If you could own a DC-3...

[Stoney]

There's one for sale in TAP, highest time in the world.

[Eric Friedebach]

He also said FULL airline interior. Bucket seats down the sides don't count !

That’ll be the skeds in a few years.

[Mark_Pilkington]

thats easy, Capt, Eddie Rickenbacker flew the Eastern Airlines aircraft on its last flight to the Smithonian.

I have taken a strong interest in the history of the "Great Silver Fleet" following involvement in our Museum's acquisition of one of Capt Eddie's first 10 DC-2's later purchased by the RAAF
http://aarg.com.au/DC2.htm

We also have an original American Airlines pre-war right hand door DC-3 that was impressed by the USAAC in 1941 and flew with the 5th Airforce and RAAF during Word War 2 as a C50, it was converted to a left hand door after the war but retains its wright cyclones. It is one of the few C50's remaining of a total of 14 impressed.
http://aarg.com.au/DC3.htm

regards

Mark Pilkington

[r1830]

I would buy one of the ex Era Classic dc-3s from Mark Clark at listed at Courtesy. I got my ATP in 1944H and am partial to it, but I would strip the paint and repaint it look like 1944M. I love the polished aluminum. I spent over forty hours polishing the wings on 44M back in 2002. I could barely lift my arms after that.
I flew 44H into Rockford for Mark about a year ago. If I had the money I would buy one.

[RickH]

Yeah Mark, you're right, he did do the last flight. But who was in the left seat when it was delivered to the MUSEUM? Not the airport it flew into.

[Mark_Pilkington]

Oh you mean when it was towed into the Museum through the streets, I have no idea, was Donald Douglas? He died in the 1980s so He would have been alive for that?

regards

Mark P

[Jerry O'Neill]

I would leave it polished metal and fly my friends around in it! No Markings other than the N-Number. There was one just like it in CT, owned by Tamasso Paving Corp. A real beauty!
jerry

[krlang]

Well,

I think I would nose it into the ground, hang a dummy on the tail wheel, paint my logo on the wings so all my buddies could find my house!

[Pat Carry]

I personally like the way the Prairie Aviation Museum in Illinois has painted up their DC-3 in the colors of Ozark Airlines. Now there is a blast from the past! check www.prairieaviationmuseum.org/dc3/

[Jerry O'Neill]

Well,

I think I would nose it into the ground, hang a dummy on the tail wheel, paint my logo on the wings so all my buddies could find my house!

Ouch!
Jerry

[krlang]

Ouch!
Jerry

What! Kermit can but I cant?

[RickH]

Kermit has seen the error of his ways.

[JBoyle]

I had my first DC-3 flight in N1944M (back in1 993 when it was 394CA), one of the planes being offered by Courtsey. From reading their website, it looks like she was used on D-Day. That's really neat.


I surprised no one has mentioned this...the best airline markings for any DC-3 has got to be American. The one at the AA Museum near DFW is a thing of beauty.

Read the early chapters of Ernie Gann's Fate is the Hunter and see if you don't agree.


Non-airline markings....1950-60's USAF scheme of silver with a white roof and tail. My dad flew them as base hack AC back then. Of course WW-II D-Day would be nice....

[TonyI]

After I win the lottery...buy that white and red with them floaty things under it, dats in tha nort east, den I paints it dis color so the locals don't mistake me for a big goose then either a standard klm or eastern but maybe it would go just plane "flat" O.D with the star on the side like the promo pics from way back when.
I'm not sure would this color stand out at OSH or just blend in nowadays?

[img][img]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/super7/airshow/473ab438.jpg[/img][/img]


I'm half Dutch so maybe a little nod to my heritage...and its loud and just slightly obnoxious so I might match a little

Tony