Any snow planes still around the area?
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Snow planes were often fashioned on frames of small air planes, as in this photo, and were popular in the upper Midwest from about the end of World War II until the advent of the modern snow mobile. There were a few commercial models but most were made in home workshops, often from unusual materials that happened to be available
For some time I've been wanting to do a story about snow planes...those exotic looking forerunners of the modern snowmobile. Snow planes were popular on the upper plains of the Midwest, first as a means to travel over the snow, later as a form of recreation. Many were built on the chassis of old airplanes-using the plane's cabin as a passenger compartment, moving the engine and propeller to the rear for push and adding skis.
In Montana ranchers built and used the machines to check on cattle and travel in snowy conditions. In North Dakota hunters used the snow planes to run down foxes on top of...
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