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This page was most recently updated Friday, July 21, 2006.

If you have pictures of historic aircraft, pictures you are willing to share with visitors to AeroKnow.com, please e what you have as 72 dpi attachments, no more than 4.5" x 6:5" to atc@aeroknow..com IF you are willing to grant permission to aviation writers and publishers to publish what you share here at Visitors' Gallery, please say so in the note that accompanies your attachment and understand that I will include your email address so they may contact you for permission in writing. Please include date, place, unit/owner and any other interesting information about the photo(s) you share here.

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When Eric Fromm visited AeroKnow, he permitted me to copy and share the following 14 pictures from his collection These pictures were scanned and placed back into their albums while he watched. They will remain here in the Visitors Gallery until I produce a launch our SPI Chronology of Commercial Flight later this fall. In the meantime, anyone who spent any time as a fence-line visitor or employee at SPI is invited to share pictures of airliners taken at the SPI ramp with earnest webmeister. I would prefer you visit and permit me to copy while you watch, or better yet, donate your pictures to this collection.
Each visitor gallery contributor picture is given an ID number so that on request, I can share larger, higher definition pictures with anyone who supports AeroKnow and has a special request for a better version of anything you see at this web site. Mention the ID number in queries. Your obtaining higher def pictures here is contingent on your agreeing to credit the original photographer and AeroKnow (for example: "William Larkins via AeroKnow") if any of these pictures is published.

Visitor George B. Robinson, Jr., Col. Cal State Military Reserve (retired) is the proud owner of this 1946 North American Navion, s/n Nav-4-434 Clean, nice-looking flying machine; aye?

Here it is in flight with the canopy rolled back a few inches for a little fresh air. Note the tip tanks.
THIS JUST IN . . . George reports he's just purchased a Mignet Pou du Ciel, known state-sidely as a Flying Flea. We eagerly await pictures, mes ami! Bon chance!

Alan Alan, a poet and aviator friend based in England who flight trained in the USA during WWII snapped this Tiger Moth. The N6473 on the rear fuselage is the ex-RAF registration. Current civil reg is G-AOBO. While being towed back to the hangar after a recent flight, a wing collided with a parked car, and suffered significant damage. Let's hope she won't be down for long.

Thanks to Tom Oglin, veteran US Navy, for those six pictures which I scanned from loaned 35mm slides. TO1 - F7U-3P Note the canopy has been removed. This slide reproduced very warm. I will try to get the "red out" with Photoshop and if successful, will re-post it here.	These pictures were taken at NAS Dallas, TX in the mid-50s. TO2 - P2V-4 Neptune	TO3 - interesting lineup	TO4 - Note the underslung wing tank. The final Neptune variant, the -7, may have been the last US aircraft equipped with at manned gun turret. Who can confirm or refute?
TO5 - Convair R4Y	TO6 - Douglas R6D, USN equivalent to the C-118 and the DC-6.	Sincere thanks to Tom Oglin for the loan of these fine photographs so I could scan them and share them with you.

EF1 - ATR-42 (N426TE) American Express. Credit: Eric Fromm	EF2 - ATR-42 (N426TE), American Express. Credit: Eric Fromm	EF3 - Beech 1900D (N202ZK) ex-Mesaba AL flying with Great Lakes Airlines. Credit: Eric Fromm	EF4 - Embraer Brasilia (N129AM) with -- EF, please e me and refresh my memory -- Credit: Eric Fromm
EF5 - Embraer Emb-145 (N????) with American Eagle Credit: Eric Fromm	EF6 - Fokker F-100 (N14088) with American Airlines Credit: Eric Fromm	EF7 - Jetstream 31 N432AM) with Trans World Express Credit: Eric Fromm	EF8 - Jetstream 31 (N435AM) with Trans World Express Credit: Eric Fromm
EF9 - Jetstream 31 (N343TE) with Trans World Express Credit: Eric Fromm	EF10 - Jetstream 41 (N551HK) with Trans World Express Credit: Eric Fromm	EF11 - Lockheed 1011 N????) with ATA arriving SPI for a charter flight Credit: Eric Fromm	EF12 - Saab 240 (N425XJ) with Northwest Air Link, which flew from SPI about one year. Credit: Eric Fromm
EF13 - Saab 240 (N425XJ) with Northwest Air Link Credit: Eric Fromm	EF14 - Saab 240 (N425XJ) with Northwest Air Link Credit: Eric Fromm

THANKS to William Larkins for launching Visitors Gallery with these four excellent pictures.

WL 1 - Beech AT-11 41-9484, based at Hamilton Field, CA, flying over Marin County, CA
Credit W.L. Larkins

WL2 - Cessna L-19A 57-4750 August 1971
The The top surface of the wing suggests a fast overspray of olive drab over white. It would be interesting to know if the US Army continued to fly their L-19s (redesignated O-1 in 1962) in OD while in Vietnam. If the upper wing was overpainted OD following its return stateside, it would also be interesting to know whether or not white wing army O-1s were used as FAC machines in coordination with the USAF and USN.
Credit W.L. Larkins

WL3 - Douglas AD-1,
based on USS Boxer
Credit W.L. Larkins

WL4 - North American P-51H 46-64394 at Hamilton Field, CA
April 1946
Credit W.L. Larkins

As more pictures are contributed, we will add pages, and the AT & 51 pics will be posted at the long-promised "type galleries."

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Last modified: July 21, 2006