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PSA DC-3 at Chino

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:41 am
by Fearless Tower
Is this a Planes of Fame aircraft or private individual? It has been parked on the ramp next to PoF but outside the fence line for at least a couple years.

Is the intent to make it airworthy, or is it just going to keep sitting there?

Re: PSA DC-3 at Chino

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:07 pm
by cwmc
It is technically airworthy. It gets run and worked on periodically. I have seen it fly. It belongs to the Friedkin family. They are the founders of PSA.
Chris...

Re: PSA DC-3 at Chino

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:25 am
by Fearless Tower
cwmc wrote:It is technically airworthy. It gets run and worked on periodically. I have seen it fly. It belongs to the Friedkin family. They are the founders of PSA.
Chris...


When you say 'technically airworthy', do they keep it in annual? I walked around it the other day and the airframe generally looks airworthy, although both wheel wells had quite an infestation of spiders possibly other critters.

Was it always a PSA plane? I thought it was interesting that it had the 'paddle' props that you usually only see on C-47s.

Any idea when it last flew?

Thanks,
Andrew