging aircraft. The company is known as Hawkins &
 JD> Powers Aviation and  they use many round engine birds inlcuding C-97s,
 JD> C-119s (they have more than a dozen ex-Canadian AF C-119Gs), a C-82,
 JD> P2V-7s, DC-6s (C-118) and a B-26. On the turbine side, they have an
 Sheesh, ya are getting old There.  Isnt B-26 the classic Nuke-Dropper?
 JD> ex-USN EP-3 and an ex-Spanish Navy P-3 along with  several ex-USAF
 *E* P3's? Not the ELINT versions???
 JD> C-130A & Bs. At one time they had more than a dozen ex-Canadian
 JD> Lockheed PVs. Very interesting place to visit. It is about 400 miles
 JD> from me  and about 3 years ago, I foto'd them all.
 Oh okay ;)  Ive got pics of alot of the RNZAF aircraft floating around.
 We have had the Skyhawks as fighters for years now - theyre still going
 strong.  We've got about a half-dozen P-3K's for Maritime Survailence -
 NZ has a very large EEZ to patrol, and we have responsibilty over
 Tokaleu, Niue and the Cook Islands militarily.  Nothing in the way of
 the older stuff has flown in a while - except perhaps the Andovers.
 Most of those were sold to a civilian buyer just recently, I heard.
 
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