Photo and Video Gallery

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Manufacturer Plate for N754. Photo USFWS
Photo showing dashboard of N754 including the AeroPC computer monitors. Photo by Debbie Groves, USFWS
Looking forward out front window of N754 in Berner's River Valley, Berner's Bay, Alaska, 2003. Photo by Bruce Conant, USFWS
N754 tied ashore with Yellow-billed Loons in foreground, 2009. Photo: Ed Mallek, USFWS
N754 flying, southeast Alaska, 1984. Photo by Karen Bollinger, USFWS
N754 flying southeast Alaska, 1984. Photo: Karen Bollinger
N754 flying, southeast Alaska, 1984. Photo by Karen Bollinger, USFWS
N754 flying, southeast Alaska, 1984. Photo by Karen Bollinger, USFWS
N754 flying near Berner's Bay Alaska, 1984. Bruce Conant is pilot, Steve Cain in right seat. Photo by Karen Bollinger, USFWS
Fuselage of N754 being moved into Ted Stevens Intl Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, 2017. Photo by Chris Edwards, USFWS
N754 nearly reassembled at Ted Stevens Intl Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, 2017. Photo by Chris Edwards, USFWS
N754 on shore of a lake in the Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, with (left to right) Bruce Conant, Mort Smith (FWS Chief Pilot and head of Continental Surveys), and Jim King, 1979. Photo: USFWS
Bruce Conant and Jim King taking a lunch break on top of wing of N754. Photo: USFWS
N754 on mud, Yukon Delta NWR. Photo by Bruce Conant.
N754 and N748, parked on lake for white-fronted goose banding project on North Slope, Alaska, 1978. Photo: USFWS
N754 during refurbishment at Viking hangar in Victoria, B.C., 1998, Photo: Bruce Conant

Pilot Bruce Conant recording waterfowl observations during low-level survey in N754. Video: Stefan Dobert

Flocks of Brant geese in coastal Mexico. Video: Stefan Dobert

N754 taking off from runway.
Video: Stefan Dobert

N754 taking off from water.
Video: Stefan Dobert

The three historical Project Leaders of the Juneau Waterfowl Project: Bruce Conant, Jim King, Hank Hansen, taken at Trumpeter Swan Society conference in Mount Vernon, WA in 1995. Photo: Mary Lou King
Bruce Conant (left) and Jim King (right), Tanacross, Alaska, circa 1980. Photo: USFWS
Bruce Conant loading ‘rat canoe’, used for duck brood surveys, onto N754, Yukon Flats, circa early 1980s. Photo: USFWS
N754 with New Paint and the Viking Refurbishment Crew upon completion of refurbishment, 1999. Photo: Bruce Conant
Jerry Lawhorn, designer and first test pilot of N754, Van Nuys, CA, 1972. Photo: Volpar, Inc.
Rod Drewien with Trumpeter Swan captured by net off the floats of N754. Photo: USFWS
N754 on Mexico waterfowl survey, Los Mochis, 1986. Left to right:  Rodrigo Michoya, Jim Bartonek, local Mexican biologist, and Jim Voelzer. Photo: Bruce Conant
Mickey Selhay, Alaska Garrett representative, on Peter’s Lake in Books Range, circa late 1970’s. Photo: USFWS
N754 in Russia. Bill Eldridge (center) with Russian authorities. Photo: Jack Hodges
Bruce Conant re-fueling N754 in Homer, Alaska. Photo: USFWS
Jack Hodges and N754 at Cordova airport during a break in bald eagle surveys in Prince William Sound, 1991. Photo: Tim Bowman
Debbie Groves (left) and Bruce Conant (on top of wing) refueling N754. Photo: USFWS
USFWS pilot-biologist Jack Hodges (2nd from left) and USFWS biologist Bill Eldridge (farthest right) with N754 in eastern Russia, celebrating the completion of their first low-level survey flight in July 1992 with their Russian partners, biologist Evgeny Syroechkovsky (farthest left) and navigator Victor Shlyaev (3rd from left). Photo: USFWS
Bruce Conant, N754 pilot, navigates waterfowl survey transects in interior Alaska. Photo: USFWS
N754 flying over interior Alaska. Photo: USFWS
Ed Mallek piloting N754 over interior Alaska. Photo: USFWS
N754 in front of Juneau USFWS hangar before flight, early 2000s. Photo: Bruce Conant
N754 outside hangar with Bruce Conant cleaning windscreen; in Victoria BC, Canada, early 2000s. Photo: Viking Air
N754 before flight to catch and band Trumpeter Swans, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, early 2000s. Photo: Bruce Conant
Bruce Conant holding line to N754 on Minto Lake, Alaska, 1997. Photo: Debbie Groves
Banding white-fronted geese, Old Crow Flats, Yukon, late 1990s. Photo: Jim Hawkings (CWS)

N754 landing on water.
Video: Stefan Dobert

N754 conducting waterfowl survey in Mexico. Video: Stefan Dobert

A typical USFWS aircraft on low-level waterfowl surveys in the boreal forest of Alaska.
Video: Stefan Dobert

Aerial Survey, strut view.