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Douglas DC-3, American Airlines. "American Airlines", одна из крупнейших современных авиакомпаний, основана в 1934 году как преемник "American Airways". За свою долгую историю авиакомпания спонсировала разработку многих самолетов. Если DC-2 создавался по спецификации компании TWA, то DC-3 проектировался как DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) для новой авиакомпании. Образованная 11 апреля 1934 года, "American Airlines" поначалу использовала устаревшие самолеты Curtiss Condor со спальными местами, взятые в лизинг у "American Airways", но вскоре обзавелась своими DC-2. Глава "American Airways" Кирус Р. Смит по телефону заказал Дональду Дугласу 20 удлиненных DC-2 в спальном варианте - DST. Позже "American" сократила заказ до восьми DST, первый из которых был поставлен 8 июня 1936 года, дополнив его, однако, 12 вариантами (на 21 пассажира), ставшими известными уже как DC-3.

Мировая Авиация 223

Этот самолет (PH-ALI) был поставлен компании KLM в сентябре 1936 года. Экипаж перегнал самолет в Великобританию за день до вторжения немцев в Голландию, 9 мая 1940 года. Позже перекрашенный в камуфляж, самолет эксплуатировался компанией BOAC.

Мировая Авиация 114

В 1939 году все DC-3 перевезли 98 000 пассажиров. К этому же году компания KLM располагала 22 DC-3, которые работали на 61 авиалинии и летали в 29 стран. Несколько DC-3 успели перелететь в Великобританию во время оккупации Голландии нацистами и эксплуатировались BOAC между Бристолем и Лиссабоном.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

Douglas DC-3 (c/n 2036) PH-ASK "Kemphaan" of KLM in the neutrality colour scheme adopted in September 1939, before capture by the Luftwaffe in Norway.

Мировая Авиация 33

Самолеты PH-ASK, приобретенные голландской авиакомпанией KLM, были ранней моделью DC-3. 15 мая 1940 года часть этих самолетов была захвачена Германией, хотя некоторые DC-3 успели переправить в Англию. Впоследствии они использовались на маршруте Лондон - Лиссабон (позже продлен до Гибралтара).

Мировая Авиация 218

Этот C-47A с французской регистрацией F-GEOM использовался компанией "Stell Air" в 1982-1991 годах. Один ее самолет, F-BYCU, разбился в 1984 году под Танжером, Марокко.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

DC-3 N54542 was built as a C-47B and served with CBS and Outboard Marine Corporation before being acquired by the Experimental Aircraft Association.

Air Enthusiast 1972-10 / ??? - The 40-year-old newcomer: British Caledonian Airways

The venerable Douglas DC-3 played a vital part in the formative years of several of British Caledonian's predecessor companies, including Morton Air Services, whose G-AHCV shown here had previously been part of the BEA fleet.

Air Enthusiast 1973-03 / ??? - Martinair Holland: "A sheep with five legs" /Airline in outline/

Inevitably, the venerable Dakota has figured prominently in the Martinair fleet. PH-SCC being one of five operated at various times.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-01

Douglas C-47A-80-DL OO-AWL in pre-1951 colours

Мировая Авиация 218

Парк C-47/DC-3 компании "Ethiopian Airlines" отличался высокими показателями аварийности, однако аварийность еще возросла на завершающем этапе эксплуатации самолетов.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

In natural metal finish, and with signs of previous airline use still discernible, C-47 serial 816 of the Egyptian Air Force.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

In service with Israel Inland Airlines Arkia, this Douglas C-47 carries markings for operation during the Suez campaign, 1956.

Авиация и Время 2007-02 / Р.Уррибаррес - Посланцы Фиделя (Кубинские авиаторы в Анголе. 1975-1976гг.) (1)

В кубинской Транспортной эскадрилье в Анголе в первое время использовались бывшие португальские самолеты, такие как C-47 и N.2502A

Мировая Авиация 113

Этот C-47A-65-DL получил оборудование для эвакуации приземлившихся десантных планеров "с лета". Самолет летел на высоте нескольких метров над землей с выпущенным крюком, который подцеплял буксирный трос планера, поднятый над землей с помощью импровизированных кронштейнов. Таким способом много ценных десантных планеров были спасены для повторного использования.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

Douglas C-49K (ex-DC-3-G202A NC30038, c/n 6340) serving October 1943 with North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

Dakota III (C-47A c/n 9325) of No 267 Squadron, RAF, in 1944, when operating from Araxos airstrip, Greece.

Мировая Авиация 230

Транспортный самолет Dakota C.Mk III (FD857) из 267-й эскадрильи RAF, совершавший вылеты в Югославию из итальянского Бари. Эмблемой эскадрильи был крылатый конь Пегас, изображенный в носовой части фюзеляжа.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

Dakota IIIU serial 960 (c/n 12267 ex-USAAF 42-92464) of RCAF 9(T) Group at Vancouver, 1950.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

Dakota IV serial 6892 serving in 1983 with No 44 Squadron of the South African Air Force, based at Swartkop.

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

A ski-equipped C-47 of the 1st Escuadron Antarctico, Fuerza Aerea Argentina, based at Marambio.

Air Enthusiast 1999-11 / N.Gillespie - 'Deep Freeze' (1)

Douglas R4D-5 12418 Que Sera Sera ‘XD-8’ of VX-6, US Navy, 1956. Inset: scrapview of 12418, main undercarriage in retracted position.

АвиаПарк 2010-02 / В.Кондратьев - Дальневосточные десанты

"Дуглас" C-47 из 54-й ТАД 12-й ВА, на котором был вывезен из Мукдена захваченный в плен советскими десантниками 21 августа 1945 года бывший император Маньчжурии Пу-И

Air International 1984-02 / Model enthusiast

C-47 of the Force Aerienne Beige with nose-mounted NASARR radar to train F-104G pilots.

Мировая Авиация 64

Праздничный первый полет первого DC-3. 17 декабря 1935г.: в очередную годовщину первого полета самолета братьев Райт в 1903 году прототип Douglas DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) совершил свой первый полет из Кловер Филд, Санта Моника, пилотом был Карл А. Ковер. DST, переделанный в пассажирский самолет, получил обозначение DC-3 и выпускался во время Второй мировой войны в большом количестве.

Aviation Historian 1 / M.O'Leary - The tragedy of Flight Three

In his distinctive white overalls, a TWA groundcrew member marshals a Douglas DST (note the upper cabin windows) into position, probably just before the entry of America into the Second World War. The airline introduced the DST and its 21-seat non-sleeper variant, the DC-3, into service in the summer of 1937.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

Один из первых экземпляров пассажирского самолета Douglas DST
The Douglas D.S.T. Commercial Transport (two 850 h.p. Pratt & Whitney "Twin-Wasp" engines).

Авиация и Время 2010-06

Пассажирский самолет Douglas DST

Flight 1938-07 / Flight

A Douglas DC3 with one of its Twin Wasps stopped and the Hydromatic airscrew fully feathered.

Мировая Авиация 33

Первый прототип семейства DST/DC-3 поступил в авиакомпанию "American Airlines". Он имел номер NC14988.

Flight 1936-01 / Flight

SLEEPER TRANSPORT: The new Douglas D.S.T., which will carry sixteen passengers as a "sleeper transport" and twenty-four in the ordinary way, on test at Santa Monica, California. With two 930 h.p. engines - presumably the latest Wright Cyclones - the D.S.T. has a maximum speed of approximately 215 m.p.h.

Мировая Авиация 33

Плавные обводы, высокое качество и полностью металлическая конструкция были одними из многих факторов, сделавших DC-3 феноменально успешным самолетом.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2015-12 / Знаменательные даты декабря в истории авиации

Flight 1939-03 / Flight

THE GOLDEN GATE: A distinctly striking picture of one of United Airways Douglas D.C. is flying over San Francisco Bay and the Treasure Island Exposition ground, which will be seen behind the fuselage of the machine. The Exposition has actually been laid out on an artificial island and this will afterwards be a civil landplane and flying boat base. P.A.A. are already operating therefrom.

Flight 1939-08 / Flight

An American Airlines D.C.3 over Niagara, with the American falls on the left and the real Niagara on the right.

Flight 1938-09 / Flight

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY appears to wave a greeting to an American Airlines Douglas DC3 as it flies past Bedloe's Island, outside New York Harbour. The famous figure is to have an extensive overhaul, inside and out, in preparation for the World’s Fair.

Flight 1940-02 / Flight

MANHATTAN'S SKYLINE: The air traveller to New York's new municipal airport obtains a totally different view from that seen at ground level.

Flight 1936-08 / Flight

FOR TRUNK ROUTES. Douglas DC-3 monoplanes have been ordered by American Airlines, United Airlines, K.L.M. and T.W.A. For night operation, when the machine is usually known as the D.S.T. (Douglas Sleeper Transport), sleeping accommodation for up to fourteen passengers is provided. By day there are seats for twenty-four. The new Wright Cyclone Model G or the Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp engines are variously specified. With Cyclone G2s, which are supercharged to give 850 h.p. at 5,800 feet the maximum speed is 213 m.p.h. The cruising speed at 10,000 ft. is 180 m.p.h. Structurally the machine is similar to the well-established D.C.2. Externally it may be distinguished from that machine by forward continuation of the fin.

Flight 1939-04 / Flight

COMING IN: The machine shown about to land with flaps and wheels lowered is Douglas D.C.3.

Мировая Авиация 33

Этот новый самолет, принадлежавший авиакомпании "American Airlines", был из первой партии DC-3 (1936 год). DC-3 использовались для перевозки пассажиров и почты.

Aviation Historian 33 / M.Wickstead - Italy's forgotten airlines (3)

Aerea Teseo acquired a fleet of nine C-47s from January 1947, using them until operations were suspended in February 1948, when Salpanavi took the airline over.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-07 / Whitchurch /Gone but not forgotten/ (10)

Regular visitor to Whitchurch was Aer Lingus Dakota EI-ACH.

Air Pictorial 1976-10 / G.Endres - Air Afrique

Air Afrique's sole Douglas DC-3. TU-TCL, seen at Abidjan in 1970, was purchased in 1966 and is still in service.

Air Pictorial 1977-08

Dakota 3 G-ANAF (until recently mothballed at Duxford), f/f at Exeter 28/6/77 after complete rebuild by Westcountry Aircraft Servicing Ltd., was d/d to Air Atlantique, Jersey, on the same day

Air Pictorial 1994-08 / World Airliners

Douglas DC-3

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-08

Douglas DC-3 G-AMPO is one of two passenger-carrying examples flying with Air Atlantique

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / S.Piercey - The great warbirds display

A rare sight these days; a formation of three Dakotas, comprising Air Atlantique's G-AMPO, ex Martin Baker DC-3 G-APML and Aces High's KG374.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / S.Piercey - The great warbirds display

Two Dakotas disgorging parafoils.

Air Enthusiast 2006-01 / P.Howard, B.Hickox - Mercy Angels of Angkor /Airliners and air services/ (2)

The section of road at Kompong Thom used as an airstrip, awaits the an Air Cambodge DC-3. Note the unserviceable CAC example awaiting assistance and parked off-road.

Air Pictorial 1976-03

Concorde 02 F-WTSA meets Air Charter West Douglas DC-3 N300ZZ at San Francisco during a demonstration tour in October 1974

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: SNIAC, BAC Concorde - InternationalInternational - 1969

Air Pictorial 1961-10 / Spotter's Notebook

The nationality mark 90 has been allotted to the Congo and is seen here on Air-Congo's Dakota 3 9O-CUK in Katanga.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1947 / All the world's aeroplanes

A Douglas DC-3 Commercial Airliner (two Pratt & Whitney Twin-Wasp engines).

Мировая Авиация 33

После Второй мировой войны в авиакомпании "Air France" было много бывших военных самолетов C-47, переданных в гражданскую эксплуатацию. Из самолетов гражданских модификаций был один DC-3A, полученный еще до войны, и три DC-3D. Модель 3D была новой гражданской моделью, созданной на базе военных C-47.

Мировая Авиация 230

Авиакомпания «Air France» давно занимается доставкой почты, купив еще в августе 1933 года французскую почтовую авиакомпанию «Aeropostale». После войны «Air France» использовала для доставки почтовых грузов самолеты Douglas DC-3.

