Just before sunset on Valentine's Day, I could not resist this telephoto shot over C-118B Bu.No 131590 coded 'RT-590' stored in the Western International Yard at Tucson. She is registered as N851CE and stored for Air Cargo Express, AK.
Last operated by VS-33 out of NAS North Island, CA, this S-2G Tracker entered store 12th August 1975. She left AMARC in March 2000 to the Consolidated Yard, Tucson and lost her forward fuselage sometime afterwards.
Last operated out of NAS Brunswick, this HU-16C arrived in store on 27th July 1967. She was later sold and went onto the civil register as N7028C. In 2013 her remains were stored in a scrapyard adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB.
Stored with AvSpecs at Ardmore is this former US Navy J4F-2 Widgeon BuAerNo.37726. The F-2 was the 5-seater version of the F-1 for the US Navy. In total 131 aircraft of this version were constructed. This Widgeon came to New Zealand in May 1964.