[minnesota_bound]

Why would anyone scrap a WW2 aircraft?

[I cannot think of a name]

“Why would anyone scrap a WW2 aircraft?”

Scrap hell, they rebuild the aircraft completely, install turboprop engines, and set it up to fly another 60 years! Some version of the DC-3 will probably fly into the 2100’s.

[colorado tanker]

They were going to strip it down, install new engines and sell it as a Third World cargo hauler.

[MediaMole]

They weren’t going to scrap it, they were going to turn it into a modern, turboprop cargo plane.

Basler pulls the old engines, lengthens the fuselage, adds modern turboprop engines and makes an old C-47 into an aircraft good for another 50+ years.

They are good people and there is no doubt in my mind that the minute they learned the significance of the airframe, it would be on the way to restoration.