Aviation Historian 14 / J.Stroud - Beirut: Lebanon's Propliner Paradise /The John Stroud Archive/

DC-3 JY-ABW was one of five used by Air Jordan, formed in 1950 with Airspeed Consuls to operate services from the Jordanian capital Amman to Jerusalem and Cairo.

Flight 1938-01 / Flight

WHAT AUSTRALIA BUYS: The first Douglas D.C.3 to be put into Australian service flying over the city of Melbourne. The machine is named Kurana and is used by Airlines of Australia on the Brisbane-Sydney service.

Air Pictorial 1995-01 / T.Walker - Air Malawi - 30 years of African service /Airline Profile/

Douglas DC-3 VP-YKM (later prefixed 7Q), one of two operated by Air Malawi when it was formed.

Aviation Historian 39 / L.Hellstrom - Air Sud Kasai. The National Airline That Never Was

Douglas C-47A OO-AWN at N’Djili Airport, Leopoldville, in 1961. The aircraft was acquired by Belgian national airline Sabena in November 1950; it operated Belgian Congo services until 1960, when it went to Air Congo on the African nation’s independence (Sabena had a 30 per cent holding in the new airline). During April-May 1961 OO-AWN was operated by Air Sud Kasai, before being returned to Sabena that June. After a brief spell in Spain, it went to the Nigerian Air Force as NAF-307 in 1969.

Aviation Historian 10 / B.Taghvaee, G.-R.Rahbaryan - The Shah's Skyhooks

Hamid Bayat (right) was the IIGAU chief mechanic and is seen here with one of the UH-41As at Shiraz Airport in 1967. In the background is a Douglas C-47 of Iranian airline Air Taxi Co, which began operations in 1958, becoming part of Pars Air in 1970 before the company’s name was changed to Iran-Aseman Airlines in 1980.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Cessna CH-1 / YH-41 Seneca - СШАUSA - 1953

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-12 / Personal album. Civil

Formerly Emerald Airways Dakota 4 EI-APB Ulster Maid, G-AMWV is seen here at Speke on July 28, 1968, in the livery of the short-lived Air Ulster. Delivered to the airline in December 1967, it was withdrawn from use in July 1969.

Air Pictorial 1988-02 / N.Mercer - USAir - Stretching across the Continent

All American Airways' first Douglas DC-3, N91221, in the airline's original livery. The aircraft was later re-registered N141A before being sold in 1958

Air International 1992-09 / T.Todd - Frankfurt Airport: Born again, but for how long?

First landing of American Overseas Airlines at Frankfurt, still under US control, May 18. 1946.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2018-03 / В.Морозов - Принцессы пятого океана

Типичные американские стюардессы в униформе конца 1930-х - начала 1940-х гг. На заднем плане виден самый распространенный пассажирский самолет того периода - Дуглас DC-3

Aviation Historian 14 / J.Stroud - Beirut: Lebanon's Propliner Paradise /The John Stroud Archive/

Aryana Afghan Airlines was formed in 1955 by the Afghan government with assistance from the Indamer Company of India, which was bought out by Pan Am in 1957. Behind the DC-3 is Avro Tudor 4B “Super Trader” G-AHNI Trade Wind of Trans Arabia Airways, lost over the Turkish-Soviet border in 1959.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Tudor / Type 688/689 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

Aviation Historian 3 / D.Stringer - Fly America! (1)

Bonanza Air Lines DC-3 N491 at San Diego, California, in May 1959. The airline’s distinctive livery of this period incorporated a vivid orange fuselage band and fin.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-02 / Personal album. Civil

DC-3 9M-ANF of Borneo Airways about to land at Kuching on April 24, 1965.

Aviation Historian 29 / R.Lezon - Southern Exposure

Mosquito VL613 at Moron after its arrival in Argentina on October 2, the local newspapers reporting it as “the end of a misadventurous flight”. Partly obscured by the Mosquito’s fin is a Braniff Airways Douglas DC-3 sent from the USA to demonstrate Sperry autopilot equipment to the Argentinians during the Buenos Aires exhibition.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Mosquito PR - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1941

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-04 / Douglas Dakota G-AMPO /Preservation Profile/

G-AMPO in service as a commuter airbus with BAC;

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

BEA Dakota III G-AGJZ, later named John Stringfellow, was sold to Ghana in April 1960.

Air International 1983-06 / Model enthusiast

Air Pictorial 1955-12 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

B.E.A. is experimenting with different styles of fuselage and tail markings. This Pionair, G-AMDZ "Frank Barnwell", has the usual fin-sited Union Jack removed to above the freight hatch and a large red band with white B.E.A. across the fin and rudder. Viscount G-AMOZ also has a new B.E.A. tail marking.

Air-Britain Archive 1982-02

'Pionair' days - several of the wartime BOAC Dakotas later saw service with BEA in the Pionair class. Here G-AGHL "Lanoe Hawker" takes on baggage at Ronaldsway for a mainland route in the mid fifties.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

Another BEA 'Pionair' class Dakota was G-AJIA "Sir John Alcock" seen at Ringway on 14.4.57. This aircraft was donated to Air Mali by the British Government 3.61 and became TZ-ABC.

Мировая Авиация 236

DC-3/C-47 стали основой парка транспортных самолетов союзников в годы войны и активно использовались для грузоперевозок после ее окончания, но не отличались удобством погрузки/выгрузки. Грузовая дверь была неудобной, а пол кабины на земле находился в наклоненном положении.

Air International 1996-07 / I.Goold - Heathrow (1)

By the 1950s, air cargo had become an important part of BEA’s activities. Pepsi-Cola vending machines are seen here being loaded onto a DC-3 for transporting from London to Jersey.

Air Pictorial 1999-07

The picture of BEA Dakota G-AGHS in circa 1949-50

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

Refuelling BEA’s Dakota III G-AGHU, later sold in Hong Kong as VR-HDQ.

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

Delivered to BEA in late 1946, Dakota III G-AHCY was destroyed in a crash at Saddleworth, Yorkshire, on August 19, 1949.

Air Enthusiast 2003-03 / Round-Out

Also at Heathrow, Overseas Aviation's G-ALHP, in August 1961. Among the aircraft behind are BEA 'Pionair'-class Douglas Dakota G-AHCX and an Air Safaris Vickers Viking.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Canadair CL-2 / CL-4 Argonaut - КанадаCanada - 1946Vickers Viking / Valetta - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-07 / 1996 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide (1)

Air Atlantique’s C-47B Dakota 4 G-AMRA as it appeared some years ago, in the livery of British Island Airways.

Мировая Авиация 218

"British Midland" (позже "Derby Airways") получила свой первый DC-3 в 1955 году и эксплуатировала эти самолеты на протяжении 1960-х годов. Самолеты часто использовались для доставки двигателей Rolls-Royce по всему миру - один из заводов "Rolls-Royce" находился в Дерби.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v3

Douglas DC-3.

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

BOAC’s Dakota III G-AGIU readied for the service to Lisbon. When transferred to BEA the Dak was named Edward Busk.

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

Formerly KJ802 in the RAF, this Dakota TV served with BOAC from early 1945. In February 1950 it was sold to Aden.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / A.Wood - Back to the Farm

BOAC Dakota IV G-AGKE.

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

BOAC Dakota III G-AGHF, formerly FD824 in the RAF, joined the airline in 1943. In March 1951 it returned home to the USA.

Air International 1996-07 / I.Goold - Heathrow (1)

Dakota G-AGNG of BOAC, seen flying over the huge ‘cement factory’ during the final construction phase of the Heathrow complex. G-AGNG was a Lend-Lease transport,formerly KK216, which was transferred to the company on January 21, 1945.

Aviation Historian 19 / E.Wild - The graveyard shift

Built as a C-47B and operated by the RAF as KN212 (and later XF749), DC-3 G-AMZF was acquired by Jersey Airlines in 1960, and was absorbed into the British United Airways fleet in August 1963, the same year it is seen here at Gatwick.

Aviation Historian 19 / E.Wild - The graveyard shift

The author photographed G-AMZF over the distinctive Fort de Querqueville to the west of Cherbourg Harbour from his own DC-3 during an (extremely) unofficial photo-sortie in May 1964. In 1966 the aircraft was sold to a new owner in Canada as CF-RTY (later C-GCUW), its long career finally coming to an end in the early 1980s.

Мировая Авиация 218

В авиакомпании "Canada Air Lines" самолеты DC-3/C-47 заменили Lockheed Model 14. DC-3 эксплуатировали многие компании из Канады.

Flight 1939-11 / Flight

CIVIC PRIDE: A corner of the huge crowd which attended the official opening of New York’s Municipal Airport at North Beach, Long Island. The cost of constructing the airport is said to have been 40 million dollars

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / P.Jarrett - Grapevine

Sunday, September 18, 1983 marked the last flight of Douglas DC-3 VR-HDB Betsy from Sydney, Australia, to Hong Kong, where it has joined the Hong Kong Museum of Science and Technology.

Air Pictorial 1956-03

N17318, a C.C.A. DC-3 is spotlighted in the accompanying letter from reader Powell in Kenya .

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-01 / G.Endres - Czechoslovakian Air Transport since 1920 (1)

Fokker-assembled Douglas DC-3 OK-AIE of CLS was one of four used on the “Blue Danube” service.

Aviation Historian 34 / M.Wickstead - Czechoslovakia's "Carefully Serving Airline"

Seen here at Copenhagen in the late 1940s or early 1950s, OK-WDU (c/n 9798) was one of CSA’s many ex-USAAF C-47As, joining the airline’s fleet in September 1947. This aircraft went on to have a remarkably long career, later serving in France as F-GEOM and operating as G-OFON and G-DAKK in the UK until the early 2000s.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-02 / G.Endres - Czechoslovakian Air Transport since 1920 (2)

Douglas DC-3 OK-XDH of CSA under tow by tractor.

Aviation Historian 39

Pan Am Lockheed L-049 Constellation N88860 Clipper Courier at Prague on June 16, 1946. A Douglas C-47A of CSA is in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Lockheed Constellation C-69 / C-121 - СШАUSA - 1943

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-07 / Personal album. Civil

Channel Airways' Dakota III G-AMDZ seen at Rochester, Kent on July 17, 1966. Formerly RAF Dakota KG507, this aircraft was first registered G-ALWD to BEA and named Frank Barnwell, after the Bristol aircraft designer, in December 1950. Following service with Channel Airways, 'DZ was withdrawn from use at Southend in March 1970.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-03

The last operators of the Dakota G-AHCU were Channel Airways who took it out of service in 1966. It was photographed engineless and rudderless at Southend on 24.3.68.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / J.McHard - Far East assignment (2)

In an effort to prevent the CAT aircraft from falling into Communist hands, the company was wholly re-registered in the USA. All Nationalist flags were overpainted with the Stars and Stripes and the Chinese XT numbers were replaced with N----C registrations.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-01

The Civil Aviation Administration's ZK-AXS

Air-Britain Archive 1985-03

The C-47B ZK-AUJ wearing Civil Aviation Administration titles.

Air Pictorial 1992-01 / G.Jones - Zurich - Swiss airport excellence

The classic lines of DC-3 HB-ISB, one of the pair operated on nostalgia flights from Zurich by Classic Air.

Air International 1992-10 / G.Endres - Cyprus Airways: From regional carrier to international operator

One of six DC-3s that flew all Cyprus Airways services in the airline's first four years.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-12 / Personal album. Civil

In 1968 Dakota 4 G-AMPP was being used on Dan-Air’s weekday Cardiff-Bristol-Liverpool-Newcastle service, and is seen here at Speke on July 5 of that year. Delivered to the airline in 1961, this Dak was withdrawn from use in September 1970 but is currently preserved as G-AMSU.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

Delta Air Transport's first Dakota OO-VDF (1763) still in basic Schreiner colours and KLM stickers.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-04

Delta's OO-AVG (2020) with KLM Cargo stickers

Air-Britain Archive 1981-02

OO-CBU (903) at East Midlands after delivery to Kestrel Aviation. It languished for nearly two years before finally being scrapped.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-01

Delta C-47 OO-GVG "Round Table" (2096) at Schiphol on 30.10.72.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / R.Stitt - Midland Memories (1)

Derby Airways crews taking in the flying show at Nottingham Airport, 1964.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / R.Stitt - Midland Memories (1)

Derby Aviation's first Dakota G-ANTD on the apron in front of the Municipal Hangar in April 1955, fresh from conversion to civilian standards at Exeter. To the rear are Messenger G-AKKO, an Auster and a former Royal Navy Anson I.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Auster J/1 - J/5 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945Avro Anson / Type 652 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / M.Oakey - Fifty not out!

