MossRoad
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Back in the early 80s when I was working at the airport, in the fledgling age of overnight airfreight, when FedX was just getting started and UPS had about zero of their own planes, Evergreen would bring an olive drab C130 in to our facility every night to move air freight. Not many private C130s back then. And not many air freight companies whose ramp crews carried side arms in shoulder holsters, either, just sayin.Yep, but they are also primary government contractors for fire retardant air tanker planes. They also contract to fly fire crews in their small jets. Back in the day when I was on an incident management team, I flew in Evergreen planes several times.
They also brought in a 30,000# capacity forklift, which is ridiculously large for air freight bins, seeing how the plane has a total capacity of around 40K#.
I wasn't allowed to refuel it, either. I had to drive the truck up to it, and they did the connection, pumping, and disconnecting.
And it was always dark out. Never saw it in daylight, and they parked on a taxiway, not the ramp.
It was one of the strangest scenarios I ran into over those years.