Aero Spacelines 377MG Mini Guppy, N422AU, at Chico Airport, CA in Jan. 1985. Boeing 377 delivered new to Pan Amercian World Airlines in Sep. 1949 as N1073V. Retired in 1960. To Boeing and then Aero Spacelines. Converted to Mini Guppy c1963-1967. First flight May 24, 1967. To American Jet Industries as N1037V and in Oct 1977 to N422AJ. To Aero Union July 1981. To Erikson Air Crane in late 1980s to transport S-64E/F Skycrane helicopters. To Tillamook Air Museum at KTMK in mid-1990s. Displayed outside Airship Hangar B (Jack Erickson moved his private collection from KTMK to Madras, OR in 2013)

Previously N422AJ with American Jet Industries and N1037V with Aero Spacelines. To Erikson Air Crane circa 1988. To Tilamook Air Museum circa 1994.

Unfortunately I found the Tillamook Air Museum closed as they had just shifted to winter hours, but at least I could get some shots of their Guppy and of Dirigible Hangar B, one of the largest wooden structures in the world. Naval Air Station Tillamook only functioned for a few years from 1942, housing patrol blimp squadron ZP-33. Hangar A was destroyed by a fire in 1992.