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / M.Oakey - Fifty not out!

PH-DDA's crew includes two delicious stewardesses in period-style uniform. Members of the Flight Operations department take turns at manning the aircraft, on a sort of Dakota rota.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / M.Oakey - Fifty not out!

PH-DDA is painted silver with dark blue cheatlines. The words "50 Golden DC-3 Years” appear in gold above the windows on the port fuselage side, with "Dutch Dakota Association” in white on the starboard.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / M.Oakey - Fifty not out!

PH-DDA's engines roar into life at Eindhoven Airport on April 23, 1985 as a cabinload of journalists prepare for a flip.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

A DDA stewardess and PH-DDA's reflection at Eindhoven on July 1985

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

PH-DDA bearing an appropriate slogan.

Air Enthusiast 1998-03 / N.Lees - Birds of Passage

C-47B G-AGNG served Eagle Aviation from August 1949 until January 1951 when it joined Britavia. It crashed in Canada in January 1956 while serving with Quebecair.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-03 / Personal album. Civil

Douglas C-47B Dakota VP-KHK of East African Airways, before it was named Kongwa Pioneer. It is seen at Nachingwea circa 1950.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

East African Airways’ Douglas C-47 VP-KJU RMA Sagana II at the opening of the new Dar-es-Salaam Airport.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-03 / Personal album. Civil

This view of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, was taken from C-47B Dakota VP-KHN of East African Airways in December 1952 during a flight from Nairobi to Dar-es-Salaam.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-04 / Douglas Dakota G-AMPO /Preservation Profile/

G-AMPO in the red, white and blue of Norwich-based Eastern Airways.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-02

ET-T-2 in the first colour scheme with small registration and high cheatline.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-02

ET-T-3 with only the national flag on the tail and large registration. The Empress descends as Haile Selassie waits.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-02

ET-T-4 in the second colour scheme with lower cheat line.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

C-47A ET-T-14 at Prestwick in July 1947 after conversion by Scottish Aviation.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

Also at Prestwick after conversion, ET-T-15. Both these C-47s have the original high cheat-line combined with very large registration letters.

Aviation Historian 37 / M.Wickstead - Bringing Africa together (1)

Seen here in a later iteration of the EAL colour scheme, with a white upper cabin but still carrying the airline’s colourful tail markings and Lion of Judah emblem, ET-T-15 went on to be re-registered ET-AAT during the reorganisation of Ethiopia’s civil register in 1962. It was written off in a take-off accident at Lideta in November 1963.

Aviation Historian 37 / M.Wickstead - Bringing Africa together (1)

Douglas C-47A ET-T-15 (c/n 13483) originally served with the RAF as KG666, and was delivered to EAL in June 1947. In August 1951 it was leased by Swissair and operated as HB-IRH, after which it was put back into EAL colours at Zurich-Kloten, where it is seen here after repainting, and was returned to EAL service in September 1952.

Aviation Historian 38 / M.Wickstead - Bringing Africa together (2)

Douglas C-47 ET-ABX disembarks passengers at Addis Ababa in 1969; EA used the type for more than 40 years

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

ET-T-18 while operated by Sultan Airways Ltd.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-04

The only photo we have seen so far of Gemini ET-P-14 (left) and Beech D18S ET-P-8 (right). An EAL C-47 and a Norseman are also visible.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Beechcraft Model 18 / C-45 Expeditor - СШАUSA - 1937Miles Gemini M.65 / Aries M.75 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945Noorduyn C-64 Norseman - КанадаCanada - 1935

Air-Britain Archive 1986-04

Apparently we have here two views of the same aircraft but in different colour schemes. However, a mystery surrounds them, since the owner Carl Gustav von Rosen assured the compiler that his Bonanza was never repainted and that the lower photograph shows the correct version. Note the mispainting of Ethiopian marks as ETP-12. This aircraft returned to Sweden with von Rosen and as SE-CDW has been confirmed as c/n D-1866. The light-coloured aircraft is therefore something of a problem. It is clearly marked as ET-P-12 on the upper V-tail surface and there is an EAL C-47 in the background, so the likely location would be in Ethiopia. Note however the presence of yet another Bonanza on the right, this one with a two- colour tailplane. Perhaps several aircraft ex-stock in India were available simultaneously and this one, earmarked for von Rosen, was eventually replaced? Could the location thus be Aden, or even in India?

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Beechcraft Model 33/35 Bonanza - СШАUSA - 1945

Air-Britain Archive 1986-02

ET-T-5 still in camouflage and marked ET-T5 under the wing.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-02

An incomplete view of ET-T-8, earmarked for the Emperor and probably a C-47B-11.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-12 / Personal album. Civil

Seen at Gatwick's general aviation terminal in May 1967 is Fairey Surveys’ Dakota 4 G-AHCT. It was withdrawn from use in January 1972.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-03

The well-known Fairey Surveys Dakota G-AHCT at White Waltham 11.7.69 was eventually retired in 1972 and ended its days on the fire dump at Ringway Airport.

Aviation Historian 36 / M.Wickstead - "Faucett"

Douglas C-47B c/n 32737 served with the RAF as KN368 before being one of the first examples of the type acquired by Faucett in late 1946, with which it was registered OB-PAT-200. When Peruvian civil markings were reorganised in 1964, it was re-registered OB-R-200 before being taken on strength with the Peruvian Navy in 1967.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-01

Replacing VQ-FAH on lease in October 1967 was ZK-AZA which became VQ-FBF and is seen here wearing the final version of livery with Fiji titles and the sunfish on the tail. On some aircraft (chiefly Herons?) the dots above the 'i's were outlined rather than solid.

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

VQ-FBF in original colours at Nandi 3.68

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

VQ-FBJ in 1970 colours

Air-Britain Archive 1981-01

From M.W.Prime's collection comes this shot of VQ-FAH undergoing a major check, presumably on return to NZNAC 10.67 and before reverting to ZK-APK since the Fiji regn is partly removed and the airline titles masked for spraying out.

Мировая Авиация 11

Даже сегодня DC-3 выглядит настоящим авиалайнером. Комфорт пассажиров, безопасность и цельнометаллическая конструкция - вот ключевые аспекты его популярности.

Aviation Historian 3 / D.Stringer - Fly America! (1)

Strike up the band! - the inauguration of air services to smaller cities in the USA with the DC-3s of the local feeder airlines was cause for celebration. Empire Air Lines DC-3 NC62375, City of La Grande, was one of several used by the Boise, Idaho-based airline, which received its feeder certificate from the CAB in 1946.

Aviation Historian 18 / J.Stroud - Arctic Assignment: Propliner proliferation in Finland /The John Stroud Archive/

Bearing neither Aero O/Y nor Finnair titles, only the legend “Finnish Airlines” along its fuselage, Douglas DC-3 OH-LCC Tiira stops for refuelling at Kemi during John and Patricia’s flight “up-country” from Helsinki-Vantaa to Rovaniemi on April 26, 1956.

Aviation Historian 18 / J.Stroud - Arctic Assignment: Propliner proliferation in Finland /The John Stroud Archive/

Finnair crew from DC-3 OH-LCC deliver the mail to Rovaniemi (the "official home of Santa Claus").

Aviation Historian 18 / J.Stroud - Arctic Assignment: Propliner proliferation in Finland /The John Stroud Archive/

The Finnish Post Office bus is loaded from Finnair DC-3 OH-LCC, named Tiira, at Rovaniemi in northern Finland, on April 24, 1956. The bus, which provided airport-to-town transport, crossed the Arctic Circle on each run.

Aviation Historian 18 / J.Stroud - Arctic Assignment: Propliner proliferation in Finland /The John Stroud Archive/

Ten DC-3s were operated by Aero O/Y and Finnair from 1946, nine of them ultimately going on to serve with the Finnish military.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-07 / P.Jarrett - Grapevine

The 41-year-old Douglas DC-3 acquired from the Finnish Air Force last August by the Dutch Dakota Association flew into its new home at Schiphol Airport on April 18, 1984, leading a formation of four Fokker S-11 Instructors and a North American Harvard.

Aviation Historian 29 / S.Sumbodo - Garuda's 'Hamble Boys'

By 1957 Garuda’s Hamble Boys were becoming Hamble Men, gaining full captaincy on Garuda’s fleet of Dakotas and Convairliners. Seen here at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport in May 1957 is C-47A PK-GDW, one of the 22 acquired from KNILM in December 1949. It later served with Garuda subsidiary Merpati Nusantara.

Air Pictorial 2000-05 / UK & Irish airlines since 1945 (5)

C-47A G-AKJH, utilised during the early years of Gregory Air Services.

Air Pictorial 1977-05 / J.Cook, M.Hooks - Gulf Air /Airline History/

Dakota G-AMVA at Abu Dhabi, its livery revealing that it then belonged to one of BOAC's associated companies

Aviation Historian 29 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (1)

Hunting operated a total of nine DC-3s throughout the 1950s, including G-AMHJ, acquired by the company in April 1957. Presumably the organisation’s DC-3s were in use on other tasks in May 1959, hence the charter of G-AMSV, not a Hunting-owned machine, for the author’s Iranian survey trip.

Aviation Historian 29 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (1)

Another of Hunting’s own DC-3s was G-AMSJ, which joined the company in late 1953, but spent regular periods in the Middle East operating with the Iraq Petroleum Company. It is seen here at Heathrow in 1959.

Aviation Historian 30 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (2)

Built as a C-47B-30-DK at the Douglas factory at Oklahoma, G-AMYW initially entered RAF service as KN497 with No 525 Sqn at Montreal in April 1945. After serving with Nos 238 and 10 Sqns in the UK, it received its civil registration and joined Silver City Airways in early April 1953, but was acquired by the Hunting organisation that August. It is seen here at Croydon in November 1954.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-04 / Douglas Dakota G-AMPO /Preservation Profile/

G-AMPO in the colours of Jersey-based Intra;

Air International 2001-07 / A.Wright - Independed Survivor /Commercial/

Douglas C-47B, G-AMPY, was operated by Jersey-based Intra Airways in the 1970s.

Air Pictorial 1957-03

Like T.W.A, in Ethiopia, Transocean Airlines are withdrawing their older equipment from Iranian Airways . Dakota 4, EP-ACK, which together with EP-ADI, was reported homeward bound, is shown here after exchanging the heat of Persia for the snows of Goose Bay, Labrador. They have been replaced by Convairs EP-ADX and 'ADY.

Aviation Historian 10 / D.Stringer - Against All Odds /The Story of America's Supplemental Airlines/ (2)

The list of successful supplemental airlines included Johnson Flying Service of Missoula, Montana, where DC-3 N24320 is seen here in 1965. In addition to regular charter operations, Johnson was famous for providing firefighting support for the US Forest Service; its fleet included two Ford Tri-Motors and a DC-2 for “smoke jumper” operations.

Мировая Авиация 11

DC-3 (на переднем плане) и DC-2 принадлежат компании KLM - первой компании за пределами США, эксплуатирующей DC-3.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933

Flight 1936-11 / Flight

MODERN TRANSPORT: K.L.M.'s first D.C.3 at Croydon last Saturday. So far as this view is concerned the only really noticeable difference between this machine and its predecessor is in the fin form. The fin now extends along the fuselage in order to give better directional stability.

Flight 1936-11 / Flight

SHADOW AND SYMMETRY: The smooth lines of the Douglas D.C.3 are well shown in this Flight photograph of K.L.M.'s Ibis taken at Croydon last Saturday.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / M.Fife - The Great Air Race

The start at Mildenhall, actually RAAF Laverton. From left to right. Comet replica “G-ACSP", Bruce Dwyer's Stearman (representing Fairey Fox G-ACXO), “DC-2" PH-AJU, Comet replica “G-ACSS" and Miles Falcon “G-ACTM".

