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Aug 19^th, 2010 at 9:57am

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When I was near Fort Pickett in virginia, I saw these planes fly over, but I dont know what they were, so I took a picture.
please identify this.

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Reply #1 - Aug 19^th, 2010 at 10:03am

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That would be a Short C-23. Wink

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Reply #2 - Aug 19^th, 2010 at 10:08am

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thanks, I've never seen that before.

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Reply #3 - Aug 20^th, 2010 at 12:51am

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An old instructor once commented when walking by one of those on the ramp "Someone should tell them it flys better if they take it out of the box".

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Reply #4 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 11:09am

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Take a shipping container, bolt some landing gear and wings on it, and you have a Shorts.

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Reply #5 - Sep 4^th, 2010 at 6:08am

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Great work horse and like the Britain Norman Islander will get into and out of places with a good payload a lot of other aircraft can't. Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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