slide by E. H. Greenman. - Air North acquired all three Fokker 27s from Swift Aire in 1982 and even adopted main parts of the Swift Aire colour scheme. N423SA came to Brockway / Piedmont Commuter in 1984 and was sold to Burma Airways three years later. In July 1999, the Friendship crashed in Myanmar as XY-AEO.

ex C-FABA. Later on to Salair. Crashed Quetzaltenango (Guatelmala) in 1998 while operating for Living Water Teaching Inc. - photographer unknown

Delivered to the USAAF as 43-15724 in 1944. Sold for salvage in 1947. Rebuilt and registered as NC95460, N95460 after 1948. Spent its civil life operating for airlines in Alaska. To Air North in 1977. Damaged beyond repair when it landed at Fairbanks with an engine fire in 1983 and then stored in the Brooks Fuel area. Towed away in 2019.

This aircraft was photographed on October 29, 2019 being towed down a Fairbanks highway to what was later reported to be nearby Chena Marina Airport. I'll have to check this out during my planned 2021 Alaska trip.

On outdoor display at the museum with "Air North" titles, the Fairbanks-based airline for which this aircraft operated in the mid and late 1970s. The '456' on the fin is a remnant of '456-5555' (presumably a phone number), which this aircraft carried on the fin many years ago. The revised wingtips and engine cowlings and the fully-enclosing landing gear doors show that this is a Hamilton Little Liner conversion, and not a regular Beech 18.

Still wearing Air North titles, this DC-3 languishes in the Brooks Fuel boneyard

On final for 33 at DCA.

Ex Swift Aire, and still in their colors. Later became CP-2165 with Lloyd Aero Boliviano, and crashed on take off from Guyaramerin, Bolivia on December 22, 1994.

Other regns worn include PH-EXF, OB-R1082, and D-AELI.