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Comet / D.H.88 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934Miles Falcon M.3 / Hawcon M.6 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934Stearman PT-13 / PT-17 Kaydet / Model 73 (Boeing-Stearman) - СШАUSA - 1934

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / M.Fife - The Great Air Race

The non-flying replica Comet G-ACSS with the “KLM DC-2" in the background, at RAAF Laverton. Flown in the 1934 race by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, and sponsored by A. O. Edwards, the Comet left Mildenhall at 0634hr on October 20, 1934, and arrived at Melbourne 70hr 54min later, winning the speed prize.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Comet / D.H.88 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / M.Fife - The Great Air Race

“DC-2” PH-AJU, actually Australian Airlines’ restored DC-3 VH-ANR, at RAAF Laverton.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / M.Fife - The Great Air Race

A reconstruction of the start of the race. Seen here at Laverton are the taxying replica of D.H.88 Comet G-ACSS, “DC-2" PH-AJU, the static replica Comet “G-ACSP" and a Stinson Reliant doubling as Lockheed Vega G-ABGK. Nearest the camera are another Reliant and Airworld's Cessna 195 VH-AVZ.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Cessna 190 / 195 Businessliner - СШАUSA - 1947De Havilland Comet / D.H.88 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934Stinson Reliant - СШАUSA - 1933

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-08 / Personal album. Civil

A gaggle of DC-2s with KLM’s PH-ALH in the foreground. Junkers-Ju 52 HA-JUA carries the new company logo MALERT. German Fw 200-V2 Condor D-AETA Westfalen was the second prototype aircraft and was fitted with three 720 h.p. BMW 132G-1 engines.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Focke-Wulf FW.200 Condor - ГерманияGermany - 1937Junkers Ju.52/3m - ГерманияGermany - 1931

Air Enthusiast 1996-11 / K.Wixey - Incidental Combatant (1)

Ramp scene at Amsterdam-Schiphol June 25, 1938, dominated by Fw 200 V2 D-AETA ‘ Westfalen ’ of DLH. Alongside it is Fokker-assembled Douglas DC-3 PH-ARZ ‘Ijsvogel' of KLM. To the left is Curtiss T-32 Condor G-AEZE of International Air Freight and to its right KLM Lockheed Super Electra PH-APE ‘Ekster’.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Curtiss Condor 18 - СШАUSA - 1929Focke-Wulf FW.200 Condor - ГерманияGermany - 1937Lockheed Super Electra 14 - СШАUSA - 1937

Flight 1938-03 / Flight

OFFICIALLY READY. The terminal building and hotel of the Basra land-water airport at Margil, with a K.L.M. Douglas D.C.3 on the tarmac and an Imperial Airways Short Empire boat at her moorings in the Shatt-al-Arab River

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Short Empire / S.23 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1936

Flight 1939-06 / Flight

SUMMER AT SCHIPHOL: This aerial view of Amsterdam's airport gives an idea of the tremendous number of people who are encouraged to come out during the weekend and on fine evenings in the summer. On the tarmac axe half a dozen assorted Douglas while on the right are F.22’s and F-36’s, which are now used for joy riding. The Schiphol runway extensions to the north are now complete.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fokker F.XXXVI / F.XXII - НидерландыNetherlands - 1934

Flight 1938-02 / Flight

A photograph of the general maintenance shops, one of many devoted to different items of equipment. The machine on the left of the picture will be recognised as one of the D.C.3s used by K.L.M. on their Batavia service

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933

Flight 1939-11 / Flight

TEMPORARILY IMMOBILISED: Douglas DC.3s and DC.2s of the K.L.M. in a hangar “somewhere in Holland.” It is hoped that most of these machines will soon be able once more to go about on their lawful occasions.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-10 / Personal album. Civil

Two detail photographs of the KLM Douglas DC-3 PH-AST Tapuit. The last of KLM's DC-3 fleet, 'ST went into service after March 1939. On May 10, 1940 this DC-3 was destroyed by German bombs at Schiphol Airport.

Flight 1938-06 / Flight

A DIFFERENT D.C.3; The first of K.L.M.’s Douglas D.C.3 twenty-one seaters with G.100 Wright Cyclones and Curtiss fully-feathering variable-pitch airscrews. The engines are rated at 1,100 h.p. for take-off and use 90-octane fuel.

Мировая Авиация 223

В годы войны этот самолет "Ibis" компании KLM летал в британской BOAC с регистрацией G-AGBB. Самолет 1 июня 1943 года был сбит над Бискайским заливом германским Ju 88; погибли все находившиеся на борту 17 человек, среди которых был и актер Лесли Ховард.

Aviation Historian 33 / M.Wickstead - Italy's forgotten airlines (3)

The sheer post-war ubiquity and availability of the C-47 in Europe meant that much of the workload of Italy’s post-war airlines was undertaken by the type. LAI operated some 26 examples from 1947 until 1957, when it was put into liquidation and its assets acquired by the government for redistribution to the state-owned Alitalia.

Air Pictorial 1988-02 / N.Mercer - USAir - Stretching across the Continent

Earlier, in 1968, Allegheny took over Lake Central Airlines which had begun operations with DC-3s (N18667 illus.) before moving up to turboprop Convair CV-580s and Nord 262As

Air International 1994-12 / R.Shaw - Sojourn to the Land of the Midnight Sun

Landgraedslan’s DC-3C TF-NPK seen coming ‘over the fence’ at Reykjavik airport. Icelandair pilots happily fly the aircraft free of charge.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-02

OO-CBX (917) wearing Linair titles at Brussels.

Aviation Historian 33 / M.Wickstead - Italy's forgotten airlines (3)

Having arrived in Italy with the USAAF’s 47th Troop Carrier Squadron, with which it participated in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, C-47 c/n 9101 was acquired by Linee Aeree Italiane (LAI) in late November 1947 and given the Italian civil registration I-LINC. Sadly, it crashed near Trento in December 1956.

Aviation Historian 20 / N.Stroud - Heathrow. The Roaring Forties /The John Stroud Archive/

Delivered to the USAAF in December 1943 as 42-100826, C-47A c/n 19289 participated in Operation Market Garden with the 92nd Troop Carrier Squadron in September 1944. After the war it became one of a batch of surplus C-47As supplied to Polish national airline Polskie Linie Lotnicze (LOT), with which it served as SP-LCE.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-04 / Douglas Dakota G-AMPO /Preservation Profile/

G-AMPO in the Macedonian Aviation livery which it wore from November 1972 until August 1975;

Aviation Historian 14 / J.Stroud - Beirut: Lebanon's Propliner Paradise /The John Stroud Archive/

With the Lebanon Mountains rising to the east in the background, Middle East Airlines DC-3 OD-ABD has its engines run up on the ramp before departing the newly-completed airport at Khalde, south of the capital’s centre. Parked in the distance are DC-3 OD-AAM and Languedoc OD-ABJ of Air Liban and a USAF C-54 Skymaster.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bloch MB.160 Languedoc - ФранцияFrance - 1937Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Aviation Historian 4 / J.Forsgren - Keeping the Peace

Nine Cessna Bird Dogs and one Bell OH-13 of the Air Service component of the United Nations Observation Group In Lebanon (Unogil) share the ramp with a Middle East Airlines Douglas DC-3 (and one other DC-3) at Beirut International Airport during the Lebanon crisis of 1958.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bell H-13 Sioux / Model 47 - СШАUSA - 1945Cessna L-19 / O-1 Bird dog / Model 305 - СШАUSA - 1950

Aviation Historian 11 / N.Stroud - Kill 'em, Chill 'em & Fly 'em Out!

A line-up of MMA DC-3s at Perth in 1968, including VH-MMK (middle aircraft), which was used briefly for Air Beef operations. The Air Beef DC-3s underwent a radical weight-reduction programme; auxiliary fuel tanks, de-icing equipment and other items were removed to make them the world’s lightest DC-3s, as confirmed by Douglas.

Aviation Historian 11 / N.Stroud - Kill 'em, Chill 'em & Fly 'em Out!

The proprietors of Fossil Downs cattle station in Western Australia show off a pair of prize bulls beside Douglas DC-3 VH-MML of MacRobertson-Miller Airlines in October 1957. Built as C-47B serial number 44-76613 before serving with the RAF as KN470 during World War Two, the aircraft was one of three used by the airline on the joint Air Beef venture with Australian National Airways during 1946-62.

Aviation Historian 11 / N.Stroud - Kill 'em, Chill 'em & Fly 'em Out!

DC-3 VH-MML at Wyndham on an early Air Beef run. The aircraft had an adventurous career; after its RAF wartime service it was returned to the USAAF in 1947, going on to serve with the Pakistan Air Force as H-717 during 1947-54. It was sold to Field Air Services at Karachi and registered G-ANMA, MMA acquiring it in April 1954.

Aviation Historian 29 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (1)

Morton Air Services was part of British United and G-AMSV joined the Morton fleet in 1962, operating in a variety of roles, from pure cargo to ferrying Ford Motor Company executives to and from the Continent until 1968, when Morton was absorbed into British United Island Airways; 'MSV was acquired by Air Atlantique in March 1982.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-12 / Personal album. Civil

Douglas Dakota IV G-AOUD in the livery of Morton Air Services at Gatwick on July 8, 1967. In January 1969 'UD was sold in the USA and became N4848.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-02

ZK-AOD in Mount Cook colours on a rather wet Christchurch apron on 18.6.71.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-04

Also at Whenuapui, NZNAC's ZK-AQS after conversion to freighter status in the sixties.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-04

ZK-BBJ "Skyliner Gisborne" at Whenuapai.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-01

ZK-AYK in Skyliner configuration during the sixties.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-03

On a wet day at Hamilton, NZNAC's C-47 ZK-AOJ "Piopio" takes on fuel.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-04

An early photo of NZNAC C-47 ZK-AQU "Pihoihoi" at Whenuapui.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-03

NZNAC's C-47 ZK-APB as "Popotea".

Aviation Historian 3 / D.Stringer - Fly America! (1)

A pair of DC-3s of Minneapolis-based North Central Airlines, the more appropriate moniker for Wisconsin Central Airlines, which was renamed in late 1952 .

Aviation Historian 26 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (3)

Paul Collins was a highly experienced aviator, having served with the Allied Expeditionary Force in France during the First World War, later flying for motion pictures and the US Air Mail Service. He was also instrumental in establishing Northeast’s transatlantic ferry route during the Second World War, as seen here.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-06 / Grapevine

Air Atlantique’s Dakota IV G-AMPY at Coventry on April 10, 1986. The aircraft is being sponsored by American airline Northwest Orient for the 1986 display season, and has been resprayed in the red, white, black and silver scheme of a Northwest DC-3 of about 1936. With its cabin in passenger-carrying configuration G-AMPY will take part in a special anniversary flypast, in company with a Northwest Orient Boeing 747, at the North Weald Fighter Meet on the weekend of June 28-29.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-12

ERICH GANDET’S plate shows another Dakota, G-AMPV, painted in Northwest colours, landing at Basle, in Switzerland on May 8, 1986.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-10 / J.Meadows - Flying for fun (5)

Otis Spunkmeyer Air, a division of a chocolate biscuit company, operates this beautiful DC-3 on sightseeing tours over the San Francisco Bay area. Based at Oakland, California, the DC-3 flies one-hour tours with fine wine and various titbits for eating (cookies included, presumably). N97H is flown regularly by Timothy Braidy and Dale Collier, with hostess Melody Smith looking after the passengers.

