7 May 43: TOS USAAF as UC-43 43-10852; assigned to Langley Army Air Field, VA. Served also at Love Field, Dallas, TX, and Cincinnati Field, OH. 2 Apr 45: RFC for sale. 1946: Registered NC53298, went through several owners. 12/68: Richard L. Perry, Hampshire, IL. 1969 to current, at least three other owners. 1974: Rebuilt. Photo taken from a Beech E18S, about 40 miles WNW of Chicago.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Astro was the last operator of this former USAAF Curtiss built in 1947. Other users were Flying Tigers, Zantop, Universal, Aviation Associates of Georgia, Channel Air Lift and Genavco. Last noted 2006 as an eyecatcher for a diner close to Manila airport (photographer not known)

The DC-3C shows its complete serial HZ-SAR1 on the rear fuselage while the tail read code SA-R-1. The Dakota was once used by the Saudi Royal Flight as part of the Royal Saudi Air Force.

The aircraft was delivered to the USAF as T-29C 52-1096 in September 1953, it was converted to AC-131A in April 1959 then AT-29C in May 1960, and re-designated ET-29C in 1962. It passed to the FAA as N244 in September 1962, re-registered N247 in September 1963 and then N28 in November 1963, N254 in 1966 and lastly to N94 in 1973. Restored to the USAF as 52-1096 in April 1977 but offered for sale and acquired by Time Aviation Services as N45786 in August that year. The last confirmed sighting at Tucson was in 1986 and thought scrapped around the time the registration was cancelled in July 1988.

Ex 44-86727

originally delivered to Garuda in 1950 - still as a CV-240. To General Dynamics Corp. as N94294 in 1964. Converted to CV-600 in 1965 and delivered to Central Airlines in December 1965. To Frontier in 1967 and back to Indonesia in 1970 (photographer not known)

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Temporarily out of service. The airline had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 1999.

This Heron was built at Chester in 1965 and flown by BEA on the Scottish Highlands and Islands routes, before joining Rolls-Royce at Hucknall (EGNA) in 1969. It was acquired by the Centre in 1995.

Operated by Intermountain Air Services. Photo by Steve Kraus.

Ex-Braniff. Photo by Steve Kraus.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Ordered by Capital but not taken up and delivered 1962 as N9107C to Braniff International. Traded to Boeing 1969 and converted to freighter as HR-TNL for TAN. Descended below glideslope while approaching Tegucigalpa 21 March 1990 and flew into high ground.

1937: Built as an E17B. 12/37: Registered NC18857. 27 Apr '42: TOS USAAF. Impressed as UC-43D, 42-46915, at Hensley Field, Dallas, TX. 5/42 to 7/43: Assigned to San Antonio, TX, Air Depot; loaned to Howard Hughes; assigned to Duncan Field, TX, then to Kelly Field, TX. 7/43: CAA, Alamo Field, TX, and later assigned to Love Field in Dallas. 2/45: RFC for disposal. Many owners. 1976-1977: Restored as F17D. 1988: Converted to E17L. 24 Jan 17: Suffered engine failure and was ditched in Discovery Bay, WA.