Johnson Flying Service/Forest Protection TBM Tanker Saved

[Sasquatch]

My buddy in Missoula sent this link regarding a former Johnson Flying Service/Forest Protection Ltd. TBM:

http://missoulian.com/news/local/articl ... 002e0.html
(thumbnail photos of the plane at middle left in the article)

--and--

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-re ... 03286.html


Also, I wasn't even aware of it, but there is a "Museum of Moutain Flying" at Missoula Airport as well:
http://museummountainflying.org/

I gotta get out there and visit it sometime.

--Tom

[TAdan]

So nice to see an Avenger Fire Bomber being preserved.

[helinut]

There is also one perserved at the ACAM Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum painted up as CF-FPL #24 which is a fictousc combination oftwo aircraft FPL as a tribute to the company and #24 as a tribute to the pilot that help so much in restoring the aircraft which was a recovered wreck that belonged to Hicks and Lawerance. the New Brunswick woodsmans museum also has one on display.