Aviation Historian 3 / D.Stringer - Fly America! (1)

An Ozark Air Lines DC-3 over Springfield, Illinois, in 1951. Ozark owed its existence to the failure of another feeder, Parks Air Lines (Parks Air Transport). The CAB cancelled the Parks certificate and awarded the bulk of its routes to Ozark, the last of the 13 permanently-certificated locals to receive its certificate.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

The arrival of Douglas C-47B AJ-APT causes a sensation among the locals at the remote airstrip at Chitral on February 18, 1962. The aircraft was built at Douglas’s Oklahoma City factory with the USAAF serial 43-49607, but was delivered to the RAF in December 1944 to serve as Dakota IV KK177 in India with Nos 194 and 76 Sqns. It remained in India after the war, becoming AP-AEI with Orient Airways in 1949 before being transferred to PIA in March 1955 to become AP-AJT and named City of Rawalpindi.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-12 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Pakistan International Airlines’ Douglas C-47 AP-AAC arriving at Rawalpindi on January 20, 1959.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

The 20th Century meets the Middle Ages - the DC-3 is inspected by the local population at Chitral. Reportedly, the aircraft’s registration had been changed from AP-AEI to AP-AJT as the “I” in the former would have meant referring to it with the phonetic-alphabet word “India”, which the Pakistani authorities deemed unacceptable, relations between the two nations being very poor. The DC-3 ultimately went to Air Taxi of Iran as EP-AGZ in 1968 but was written off in a non-fatal take-off accident at Ahwaz in southern Iran in April 1970.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

Chitralis greet the DC-3 after its landing at the remote valley airstrip. To provide perspective, the terrain in the background was virtually the same on the facing side of the valley.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

One of the magnificent - and previously unpublished - photographs taken by John Stroud in Pakistan in February 1962.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

John’s photograph taken from the cabin while the DC-3 threaded its way through the 12,100ft (3,690m) high Lawarai Pass shows how little margin for error there was during this crucial part of the flight. It was strictly enforced that the route, which took less than an hour to complete, could be flown only in fine weather conditions.

Aviation Historian 12 / J.Stroud - Over the Pass and Down the Valley... /The John Stroud Archive/

A magnificent photograph of the majestic Hindu Kush taken as the DC-3 headed into the Chitral Valley from the Lawarai Pass.

Aviation Historian 4 / D.Stringer - Fly America! (2)

Pioneer Air Lines Douglas DC-3 N78021 on the ramp at Dallas Love Field in August 1950. Two years later, in a move that irritated the CAB, the airline replaced its entire DC-3 fleet with larger Martin 2-0-2s, but was forced to return to a predominantly DC-3 service. Pioneer merged with Continental in 1955.

Air International 1987-12 / Talkback

Photographs from John Visanich showing the DC-3, ex SU-BFY of Pyramid Airlines and re-registered PH-DDZ for the Dutch Dakota Association. The photographs were taken at Luqa on 7 May 1987, on which day it was flown for the first time with its Dutch registration.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-05 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Douglas DC-3 SU-BFY, recently bought by the Dutch Dakota Association for long-term preservation, at Malta awaiting preparation for its flight to the Netherlands.

Air Pictorial 1986-01 / J.Stroud - Air Affairs

Qantas Douglas DC-3 VH-EBU and de Havilland Canada Otter VH-EAZ parked sideways-on at Wau. The level floor of the traffic office gives some idea of the aerodrome's slope

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter - КанадаCanada - 1951

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-06 / S.Piercey - Dakota's Rest

Dakota G-AGZA before the accident. Formerly serving in the RAF as KG420 the aircraft had been in service less than nine months at the time of the crash.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-03 / Grapevine

The Aces High Dakota "G-AGHY" / G-DAKS seen landing at Yeovilton last year.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-02 / Personal album

Sabena Dakota OO-AUW taxies out from the Croydon apron on March 15, 1947.

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

DC-3C OO-AUY (C of R no.647) seems to have had a relatively uncomplicated history with SABENA for almost twenty years. It is shown in the colour scheme adopted in 1956 at Turnhouse on 6.4.57

Мировая Авиация 223

Бельгийская "Sabena" до начала войны успела получить только два DC-3.

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

A line-up of four SABENA Dakotas at Brussels in the mid-60s including in the foreground OO-AWK (684).

Flight 1940-04 / Flight

THE NEWSPAPER SERVICE. A Belgian aeroplane loading up at an aerodrome "Somewhere in the South of England."

Flight 1939-08 / Flight

Three Redhill V.R. Fairey Battles with the Sabena Douglas D.C.3 and the good Imperial “E” class ship Eddystone making the foreground.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Armstrong Whitworth Ensign / A.W.27 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938Fairey Battle - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1936

Air Pictorial 1976-03 / J.Wegg - Saudia - Saudi Arabian Airlines /Airline History/

Dakota HZ-AAP in early green/white scheme at Bahrein, 28/2/60

Air Pictorial 1976-03 / J.Wegg - Saudia - Saudi Arabian Airlines /Airline History/

Resplendent in the current livery, Dakota HZ-AAX, seen at Jeddah in December 1974, is believed to be the first aircraft ever delivered to Saudia

Flight 1938-04 / Flight

Overweather: One of A.B.<...>transport's Douglas D.C.3s.

Aviation Historian 16 / K.Honey - In the Land of Black Gold

Former Africa ir Douglas C-47A ZS-DDC is prepared for another flight in Libya. The author explains: “I found out several years later that DDC had been operated by Silver City in 1946 with the British registration G-AIRH, but we certainly had no idea of that at the time”.

Aviation Historian 16 / K.Honey - In the Land of Black Gold

Named City of Guildford in Silver City service, C-47B G-AMZB (c/n 26980) was acquired by the company in October 1957 and is seen here on change-over day at one of the many oil camps.

Aviation Historian 16 / K.Honey - In the Land of Black Gold

A joyful photograph showing the reaction of the local schoolchildren at Kufra to the arrival of G-AMYX. Note the wrecked pre-war Nissen-style hangar in the background, by 1958 one of the few mementoes of the original Buma airfield, built by the Italians after the nation’s capture of the strategically important Kufra in 1931.

Aviation Historian 33 / M.Wickstead - Italy's forgotten airlines (3)

Trieste-based SISA operated a total of six C-47s - I-COSA, I-LUNA, I-NAVE, I-SOLE, I-VARO and I-VELE - during its brief post-war existence, four of which are seen here. Nearest the camera is I-SOLE, which joined SISA in May 1947 and later served with ALI-FR and LAI (as I-LOTT) before joining the Italian Air Force in 1955.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-12 / N.Lees - You can't keep a good man down

Sivewright Airways C-47B Dakota G-AGNK ‘Lancastria’ was operated by the Manchester-based airline from July 1949 until March 1951. It went on to serve with BEA until withdrawn from use in 1964.
Visiting Sivewright Airways Dakota Lancastria and Air Malta Airspeed Consul G-AIKZ at Luqa, Malta.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Consul / AS.65 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949

Aviation Historian 17 / B.Turpin - Out on a Lympne (1)

The starboard mainwheel hauls itself into the engine nacelle, its port-side companion already nestled away, as G-AMWW clatters away from Lympne in May 1959. By the time the author joined the Skyways company in late 1965 it was operating four Dakotas - G-AGYZ, G-AMSM, G-AMWW and G-AMWX (written off that December) - on coach-air services.

Air Pictorial 1999-10 / M.Wickstead - Sobelair /Airline Profile/

Like many post-war fledgling airlines, war-surplus C-47s formed the backbone of Sobelair’s operations. In the photo, crews pose for a group picture in front of OO-SBC, previously KG645 with the RAF and registered to the Belgian operator in May 1947.

Air Pictorial 1999-10 / M.Wickstead - Sobelair /Airline Profile/

Like many post-war fledgling airlines, war-surplus C-47s formed the backbone of Sobelair’s operations. In the photo, founders (l to r) Jean Creteur, Robert Kegeleirs, Gaby Creteur and engineer M Teirlinck, with the company’s second DC-3 in December 1946.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

Several faces of one Dakota. After two years in Spain returned to Trans World Leasing serving with South Coast Air Services from 3.65.

Aviation Historian 23 / B.Turpin - 748 into Africa

Southwest Airways DC-3 ZS-DJZ clatters overhead at the airstrip at Rosh Pinah before landing. The 748 took off from Windhoek before the Dakota, but overtook it en route and had landed, shut down its engines and disgorged its passengers by the time the DC-3 arrived.
INSET Probably the most remote airstrip of the whole African tour was Rosh Pinah in South West Africa, an important settlement for the mining of zinc, lead, copper and diamonds.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley Andover / HS.748 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1960

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-02 / Personal album

Douglas C-47A Dakota 3 ZS-BCY of Suidair International Airways at Croydon on May 26, 1947.

Flight 1939-12 / Flight

GUNNING THE DC 3: This time only with paint guns. One of the Swedish Air Lines’ machines being given its coat of orange paint.

Flight 1940-02 / Flight

WINTER IN SWEDEN: Passengers disemplaning from A. B. Aerotransport's new D.C.3 "Gladan" (the kite). The machine operates the Stockholm-Amsterdam route, and among its first passengers were twelve members of the French Red Cross, en route for Finland.

Flight 1937-08 / Flight

One of Swissair's two Douglas D.C.3s with the Dubendorf terminal building in the background. Behind the tail of the machine is the open-air public restaurant.

Flight 1937-10 / Flight

SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Last Sunday a Swissair Douglas D.C.3 put into Hatfield for a few minutes. The crew had not come to inspect fhe Albatross but merely to look at Hatfield as a possible reserve when Croydon is impossible.

Flight 1938-01 / Flight

A Douglas DC-3 - actually the first to be delivered to Swissair.

Air International 1992-09 / T.Todd - Frankfurt Airport: Born again, but for how long?

General view of Frankfurt apron in the 1950s with a Swissair DC-3 in the foreground and one of their DC-4s behind.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Air Pictorial 1992-01 / G.Jones - Zurich - Swiss airport excellence

Swissair's DC-3s and DC-4s pack the apron at Kloten in the late 1940's, before the first terminal was opened.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Air International 1992-09 / T.Todd - Frankfurt Airport: Born again, but for how long?

Another view of the airport in the 1950s with Pan American, Argentine and Swiss aircraft on the apron.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Boeing C-97 / Model 377 Stratocruiser - СШАUSA - 1944Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-11 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Syrian Airways’ Douglas DC-3 YK-AAO at Beirut International Airport in the late 1950s.

Aviation Historian 33 / M.Wickstead - Italy's forgotten airlines (3)

One of six C-47s operated by Transadriatica, I-TRES (c/n 25573) joined the fleet in February 1947. It later joined ALI in September 1949 and LAI (as I-LILI) in 1952. It served in Italy for another four years before becoming G-AOUD with Transair in the UK in 1956.

Air Enthusiast 1972-10 / ??? - The 40-year-old newcomer: British Caledonian Airways

A Douglas DC-3, G-ANEG, in the markings of Transair.

Мировая Авиация 218

Британская "Transair" эксплуатировала DC-3 с 1947 года. В 1959 году один из ее DC-3 (G-AMZD) разбился; погибли все 32 человека, находившиеся на борту.

История Авиации 28 / А.Андреев - Итальянское деревянное чудо /Долгожители/ (1)

Восприняв и творчески переработав европейский опыт создания пассажирских самолетов во второй половине 20-х и начале 30-х годов, американская авиаиндустрия смогла уже во второй половине 30-х годов создать семейство легендарных "Дугласов", таких как DC-3 (на фото) и DC-4, ответить на которые ни итальянской, ни европейской авиаиндустрии в целом накануне начала Второй Мировой войны было фактически нечем...

Flight 1939-04 / Flight

An impressive line-up of part of the transcontinental and Western Air Fleet at Newark Airport, New Jersey; this sort of picture brings air transport into its true perspective.

Мировая Авиация 33

Чарльз Линдберг из компании TWA, разработавший требования и заказавший первые DC-2, очень быстро оценил потенциал DC-3. Компания немедленно сделала на них заказ.

Aviation Historian 1 / M.O'Leary - The tragedy of Flight Three

A pre-war line-up of TWA hardware at Burbank, California. Nearest the camera is a Douglas DC-3, beyond which is a DST with a DC-2 behind it. All sport the legend “The Lindbergh Line”, the famous aviator having joined one of TWA’s predecessors, Transcontinental Air Transport, in 1928.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933

Flight 1939-08 / Flight

Manhattan skyline: One of the Transcontinental and Western Air Douglas D.S.T.s, or Sleeper Transports, flying over the Normandie, with the skyscraper forest of New York in the background and Brooklyn Bridge in the distance on the right.
A pair of Art Deco classics depart New York City - A TWA DC-3 flies over the French ocean liner SS Normandie, which made 139 westbound transatlantic voyages between 1935 and 1941.

