I was supposed to go flying today, but I encountered some maintenance issues that forced me to cancel the flight and ground the airplane so the mechanic could take a look at it. While I was doing the pre-flight before I officially cancelled the flight though, I got a chance to check out an unusual warbird that happens to be based at Spanish Fork; I've actually seen the plane before but never had a chance to photograph it until today! The plane is a Cessna O-2 Skymaster, a military version of the model 337 which served as an observation aircraft as a forward air control (FAC) and psychological operations (PSYOPS) by the US military between 1967 and 2010. The airframe I saw is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
Spanish Fork-Springville (SPK) 9
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| Cessna M377 O-2A Super Skymaster (N102WB). Ex-United States Air Force 67-21398. One easy way to distinguish between military and civilian Skymasters is that military models don't have propeller spinners. |
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| Face-to-face with the Skymaster. This aircraft was riddled with bullet hole patch jobs on the engine cowlings from small arms fire during its service in Southeast Asia. This warbird is now being used as a research platform for radar technologies. |
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