turning final for 07R

both Super DC-3s, N28TN and N30TN, sitting engine-less on the TransNorthern ramp, N29TN is dismantled lying to the right

looking desperately for a new paint job

Taken from a Piper Navajo flying in the vicinity of Palmer, Alaska.

Second production Beech 99 delivered new to Air Wisconsin as N7199N in March 1969. Later flew with Georgian Bay Airways, Texas International Airlines, Bar Harbor Airlines (as N201TC and N208BH), Maine Aviation (N208BH) and Aerofast Airlines in Costa Rica as TI-AYM. Operated by Trans Northern since July 2005.

Originally built as UC-45F 44-47377 and later re-manufactured as C-45G 51-11740. Converted to C-45H and sold onto the civilian market as N9944Z in 1965. Later conversion to a PAC Aero Tradewind was not completed and the aircraft was sold to Volpar, completed as a Volpar Turboliner and registered N349V. Flown by several operators since then including Priority Air Transport, Caribbean Island Airways, Troy Air, Kalitta Air Services and Jackson MS. based Jim Hankins Air Service. Re-registered N404TH in 1979 and N404CK in 1990. Operating in Alaska with Northern Aviation/TransNorthern since 2010.

Rebuilt from c/n 10207 as an R4D-8 for the US Navy as 39080 in 1952. Redesignated as a C-117D in 1962. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code 6C051 in 1977 until 1982. Registered as N2071X in 1983. To Millardair as C-GGKG in 1984 and Trans Northern as N28TN in 2007. Damaged in a gear-up landing at Merrill Field, AK in 2021.

Remanufactured from c/n 4122 in 1949. Registered as N15579, N30000 in 1951, N222HC in 1958, N223R in 1962, N6811 in 1963, XB-NIW in 1996, N567M in 1972, N53315 in 1984 and N30TN in 2004. Still in service with Trans Northern in 2022.

Seen ready for move to hangar to be refurbished to ferry condition for an unnamed museum.

The newest addition to TransNorthern's fleet.