Aviation Historian 1 / M.O'Leary - The tragedy of Flight Three

With the USA’s entry into the war TWA repainted the fuselages of its DC-3s, replacing the Lindbergh Line legend with exhortations to buy war bonds. The DC-3-362 Lombard was travelling in, c/n 3295, was built as NC1951 but the registration was cancelled on February 7, 1941, the machine becoming NC1946/“387” in TWA service.

Aviation Historian 1 / M.O'Leary - The tragedy of Flight Three

This extraordinary photograph of a DC-3 dwarfed by Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, gives an impression of the sheer scale of the scenery through which aircraft had to pass in the pioneering days of the early American airlines.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

Several faces of one Dakota. The independent career of the former BEA 'Pionair' G-AJHZ began with Jersey Airlines in 1961. It was then based at Newcastle from 24.3.62 with Tyne Tees Air Charter.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-12 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Union of Burma Airways’ Douglas C-47 XY-ACT at Chittagong, then in East Pakistan, on January 22, 1959.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

The Douglas DC-3 Commercial Airliner, the progenitor of the most widely-used military transport of the war, - the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota.

Мировая Авиация 55

Когда в 1930-х годах коммерческая авиация стремительно развивалась, авиакомпания "United" эксплуатировала два самых надежных самолета того времени: Douglas DC-3 (на заднем плане) и Boeing 247D. Но в конечном итоге Douglas вытеснил Boeing.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Boeing Model 247 - СШАUSA - 1933

Aviation Historian 1 / M.O'Leary - The tragedy of Flight Three

With the arrival in Hollywood of the tragic news, Gable chartered a Western Air Lines DC-3 and flew to Las Vegas with a group of the couple’s close friends and studio executives.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

Several faces of one Dakota. It was then leased to British Westpoint, shown again at Luton with titles removed on 5.66 and was finally wfu at Lisbon in April 1967.

Aviation Historian 29 / S.Sumbodo - Garuda's 'Hamble Boys'

Two of AST’s three Dakotas - G-AMSV, ’MSW and MSX - await another training sortie at Hamble. All three arrived at AST in the spring of 1952 and served until late 1954,when they moved on to new owners.

Aviation Historian 31 / T.Culbert - The Hump pioneers

Former Pacific Alaska DC-3 NC19971 (c/n 2261) is seen here in CNAC service (as #47) at Li Kiang, China, during one of the first flights across the Hump, on November 23, 1941. PAA-Africa’s Chief Pilot Dallas Sherman stated that “surrounded by the ‘fog of war’, our operations in the Assam-Burma-China combat zone were to a large degree hidden, uncertain and confusing to both the participants and the directors. To accomplish results under actual combat conditions, many methods and means were employed, which of necessity appear abnormal and unusual. They were. ”

Aviation Historian 29 / S.Sumbodo - Garuda's 'Hamble Boys'

Indonesia’s “Hamble Group” pose in front of one of Air Service Training’s Douglas Dakotas at Hamble in 1952.

Aviation Historian 9 / D.Stringer - Non-Skeds! /The Story of America's Supplemental Airlines/ (1)

Large irregular carriers proliferated during the late 1940s, one such example being the Reverend Chris Bachman’s 20th Century Airlines, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which operated a fleet of DC-3s, one of which is seen here operating a charter flight to Miami in 1947.

Aviation Historian 29 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (1)

The Dakota used by the author in Iran in 1959, G-AMSV, was formerly operated by Air Service Training during 1952-54 at Hamble, where it is seen here, before moving on to Transair (briefly) and Lancashire Aircraft Corp Ltd during 1954-59. It was then apparently used for charter work until its acquisition by British United Airways in July 1960.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-02

ZK-AOH without titles, possibly on delivery to NZNAC ?

Aviation Historian 29 / S.Sumbodo - Garuda's 'Hamble Boys'

Marking progressive steps of training at AST, three examples of the organisation’s standard training aircraft fly in formation while up from Hamble circa 1952-53. Leading from the front is Chipmunk G-AMUC, one of more than 40 operated by AST, followed by Airspeed Oxford G-AITF (formerly ED290, one of four acquired by the organisation during 1947-50) and bringing up the rear is Douglas C-47B G-AMSW, acquired by AST in May 1952.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Oxford / AS.10 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1937De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk - КанадаCanada - 1946

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-10 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Odyssey 86 Douglas DC-3 C-FGXW over the UK during its world tour. The Dak arrived at North Weald on July 27, 1986, and departed via Stansted on July 30 en route for Iceland and Canada.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-06

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

The Swedish Flygande veteraner DC-3 SE-CFP attended Eindhoven but could not go to Fairford

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-02

A DC-3 used by Parris Valley Sky Divers takes off from Parris, California, with a load of parachutists.

Flight 1940-04 / Flight

TELEVISION IN THE AIR. An American airliner photographed from a television screen at the same time that it was being seen by ground viewers and by passengers on board. The horizontal lines from the scanning device should be noted.

Air Enthusiast 1997-05 / K.Conboy - From Flying Club to Front Line

A civilian C-47 attempts to land at Pochentong airbase on March 16, 1975, as an ammunition dump burns in the background.

Air Pictorial 1958-03

Williamsons have also acquired the former Aer Lingus Dakota 3, EI-AFB, now re-registered VR-TBT, marks originally earmarked for a Dornier Do 27B.

Air-Britain Archive 1980-03

VQ-FAI(2) shortly after commencement of lease and still without titles. Larger Viewmaster windows are clearly visible

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-12 / Douglas DC-3 HB-ISC /Preservation Profile/

HB-ISC pictured in 1982 as N88YA, before its acquisition by Classic Air.

Air Pictorial 1977-05

Dakota 3 N9985Q, which was G-ANAD back in 1954 and has since been VR-AAI and F-OCKX, parked at Hum 8/2/77;

Air Pictorial 1992-01 / R.Jackson - Airport Movements

C-47B Dakota A2-ADL, which has been used for aerial surveys for the last decade, passed through Luton on 3/11/91 on its way to the USA by way of Lisbon and the Azores. The machine was formerly Autair's G-AMNV, a Luton resident in the '60s.

Мировая Авиация 227

Самолет G-AMPZ нес в 1999 году окраску Транспортного командования британских ВВС в честь 50-й годовщины Берлинского воздушного моста. Ранее, после службы в ВВС США, самолет летал в британских ВВС как Dakota IV и был куплен "Air Atlantique" в 1986 году. На стабилизаторе самолета были установлены штанги опрыскивателя (на врезке) для распыления дисперсантов над нефтяными пятнами.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / J.McHard - Far East assignment (2)

История Авиации 29 / Д.Кондратков - Берлинский воздушный мост /Спецоперации/

Разгрузка C-47 в аэропорту Темпельхоф 2 июня 1947г. На этом аэродроме также базировались и разведчики погоды B-17

Мировая Авиация 168

Во время операции "Vittles" (Берлинский воздушный мост) авиабаза Рейн-Майн была на острие активности. На фотографии - C-47 и C-54.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-02 / Skywriters

In the foreground is Gladiator K7960, in the background a D.H.86, DC-2, D.H.84 Dragon, DC-3 and an S.73, all diverted to Kenley because of bad weather.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Dragon / D.H.84 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1932De Havilland Express Air Liner / D.H.86 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933Gloster Gladiator - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934Savoia-Marchetti / SIAI S.73 - ИталияItaly - 1934

Flight 1938-06 / Flight

D.C.4 EMERGES: After successfully passing some remarkable static tests, the Douglas D.C.4 appears in the open. The huge proportions of this latest tricycle transport can be gauged from the familiar Douglas types in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4E - СШАUSA - 1938

Мировая Авиация 163

C-47 активно работали и в ходе Берлинского кризиса 1948-1949 годов. На фотографии - американские Skytrain получают груз на авиабазе в Висбадене, вскоре они отправятся с ними на помощь "осажденному" Западному Берлину. Берлинский воздушный мост стал одной из грандиозных воздушных операций того времени.

Flight 1939-09 / Flight

Calling-in at Buffalo Airport for a visit to the Curtiss Wright Airplane Division. Picture taken by the author from a D.C.3.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / J.Ramsden - Seattle's crystal palace

A frozen flypast, suspended in the airy Great Gallery, includes a Douglas DC-3, a Stearman C-3B, and a replica of the first Boeing of all, the B&W of 1916. On the floor is a Boeing 80A-1.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Boeing B & W / Model 1 - СШАUSA - 1916Boeing Model 80 - СШАUSA - 1928Stearman C1 / C2 / C3 / 4E / 6 Cloudboy - СШАUSA - 1927

Мировая Авиация 165

До получения специализированных военных вариантов C-47, ВВС США использовали различные модификации гражданских авиалайнеров DC-2 и DC-3, получивших обозначения C-32/33/34/38/39/40/41.

Aviation Historian 31 / T.Culbert - The Hump pioneers

The workhorse of the four units that pioneered flying “the Hump” from India over the Himalayas to China during April-May 1942 was Douglas’s ubiquitous C-47 transport. A USAAF ABCFC example is seen here at a dispersal site near Dinjan in the Assam province of north-eastern India.

Авиация и Время 2015-06

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1947 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Douglas C-117A (DC-3D) Military or Commercial Transport (two 1,200 h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin-Wasp engines).

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-07 / Personal album. Military

A Douglas C-47D of the USAF serving as a VIP transport. in which role the type was designated VC-47D.

Мировая Авиация 168

C-117 Skytrooper был транспортным вариантом C-47 с салоном на 24 человека. Изображен C-117C - один из 11 нестандартных VC-47, получивших новое обозначение в 1953 году.

Авиация и Космонавтика 1997-10 / И.Кудишин - Кладовка для самолетов

C-47 "Дакота" - когда-то их тут были сотни, отсюда они отправлялись на организацию воздушного моста на Берлин в 1947г., в Корею, Вьетнам, а это второй (!) серийный экземпляр C-47

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-03 / S.Howe - The Confederate Air Force

Douglas C-47 Skytrain N491P Buzz Buggy was donated in 1973.

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-03 / Personal album

Another USAAF type, Douglas C-47A Skytrain 292718, displays its large rear door. This was yet another Digby visitor, and came from a batch of 171 with constructor's numbers 12328-12498.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2008-12 / Н.Таликов - Транспортники мира - гонка продолжается

Транспортный Дуглас C-47 "Скайтрейн"

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1947 / All the world's aeroplanes

A Standardised version of the Douglas Skytrain which carries both U.S. Army C-47B and U.S. Navy R4D-6 designations.

Air Enthusiast 2006-01 / G.Salerno - A Troubled Birth /Air forces/

A C-47 of the 803rd Air Evacuation Squadron in the CBI theatre.

Aviation Historian 31 / T.Culbert - The Hump pioneers

Captains Ziegler and Eveland (third and fourth from left facing camera) take a break from offloading their precious cargo - civilian refugees fleeing the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma - for a photograph at Dinjan in April 1942. The work of the four units was arduous, dangerous and vital in establishing the ‘‘Aerial Burma Road”.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

The flamboyant nose of CAF R4D-6S N151ZE, photographed by AUSTIN J. BROWN.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-02 / B.Service - Ghost squadron

Douglas R4D-6S originally equipped for air-sea warfare training w US Navy.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

CAF R4D

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Оснащенный бортовыми сиденьями для 28 военнослужащих и дверью по левому борту, C-53 Skytrooper являлся военно-транспортным вариантом C-47. Для ВВС США было построено относительно немного самолетов этой модификации - всего 404 машины

Мировая Авиация 163

По большому счету C-47 стал воздушным эквивалентом армейского джипа - неприхотлив, долетит куда угодно и выполнит любое задание. Этот Skytrain из 316-й транспортно-десантной авиагруппы распыляет пестициды над пораженными малярией районами Окинавы, июль 1945 года.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

The Douglas C-47A Skytrain Military Transport (two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 engines).

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

The Douglas C-53 Skytrooper Troop-carrier and Glider-tug (two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 engines).

