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Aug 6th, 2010 at 11:25am

CaptainCub   Offline
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This is the photo I used as a reference for one of my recent Caribou repaints:
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I'm curious as to what role an Army plane in this livery might have served? Smiley
 

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Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2010 at 2:40pm

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A little research led to these two links-

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Army/De-Havilland-Canada/0116178/M/ shows it as airframe #7

http://www.dhc4and5.org/BouRev%209.pdf

It appears that it was used for cold weather testing and training.

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Reply #2 - Aug 11th, 2010 at 12:31pm

CaptainCub   Offline
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JoBee wrote on Aug 6th, 2010 at 2:40pm:
A little research led to these two links-

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Army/De-Havilland-Canada/0116178/M/ shows it as airframe #7

http://www.dhc4and5.org/BouRev%209.pdf

Thanks for the help! Grin

It appears that it was used for cold weather testing and training.

cheers,
Joe

 

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