Got a question:
I've been seeing posts about air shows for years and I live about 8 miles from both Planes of Fame and Yanks air museums been to other museums in Riverside, Hill AFB in Utah and others.....
..... so how come I never see C-123 Providers anywhere. I rode all the hell and gone all over Vietnam in them and loved the noisy little bastards, but I haven't seen one anywhere since 1968.
I don't think they made more than 300 or so of them and the ones I caught rides on were flown by folks supplying backwoods villages and outposts. One made a more or less regular run from Cam Ranh to Ban Me Thuot and back, flown by rejects from MASH 4077. (At least they looked like it, real cowboys in Hawaiian shirts and Levis.