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-01

A brace of Confederate Air Force Douglas C-47s, with 210058 Buzz Buggy nearest

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

The CAF R4D and Col Tom Thomas' C-53 N53ST, seen from Air Atlantique’s DC-3 G-AMSV

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

The Douglas C-47B Skytrain Military Transport (two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C engines).

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В годы Второй мировой войны C-47 оказывался в тех местах, куда направлялись союзники. Самолеты эксплуатировались очень интенсивно - перевозили грузы и личный состав. Данный C-47 из 6-й транспортно-десантной эскадрильи ВВС Армии США следует над горным массивом Новой Гвинеи, 1943 год. В качестве эскорта привлечены Bell P-39 Airacobra - японские истребители могли атаковать в любой момент. Количество P-39 в Европе и Африке было незначительным, в то время как на тихоокеанском театре военных действий Airacobra и P-40 доминировали до 1944 года.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bell P-39 Airacobra - СШАUSA - 1939

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v3

Douglas C-47s towing gliders on D-Day.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

A flypast at Eindhoven at July 6, 1984

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Фотография немецкого очевидца - 440 самолетов и планеров из 38-й и 46-й групп вместе с 243 Douglas C-47 американского 52-го транспортного авиакрыла высадили первую волну десанта над Дирсфордтер-Вальд примерно в 10 часов утра.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-12 / F.Adkin - Memoirs of Aircraftsman (12)

The US Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command Squadron drops British and Canadian paratroops during an invasion exercise in 1944.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-08 / J.Golley - Paratrooper

A parachute exercise being carried out by the Ninth USAAF Troop Carrier Command. The 750 paratroopers of the 9th Battalion the Parachute Regiment dropped into Normandy under cover of darkness a year after this photograph was taken. They also jumped from Dakotas.

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Окно в облаках дало возможность сбросить грузы с транспортных самолетов обескровленной под Бастонью американской 101-й воздушно-десантной дивизии.

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C-47/Dakota был основным транспортным самолетом союзников, особенно активно он привлекался к выброске парашютных десантов - в первый день операции "Market Garden" самолеты выбросили 15 тысяч десантников.

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В ходе войны, наряду с поисково-спасательными SC-47D (позднее HC-47D), ВВС США стали использовать для спасения сбитых пилотов OA-10). Спасательный плот подвешивался под крылом и мог быть сброшен рядом с пострадавшим самолетом. Операции по спасению часто проводились совместно с ВМС и Береговой охраной США. Оснащенные OA-10 поисково-спасательные эскадрильи (Emergency Rescue Squadrons - ERS) базировались no всему миру, от Гренландии до острова Вознесения.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Consolidated PBY Catalina - СШАUSA - 1935

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Часть C-47 была переоборудована в поисково-спасательные машины. SC-47D могли нести под фюзеляжем спасательную шлюпку.

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"SPEAKER BIRD" и "SISTER GABBY" были позывными Helio U-10 и C-47 из 5-й эскадрильи спецопераций (SOS), задействованных для сброса листовок и пропагандистского вещания.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Helio Courier - СШАUSA - 1949

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Попытки американцев вести психологическую войну дали весьма сомнительные результаты. На снимке "bullshit bomber" из 5-й SOS разбрасывает листовки над вьетнамскими джунглями.

Air International 1986-03 / M.Hirst - Piston Engines (6)

Pratt & Whitney, still in business today as one of the world’s "big three" gas turbine makers, vied with Wright in the piston engine era. More than 10,000 Douglas DC-3 variants were P&W powered

Air Pictorial 1957-01 / The journal of a roving spotter

The only camouflaged C-47 in Europe, this aircraft is the personal transport of General R. M. Lee, Commander, U.S. 12th A.F. The colours are brown and green.

Моделист-Конструктор Военно-транспортные самолеты Второй мировой войны

Группа C-47 ВВС армии США на аэродроме, 1944 г.

Авиация и Время 2004-03 / А.Котлобовский, И.Солодянкин - Забытая кампания (2)

"Кобры" и "Дакоты" на авиабазе Колд-Бей. Аляска, 1942г.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bell P-39 Airacobra - СШАUSA - 1939

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Прицеп для джипа грузится на борт C-47A из 9-го транспортно-десантного авиакомандования в день высадки в Нормандии 6 июня 1944 года. Загрузка такого оборудования через дверь в фюзеляже была крайне трудоемкой и продолжительной - один из самых серьезных недостатков C-47. Менее чем через сутки 1600 транспортных самолетов и планеров союзников высадили в Нормандии три полнокровные воздушно-десантные дивизии.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-12 / D.Middleton - Airspeed's Silent Warhorse (3)

Horsas and Dakotas in Italy ready for the Allied landings in southern France, 1944.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Horsa / AS.51 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1941

АвиаМастер 2005-03 / К.Кузнецов - Крылатый пехотинец дяди Сэма /Монография/

C-47 готовится взлететь с планером "Вако" на буксире.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Air Enthusiast 2007-03 / B.Norton - Ready for the Silent Assault /World war two/ (1)

Acquiring tugs to tow the CG-4s up for training was almost as difficult as getting the gliders. One method of getting the most from each C-47 sortie was to haul two WACOs under double tow.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-08 / P.Chinnery - Operation Thursday (2)

A Douglas C-47 tows off a Waco CG-4A. The glider could carry 15 troops, and each C-47 could tow two CG-4As.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-06 / Personal album. Military

A Dakota tow aircraft seen from the cockpit of a Hadrian in India, June 1945. Note the position of the towrope relative to the pilot s field of view.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Air Enthusiast 2007-05 / B.Norton - Ready for the Silent Assault /World war two/ (2)

"Just follow the rope!" View from the cockpit of a CG-4A in high tow above a C-47.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

История Авиации 33 / В.Чистов - Дух Бури Индостана /Рывок аутсайдера/

"Дакота" с прототипом "Марута" набирает высоту

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: HAL HF-24 Marut - ИндияIndia - 1961

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-06 / Personal album. Military

Another view of the Hadrian that overshot on landing. Note the lack of wing dihedral and the wheel undercarriage. Some Hadrians jettisoned their wheels on take-off and landed on plywood skids. The strut-braced wings had wooden spars and ribs, were sheathed with thin ply and covered in fabric. All control surfaces were fabric covered.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-06 / Personal album. Military

This Waco Hadrian overshot while landing at Basal in June 1945. Note the Dakota in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Изд-во Schiffer / S.Markman & B.Holder - One-of-a-kind research aircraft

The use of production aircraft for simulation and testbed missions has been carried out for many years. Here, a C-47 assigned to the Air Force Medical Research Laboratory was used in the 1950s for human engineering experiments.

Aviation Historian 31 / T.Culbert - The Hump pioneers

Desperate times call for desperate measures - wounded British soldiers on stretchers are placed in the shade of a C-47’s wing while awaiting evacuation from Myitkyina to Dinjan in April 1942. Pilots also had to contend with ferrying refugees suffering from tuberculosis, dysentery, cholera, smallpox and malaria.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-12 / H.Morgan, I.Baur - Whatson's whizzers (1)

Col Watson called this dilapidated C-47 “my office” and used it for transporting spare Jumo 004 turbojets and other equipment.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Messerschmitt Me.262 Schwalbe - ГерманияGermany - 1941

Aviation Historian 30

Supplies - apparently including boxes of photographic glass plates - being unloaded from a USAAF Douglas C-47 on Vis.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2014-06 / Знаменательные даты июня в истории авиации

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Британские военнослужащие из 7-й авиадесантной армии грузятся на борт C-47A ВВС США в ходе операции "Market Garden" - высадки воздушного десанта на Эйндховен, Неймеген и Арнем (17 сентября 1944 года). В тот день в операции было задействовано свыше 1500 самолетов.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 01 - A review of the world's air power during the years 1944-45

R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. Dakota transports on an airfield in Southern Greece after bringing in men and supplies for the liberation of the Country.

Моделист-Конструктор Военно-транспортные самолеты Второй мировой войны

Британские парашютисты грузятся в "Дакоту" 512-й эскадрильи перед высадкой в Нормандии, 1944г.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-05 / J.Moss - Air Op Austers: eyes for the Army (5)

Auster V RT538 of 656 Sqn being loaded into a C-47 “Dunibo” for Padang.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Taylorcraft Auster - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / P.Skinner - Back to Berlin

German labourers load Dakota KN496 with coal at RAF Fassberg, Germany.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / P.Skinner - Back to Berlin

Diversions from Buckeburg to Wunstorf on July 2, 1950: Dakota C Mk IV KN419 with BEA Dakota Freighter G-AGIZ in the background.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / P.Skinner - Back to Berlin

Presentations at Gatow. Senator Wagner and Gp Capt Eustace both hold 30 Sq memorabilia; Wg Cdr Andrew Johnstone, standing next to Wg Cdr David Guest, carries the symbolic lump of coal.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-12 / A.Smith - Monty's Dak

Field Marshal Montgomery, third from left, with KN628 and crew at Blackbushe in 1945.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-04 / B.Mosenthal - The intrepid boer

Ground fitters, riggers and an MT driver pose for an A Flight, 271 Sqn, group photo at Down Ampney in May 1941.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-09 / J.King - From Little Acorns

General view of Gatwick taken in November 1947 with the camouflaged Beehive on the left of the picture.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-09 / J.King - From Little Acorns

Taken at the same time was this view of an assortment of Dakotas with two BEA aircraft in the foreground.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-12 / N.Lees - You can't keep a good man down

The second production Avro Tudor, VX202, at Luqa en route to tropical trials in Nairobi. In the background are an RAF Dakota and Lancaster.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Lancaster / Type 683 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1941Avro Tudor / Type 688/689 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Croydon /Gone but not forgotten/ (5)

Two RAF Dakotas flank an Air France Bloch 221 in April 1946.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bloch MB.220 - ФранцияFrance - 1936

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-12 / G.Tuff - A life in service

A fine study of Dakota KN645 as it runs up its starboard Pratt & Whitney against the chocks.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-02 / M.Bunn - Daks out East

Dakota IV KN603 in India shortly after the war.

Air Enthusiast 2001-07 / T.Spencer - Land of the Rising Sun

Dakota IV KN649 at Miho in 1947. It was on the strength of the BC Air Comms Sqn but was the personal aircraft of the AOC, hence the nose markings.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-05 / Personal album

Douglas Dakota IV, KJ900, about to be returned to lease lend.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-02 / M.Bunn - Daks out East

Dakota IV KP256 in service in India after the war.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / G.Cull - Chakeri graveyard

Douglas Dakota IV, KN589, with tail cone missing.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-03 / Skywriters

Dick Lewis's photograph of one of Monty's Dakotas, in this case KN628, photographed at Hassani airfield, Greece in June 1946 during a Middle East tour.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-08 / J.Golley - Paratrooper

A Dakota C Mk III, powered by two Twin Wasps and photographed in June 1944.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-12 / F.Adkin - Memoirs of Aircraftsman (12)

Dakota III FD903 NQ-I of No 24 “Commonwealth” Squadron, July 1943.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-01 / 1986 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide

Douglas Dakota KP208 at Aldershot;

Air International 1984-08 / J.Fricker - Breathless Moments

One of the Douglas C-47B Dakota Mk 3s of No 1 Parachute Training School at RAF Upper Heyford in mid-1947.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-02 / Personal album. Military

Dakota III FZ587 of 353 Squadron at Bahrain in February 1944. Following a period with 1334 CU, this Dakota was sold to the Indian government in January 1947.

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-03 / Personal album

Douglas Dakota KK134 was with 247 Squadron, RAF Transport Command, when seen at RAAF Station Camden, NSW, Australia, prior to departure for the UK in April 1946.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-05 / Personal album. Military

Air Vice-Marshal Bouchier, BCAIR, at Haneda Airport, Tokyo in 1947. Behind may be seen his Dakota IV, KN547. This aircraft was delivered to the RAF early in 1945 and served with Nos 238, 48, 52 and 110 Sqns in addition to service with the Iwakuni Station Flight and the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces - Japan, when this photograph was probably taken. The Dakota finished its Service career with the Military Assistance Aircraft Group in September 1954.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-05 / Personal album

Hawker Tempest II, PR668, being run-up for flight. The fitter is climbing out of the cockpit, having started the engine by means of Coffman cartridge. The scruffy condition of the paintwork is due to the original grey and green camouflage showing through the silver dope where fitters have climbed about the aircraft. The photograph was taken from the cockpit of a Dakota, and another Mk IV can be seen in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Hawker Tempest - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1943

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-12 / B.Shilling - Mutiny!

