I bet if I asked real nice she'd even turn around and wiggle that sweet little OC-15 at me... the one that Snowcat Ops asked to see. I may have to make a commitment to her with a nice R&P for her diff from Boggie... but one step at a time. I'll see if I can get away with a cheap downpayment date of a coat of Imron (ok, not that cheap but I'll like her that much more with a fresh skin). 
Then maybe I'll get to know her OC-15...
O.K. let see filed my flight plan. Do my preflight. Schedule fuel stops. Check.
Contact freinds in Alaska with freight lifting chopper. Check wait till day after Christmas. Bye.
You'll have it there from AK in a week and I'll see you at your compound in a month (given the rate of progress my thumb will make on I-80), with it fully restored for a photo shoot on January's "Playcat."
Wait a minute... that's way too professional!
This is supposed to be an adventure... Boggie, we all know you can procure, restore, relocate, and mobilize an army appropriate for a small country!
This type of 'savior-activity' needs to undergo extreme conditions...there needs to be suffering! Maybe some mild starvation, a bout or two of hypothermia, frostbite of possibly a small toe (for effect, probably better to lose the upper portion of the toe) ... that sort of thing. Definitely some vehicles off the road into a ditch, some satellite communications, maybe the downing of a small aircraft, etc...
It also counts to stage some of that too... so if you prematurely ran out of fuel and had to emergency land on another island then that would count!
I'm still hitch-hiking... but I better redo my GPS and Google Maps for your compound!
but your approach might make a better movie.
A couple other interesting points on this one...
1. It's orange, almost guaranteed a blue interior. But you can see the Air Force logo however I haven't ever seen an orange one for the Air Force. The ones made for civilian use were usually painted orange over the blue during a time when they were doing two things: 1) making them straight up for civilans and 2) selling Air Force units to civilians and gov't didn't want them blue...then of course they stopped that and just sold them with the original blue. Maybe that Air Force lettering is showing through where orange has worn off? Not sure. But it also isn't obvious that blue was ever under the exterior.
2. There's always been rumored to be civilian versions that were made without the navigator hatch but every single one I've seen has the hatch (of the 601 model). The angle is shallow on this so it may be there.. but usually the external hatch handle is visible from this angle. So, it may be one that was made for civilian use then taken in by the Air Force and branded but left orange.
So many questions!!??!!?? Where's that airline ticket again??? Oh hell, I'm just going to hitch! Mark the scene with yellow 'snowcat scene' tape and do an onsite forensic study.
Who knows. Interesting though. I better stop with the coffee!
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