Reeve Airways
Fairchild FC-2W2
NC7034
(c/n 136)
Bob Reeve used this
Fairchild to reconnoiter a cargo run from Fairbanks to the battle front
on
the Aleutian Islands while under
contract to Morrison-Knudson. This photo of Bob above is
from the Lars Opland collection and would have been taken whilst
on that trip. NC7034 was
the former "Miss Vico", purchased
new by the Utah Oil Refining Company in 1928. It survives
and awaits
awaits restoration at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, Anchorage,
Alaska.
The rough shot below
of the same machine is from the Ted Spencer collection (via Lars Opland
- Note Noordyn UC-64
Norseman in background).