With the effects of the mutiny blowing over in the spring of 1946, Sir Roderick Carr, by then an Air Marshal, attended a Victory Week display at Delhi. It included some spirited flying by a Hawker Tempest, seen here taking off in front of Dakotas, a Hurricane and the tomb of Safdar Jang.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Hawker Hurricane - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935Hawker Tempest - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1943

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-03 / Personal album

The anonymous RAF Dakota was serving as a VIP transport when photographed at RAAF Station Camden, NSW, in February 1946.

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Транспортные Dakota RAF и ВВС США были незаменимы при операциях по доставке снабжения и вывозу раненых и беженцев из Югославии. На снимке Dakota Mark III из 267-й эскадрильи разгружается в Бари в Италии. К приему раненых и больных партизан и гражданских готовится санитарная группа из 31-го мобильного полевого госпиталя RAF.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-04 / R.Baxter - A touch of the Gregory Pecks

Самолеты Dakota Mk III из 267-й эскадрильи на авиабазе Бари, Италия, 1944 год. В ходе итальянской кампании аэродром активно использовался британскими ВВС и ВВС Армии США.
A line of RAF Transport Command Dakotas seen at Bari, Italy, a well-known staging post during the war.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-04 / R.Baxter - A touch of the Gregory Pecks

A line of Transport Command Dakotas at a staging post in the Middle East.

Air Enthusiast 2006-01 / The Roundels File

Preston-built Mk. VI RG814 was used mostly by Bristol on engine trials and is shown in Canada. Behind is Avro Lincoln 1 RE250 and some Douglas Dakotas. RG814 was struck off charge in May 1948.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944Handley Page Halifax / H.P.57 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-04 / B.Mosenthal - The intrepid boer

271 Sqn Dakotas on a Belgian airstrip after flying in supplies from the UK. PoWs or casualties were carried on the return flights.

Мировая Авиация 167

Самолеты Dakota из 271-й эскадрильи 46-й авиагруппы (авиабаза Даун-Ампни) разгружаются на аэродроме в Бельгии, 1945 год.

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-12 / G.Tuff - A life in service

RAF and civil-registered Dakotas are loaded in readiness for another trip to Berlin.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / P.Skinner - Back to Berlin

25 or so Dakotas loading and unloading, probably during operation Plainfare.

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-12 / G.Tuff - A life in service

During the Berlin Airlift, AC2 Charles Curran of Dublin gives the green Aldis light to the first Dakota in a wave, clearing it to taxy up the apron to the peri-track.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1978-04

Since this issue contains an article on Brize Norton, a photograph of that airfield seemed appropriate. This was taken in May 1946 and close scrutiny will reveal 26 Dakotas and 166 Horsas strewn around. Comparison with the plan on page 95 will reveal the major changes that have taken place during the development of the airfield to cater for long-range transports.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Horsa / AS.51 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1941

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-12 / N.Lees - You can't keep a good man down

Spitfires and a Dakota in front of Benina’s main hangar and flying control.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX / XVI - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-07 / Personal album

The fine shot of Douglas C-47B Dakota 4 KN279 is interesting because the aircraft was later to appear on the British civil register as G-ANAD. Its original US identity was 43-49954, and after operations as G-ANAD it was sold in Aden in March 1954 as VR-AAI.

Мировая Авиация 167

Этот самолет Dakota Mk III принадлежал 257-й эскадрилье и запечатлен в октябре 1944 года около Миссолонги во время возвращения на свою базу в Араксосе (Греция). На носу - отличительный знак эскадрильи - пегас.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-04 / B.Mosenthal - The intrepid boer

Dakota 'S for Sugar’ flying over the picturesque Grecian Islands near Missolonghi.
An inflight study of Dakota III FD857 of 267 Sqn. This aircraft was sold to the Indian Government on January 30, 1947.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-05 / Personal album

Douglas Dakota I FD784 over East Africa. Over 50 Mk Is were supplied to the RAF under lend-lease. The RAF's Dakota I corresponded to the USAAF's C-47, and No 117 Squadron was the first to use them in the Middle East.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-12 / A.Smith - Monty's Dak

Dakota IV KN628 carrying Montgomery's Union Jack and five-star insignia on its tail.

Aeroplane Monthly 1995-12 / T.Spooner - A Speedbird's story (2)

A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, still wearing RAF camouflage. The author flew a mixture of military- and civilian-painted Daks, changing his uniform accordingly from RAF to BOAC!

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

The photograph, taken by Y. D. PRINZEN on July 11, 1985, depicts Aces High's DC-3 G-DAKS. The aircraft is painted as Flt Lt David Lord VC’s Dakota, KG874, of 271 Sqn.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-06 / M.O'Leary - Flight into history

Further view of specially-painted Dak 12944, airborne over Vancouver Island in mid-March during its farewell tour of Western Canada.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-06 / M.O'Leary - Flight into history

Aircraft 12944, formerly FZ671 (shown here), was repainted in the D-Day colours of 437 Sqn in Europe in 1944-45 (shame about the camouflage shades though), while its hangar-mate 12963 wore the Burma colours of 435/436 Sqn of the same period.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-09

Aces High C-47 Dakota G-DAKS was painted recently to represent the aircraft of Flt Lt David Lord VC, shot down at Arnhem in 1944.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-10 / ??? - The Dak is 50

G-DAKS/KG874

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-06 / Grapevine

The world's two greatest transport aeroplanes in formation over North Weald on April 19, 1986: these examples are Douglas Dakota G-DAKS and Junkers Ju 52 (actually a licence-built CASA 352L) G-BFHG.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Junkers Ju.52/3m - ГерманияGermany - 1931

Мировая Авиация 167

Dakota Mk III "Kwicherbichen UK" из 233-й эскадрильи возвращается 1 августа 1944 года из Нормандии с ранеными. 13 июня 1944 года два самолета Dakota из этой эскадрильи стали первыми из Транспортного командования, севшими в День Д во Франции.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / 1985 UK airshows guide

Aces High's Dakota, in full D-Day markings, flies past in the hands of "Dizzy" Addicott.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / P.Skinner - Back to Berlin

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1985-04

Dakota IVs of the Middle East Communications Squadron

Air International 1984-08 / J.Fricker - Breathless Moments

Some breathless moments for a training stick from one of the Parachute Training School's Dakotas. The first student out is carrying a 60-lb (27-kg) kitbag strapped to his leg, which is causing an uncharacteristic (and highly undesirable) somersault in the slipstream. The canopy-last deployment sequence of the X-Type Statichute is graphically shown in this photograph, in which the rigging lines have just reached their full extension and are about to pull the parachute canopy from its bag stowage. Bags and strops from two previous jumpers in the stick are trailing from the door, from which the student (an RAF nursing sister) is holding a textbook exit position.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-12 / F.Adkin - Memoirs of Aircraftsman (12)

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-12 / P.Hearn - 50 years of parachute training

An armada of Dakotas drops paratroopers of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Britain had two divisions of Airborne troops by 1944.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-02 / M.Bunn - Daks out East

A typical dropping zone in Malaya seen from a supply-dropping Dakota. Quarter flap has been lowered in preparation for the first drop.

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Dakota готовится подцепить планер Waco - данная техника использовалась для возвращения планеров, задействованных в 1944 году во 2-й экспедиции британских сил спецназначения, дислоцированных в Индии (они именовались "Chindits", в 1944 году включали 3-ю индийскую пехотную дивизию).

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-08 / M.Hardy - 1950 RAF Display (2)

Two views of the Dakota C.4/Waco CG-4A-CM Hadrian snatch pick-up combination. Dakota KN641 is about to tow the Waco from a standing start.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: WACO CG-4A Hadrian - СШАUSA - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-04 / R.Baxter - A touch of the Gregory Pecks

An RAF Dakota lands past a Lockheed Hudson at a Middle East airfield.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Lockheed Hudson A-28 / A-29 - СШАUSA - 1938

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-01 / Photographic competition. The winners

One of two shots highly commended by the judges was by G. Frankland of London SW2, who photographed Aces High Dakota G-DAKS “KG874” at Duxford on June 8, 1984

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-04 / R.Baxter - A touch of the Gregory Pecks

Dakota III FZ554 landing at Camilla, Italy on July 24, 1944. Nearly 2,000 Dakotas were provided by the USA for the RAF under the lend lease agreement. Over 50 RAF Squadrons and as many other units used the aircraft during the war.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / S.Piercey - The great warbirds display

Aces High's KG374.

Мир Авиации 2006-02 / Д.Комиссаров - RIAT 2006: праздник на любой вкус /Своими глазами/

Посадка C-47B "Дакота" Mk 4 борта KK116 (он же G-AMPY, зав. N 26569/сер. N 15124).

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Этот ZA947 (последний самолет Dakota), находившийся в эксплуатации в Великобритании, с 1983 года принадлежал авиационному научно-исследовательскому институту в Фарнборо и привлекался к испытаниям различного оборудования, включая парашютные системы. В 1993 году его передали мемориальному летному отряду "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight".

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Один C-47B с лыжным шасси входил в состав Антарктического отряда австралийских ВВС, но потерпел аварию в 1960 году. Ракетные ускорители (RATO) существенно сократили взлетную дистанцию машины.

Air Enthusiast 2003-11 / G.Salerno - Over the Poles

An R4D-5 taking off from the carrier USS 'Philippine Sea' as the beginning of High Jump.

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31 октября 1956г.: R4D-5 Skytrain Que Sera Sera из 6-й Антарктической исследовательской эскадрильи (VX-6) ВМС США с экипажем под командованием контр-адмирала Джорджа Дюфека стал первым самолетом, приземлившимся на Южном полюсе.

Air Enthusiast 1999-11 / N.Gillespie - 'Deep Freeze' (1)

During the long winter nights the snow could bury the aircraft of VX-6. Many man-hours were needed to ‘recover’ them

Air Enthusiast 2003-11 / G.Salerno - Over the Poles

Douglas R4D-5s at Little America IV, during Operation High Jump in 1947, with stoves connected to the engines.

Мир Авиации 2005-02 / В.Мартианов - Шестой континент, пятый океан... /Страницы истории/ (2)

Аэродром американской станции Мак-Мердо. Слева направо: B-26 "Инвейдер", UH-34, R4D (флотское обозначение C-47), P2V "Нептун", "Бивер", R4D-8 (он же LC-117, он же "Super DC-3"). На переднем плане - дом Роберта Скотта (находится внутри строения). 25 октября 1958 года.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver - КанадаCanada - 1947Douglas A-26 / B-26 Invader - СШАUSA - 1942Lockheed Neptune P2V - СШАUSA - 1945Sikorsky CH-34 / S-58 Choсtaw - СШАUSA - 1954

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v3

Workers at the Douglas Long Beach plant pose by the 2,000th DC-3 from their assembly line.

Flight 1937-10 / Flight

Workers in the Douglas factory at Santa Monica well into their job on a D.C.3.

Flight 1937-11 / Flight

PROTECTIVE PULSATIONS: Installing the latest Goodrich de-icing equipment on the leading edge of a T.W.A. Douglas. It is arranged so that pulsations of air through rubber tubing under the rubber covering break off the ice as soon as it forms. The device is controlled by a master valve and pressure is obtained from the engine exhaust. The pulsations raise the covering about half an inch.

Моделист-Конструктор Военно-транспортные самолеты Второй мировой войны

Сборка C-47 на заводе "Дуглас" в Лонг-Бич, 1944 г.

Мир Авиации 1999-04 / В.Котельников - От DC-3 до Ли-2 /Крупным планом/

Сборка DC-3-196 советского заказа в США.

Моделист-Конструктор Военно-транспортные самолеты Второй мировой войны

C-47, предназначенный для поставки в СССР, аэродром Грейт-Фоллз, 1944г.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2011-10 / Гражданская авиация Камчатки /Фотоархив/

C-47, аэродром Марково, 5.02.1946