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de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (CV-2 Caribou, C-7 Caribou)
United States military transport aircraft designations, Army/Air Force and Tri-Service systems - Transportflugzeuge (Cargo) des USAAS, USAAC, USAAF und der USAF bis 1962, Canadian Armed Forces post-1968 unified aircraft designations - Luftfahrzeuge der kanadischen Streitkräfte seit 1968, Swedish military aircraft designations 1926-current - Система обозначений авиатехники ВВС Швеции с 1926 года по настоящее время, United States STOL and VTOL aircraft designations - V/STOL-Flugzeuge der US-Streitkräfte seit 1962
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A reconstruction of one of two C-7s operated by the ACE as of 1985-1987. Led by ex-Air America-pilot William J Cooper, and ex-USAF officers Bob Dutton and Dick Gadd, this was a private venture contracted by the CIA, that mostly operated from ‘the Farm’. Other than the C-123K shot down over Nicaragua, none wore any national markings and – apparently – no other markings or registrations either. Both Caribous retained their – meanwhile badly worn out, and very dirty – ‘South East Asia’ camouflage patterns in tan (FS30219), green (FS34102) and dark green (FS34079) on upper surfaces and sides, and light grey (FS36622) on undersurfaces. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)

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