ski landing gear

The aircraft could be fitted with wheel, float or ski landing gear.

Originally, float or ski landing gear was available through third parties, and later became a factory option.

Floats and ski landing gear are optional.

Later modifications allowed the provision of ski landing gear in order to operate in remote and Arctic regions.

A P-38J was also fitted with experimental retractable snow ski landing gear, but this idea never reached operational service either.

The Soviet Union even experimented with ski landing gear for the P-63A-6, but this never reached production.

One C-1 used to test a variety of engines and cowlings, it was also used for number of experiments with ski landing gear.

The buildings on the base were assembled from five pre-fabricated units flown in by Hercules C-130 aircraft with ski landing gear.

Armament removed, with ski landing gear and provision for JATO rockets.

The plane had been equipped with a combined wheel and ski landing gear, allowing it to land on snow as well as on hard surfaces.

The aircraft flew on 22 December 1930 with Mikhail Gromov at the controls and with ski landing gear.

Four aircraft built with wheel/ski landing gear and JATO gear for Antarctic operations.

They had ski landing gear, JATO and every navigational aid including GPS, Omega and the original but excellent N1 gyro compass.

Later in 1941, the LaGG-3 appeared with new armament options, an internally balanced rudder, retractable ski landing gear for the winter, retractable tailwheel and wing pipes for drop tanks.

Between 1927 and 1930, the company delivered over 300 of the FC-2, the production version of the FC-1 aerial mapping aircraft The aircraft could hold up to five passengers and could also be equipped with float or ski landing gear.

Far up the slope, at the 10,500-foot-high frigid heart of the ice sheet, the U.S. National Science Foundation maintains its remote Summit Station research site, serviced by big New York Air National Guard LC-130 transport planes equipped with ski landing gear for the ice runway.