Posted on 12/07/2017 11:51:02 AM PST by Beowulf9
This plane passed over my house today. It flew low and looks like an old time plane. I'm thinking it has something to do with Pearl Harbor Day?
I heard it as it passed over, flying pretty low. Had an old time motor sound and so I ran out to see what kind of plane it was, bringing my camera as I did. Snapped the shot as it was flying over my neighbors yard. Wish I had caught it over my own yard, would've been a better shot.
Anyway going to ask if anyone out there recognizes this type of plane.
It’s a modified DC-3. Look at the square tail. We have one sitting at the local airport.
No. Phoenix.
This is a C-47 Skytrain, I think it’s actually this one on the site, because of the coloring on it. Old No 30.
Here is the website with it’s photo that I found after ones here told me what type of plane this was, I put it into the net with Phoenix after it.
Maybe you could check the net for yours with a Florida after it, or the city you are in:)
https://www.azcaf.org/learn/the-planes/seven-flying-wwii-aircraft/
DC-3. Company I once worked for had one as their first company plane, all dressed up and very nice. In the mid-seventies they sold it to a small country in Africa and stepped up to a Gulfstream-1. Original Gulfstream was a turboprop; a pair of Rolls Royce jet engines swinging big 4-blade props.
Does anyone know where I can get any of those Prat and Whitney stickers???
I have flown more PW engines than anything else. (PT6, PW120,)
In 1984 I flew in one of the first DC-3 ever produced (according to the production data available on the metal strip posted near the exit) from Loikaw, Burma, to Rangoon. It had stopped somewhere and picked up a load of Shan soldiers who bore the most incredible tatoos I’ve ever seen. Sitting in the seat next to me was a Shan who was holding a huge cerise colored orchid, the largest I have ever seen. It was a fascinating trip, although the floorboards was cracked, broken, and in one spot the fusilage was opened. I imagine it is still in service somewhere.
President Donald Trump is the pilot! lol
Thanks for the link. I was driving at the time I saw the plane but it was very similar to yours.
Where’s the plane? Too big a file I guess.
Can I ask admin to remove this, it’s too big.
Where’s the plane? Too big a file I guess.
Can I ask admin to remove this pic, it’s too big.
Air
Less than 200 still flying...*smiles*
C47, DC3, Dakota all the same air frame.
My dad has his father’s “two rising suns” certificate for crossing the International Dateline c. 1942 in a C-47. I recall that the certificate shows two C-47’s and two suns. Can’t find an online example, though.
My grandfather was an attorney who served on MacArthur’s staff and was charged with running the US-Australia lend-lease program. I did my best to channel him when I rode a DC3 from LaGuardia to Martha’s Vineyard in the early 80’s. Very cool plane!
In 1917 at age 17, he signed up for the Army, saying he was 18, and was assigned to the 157th Infantry, 40th Division as a Corporal. We don’t believe he saw combat, but he served well as was discharged as a Second Lieutenant.
On Dec 8, 1942, he re-enlisted and spent most of the war on legal work in Australia. In ‘45-47 (I think) he worked in Japan helping setup the new Japanese government and Constitution. He was in line for promotion to Brig. General, but my grandmother told him either that or her, and he went back to Denver :) Family lore has it that there are a few “cousins” in France, Australia and Japan...
Got one here at Republic in Farmingdale NY that was at Normandy. For 300 odd bucks they’ll take you up in it. Herd a deep growl the other day, looked up and there she was taking off.
DC-3 Warbird...
So cool.
Amazon.
Just put in Pratt and Whitney sticker
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/138-3495042-3966151?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Prat+and+Whitney+sticker
The first time I flew on one of those was in 1953 aas a wee lad going with my parents to New York to board the ship to take us to Istanbul where Ltjg Dad was to be an advisor to the Turkish Naval Academy on Buyuk Ada.
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