MDAP serial 43-15794, Used by, the Academy Kangshan, up to mid 1995, then withdrawn from use. First stored at Kangshan up to early 2000. Preserved since mid-2005 at Pingtung south.

MDAP serial 51-8070

Photographer: Masumi Wada

First flown in January 1934. To D-ALAS. To Luftwaffe in 1939, fate unknown. Photo from: Lufthansa

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

ex USAAF 43-10843. Re-registered N18BJ shortly after this picture was taken. Photographer unknown

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Inside Planes of Fame Air Museum's B-17G under restoration. This aircraft was delivered as 44-83684 on 7 May 1945, too late to see action in WW2. It went into storage in Texas and was converted to a DB-17G drone director aircraft to control radio-operated QB-17 target aircraft. In this role it participated in the 1951 Op Greenhouse nuclear tests and flew the last operational mission for the USAF on 6 Aug 1959. The staggered waist gun positions can be seen with the starboard gun moved forward by three fuselage frames. The seated Plexiglas windows afforded more comfort at combat altitude.

Delivered to the USAF as MATS C-118A 53-3279 in August 1955; via MASDC to the US Navy as 533279 in March 1976. Again to MASDC in February 1985 (8C041) and placed on display, marked 0-33279. To N578AS in 1986 and operational in Florida early 1990s. Bought by Nighthawk Air Systems in 1995, leased to the Radial Reminiscence Preservation Group in Oakland (CA) for restoration in full United colours. Back to Nighthawk after lack of funds, flown to Texas, CofA renewed twice for NX578AS and eventually stored here. Just United's Mainliner Oakland emblem remains on the nose. Seen from outside the field.

A genuine pre-WWII civilian DC-3 delivered to TWA in April 1939 as NC14931 and served with them until February 1952. It subsequently passed thought the hands of numerous operators and was last active flying out of Laredo, TX., as XA-KTB with Aero JBR, but had been withdrawn and stored by 2008. The deteriorating aircraft was acquired by the Fourrier Foundation in 2018 and moved from Laredo to San Antonio, TX., where they planned to restored it to airworthiness and use it for humanitarian relief flights in South America and Africa, although there have been no recent reports of their progress.

This aircraft was accepted by the USAAF as UC-78 43-31765 in January 1944, it served until retired in April 1945 and civilianised as N51760 in July 1945. After having only two subsequent private owners it was acquired by the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA., in 2017, where it is currently on display in civilian colours wearing the names "Donner", "North Pole Express" and " Santa's Lil' Helper".

Ex-ZS-CDX. Circa 1992 preserved near Dancing Kokoriko club near Zomergen, Belgium.

Ful markings have been re-applied to this great looking C-119 preserved in this huge park near Taichung.

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The aircraft is a Franklin Gander conversion with 260hp IO-470 Continental engines. It spent many years in Alaska as N28676 & N85U where it was wrecked/sunk several times. It has a modified nose cap, G-44A bow, no 2nd step aft, McKinnon retractable floats and a fairing behind the main wheel wells. It was re-registered N144SL in October 2018 and sold to a new owner in New Zealand and was last noted dismantled at Ardmore Airport, North Island, awaiting restoration in March 2022. (Credit: Bill O Bailey for much of the above).