It was flown by the Canadian military, so you would have pretty good freedom in making up some routes to/from military bases or other random stuff.  I'm actually not sure where they were stationed though.  Their cousin the DHC-5 was stationed at CFB Comox in BC.

Where some of them have ended up.

 

http://www.goodall.com.au/warbirds-directory-v6/de-havilland-canada.pdf

6 hours ago, Mace said:

I read that.  I wonder how it got back to the US in 1975?   Was it flown?  If so where/how?  Aleutians?  Avoiding USSR airspace?  Or was it loaded on an aircraft carrier or cargo ship somehow, and shipped over?  Or flown west, to India, the Middle East and that way?

Assuming the Caribou was fitted with a ferry tank to make the leg from the lower 48 to Hawaii, it would have been pretty straightforward to then island hop across the Pacific to SE Asia.

There was always aircraft carriers.

 

I can't see the CIA using aircraft carriers to ship their airplanes, since that kind of defeats the whole "plausible deniability" thing they were going for with Air America.

12 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

If you want a good challenge, just try to land your Caribou in Tioman (WMBT)

I set off using live conditions (low thick cloud and 30kt winds), and the VOR got me close enough to see the island through the murk. Couldn't see the airfield after several passes, so I decided to return to Mersing.  While I was zoomed in to redial the CDI, the plane decided to roll sideways and I cleverly managed to crash into the hill!  A wing leveller would be welcome, for sure; I know there's that PMS 750 option, but it's not very 'period' - something like a Sperry would do nicely.

 

FWIW I've been to Tioman IRL, but I went by boat and the weather was much nicer 🙂