It's #WayBackWednesday, and it's a perfect day for an airshow! This beautiful historic image taken near the modern-day NIFC campus was not stored with any written context, but we can deduce a few things from the tail numbers on the aircraft. The plane in the air making a drop is a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress air tanker, used widely to fight wildfires in the 1960s. This particular plane was involved in an accident in 1971, after which it retired to private collection. On the ground to the right, the plane with the tail number ending in "WN" is a Beechcraft Model 18, a light twin-engined aircraft with a broad variety of uses, including firefighting - which may explain why it was produced continuously from 1937 until 1969. We found reports online of this particular plane being certified airworthy as recently as 2014! And who are the spectators, enjoying the show in their distinctive 1960s fashions? We don't know their names, but 50-odd years later, we share their interest in seeing what firefighting aircraft can do! 📸 Photo from the NIFC Archives
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