There are similar aged Caribous still flying around the world. In fact there is/or was up until recently a Caribou working in Afghanistan with a private contractor from the USA fitted with turboprops.
It looks really nice in the bare metal finish.
Was it a modified Caribou or a Buffalo?
Just as a not-very-aside – the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, Utah has come to a hard decision, and are divesting several aircraft from their holdings.
They had gathered a lot of aircraft in anticipation of construction of a new display gallery (to be as large as their other two combined), but funding and plans for that have fallen through.
As a result, they need to reduce the number of aircraft outside, as the upkeep for those is destroying their budget. They are looking for other museums (within the US preferably, but outside the US if necessary) to take on the aircraft (they just agreed to move a T-38 to a small museum in St. George, in southern Utah), and then they will even entertain requests from private collectors as a last alternative to scrapping.
One of the aircraft to be given away is this ex-US Army/ex-USAF C-7A Caribou 63-9757.
The first photo is one I took in 9 July 2009, and the others were taken on 7 March 2014.
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