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...C-130 on its tail as it takes off Tuesday afternoon from Kenai Municipal Airport. The C-130 was several miles behind the DC-6 and on approach for a touch-and-go landing. Both classic planes are frequent sights in the sky above Kenai.
...a pair of Division of Forestry Type II crews, the Gannett Glacier crew and the Yukon crew, augmented the response. A DC-6 retardant air tanker has been stationed in Kenai. Neither the tanker nor Forestry?s helicopter have been used to fight...
...the Caribou Hills area. In addition, two Canadian duck planes and a helicopter scooped water up from Deep Creek, while a DC 6 dropped flame retardant to dampen the blaze. Eriksen said firefighters? main focus is still on structure protection. Eriksen said...
...Watching and photographing the fire five minutes after it started, she said she doesn?t think the flame retardant dropped by DC-6 planes is doing a good job. ?(The fire is) out of control,? she said. ?At what point is it going to move this way...
...Boxcars,'' pioneering the shipment of oversize cargo to the Bush. Northern Air Cargo now operates a dozen aircraft, nine DC-6 aircraft and three Boeing 727s. The company has 240 employees and earned $40 million in revenues in 2000. Marge Baker...