C-47A 42-92482 to US Marines as an R4D-5, BuNo 17136, in January 1944. The original caption suggest the Edwards test centre used three R4Ds, one at a time, between 1952 and 1984, and that this was the second one between 1956 and 1979. One of their jobs was to check if lakebeds were dry enough for X-plane emergency landings. Last registration of this airframe, XA-ROM. Photo from: NASA

Ex Bu37524, registered N7262C in 1957 and converted for use as a sprayer in 1969. Spent several years from 1981 stored at Chandler before being moved to Sonoma CA. in 1988. Stored once again before moving to Vacaville-Nut Tree CA. for conversion to a warbird. Registered as NL20PV in August 1995. The aircraft has remained at Nut Tree ever since but has not flown for many years.

Parked with sister-ship G-AMRA, which was also next in sequence on the UK Civil Register.

Before with LACSA and SANSA. Sold to Aeronica as YN-BWY. Back to Trans Costa Rica as TI-TRA and finally exported to the Dominican Republic as HI-602CA for Antillas Air Cargo and later operated by Aerotim

Recently purchased by Iscargo at this time from Fred Olsen Air Transport where it was registered LN-FOL. Still showing signs of where the old titles and registration have been painted out. WFU in 1981 and broken up in 1983. Nose section preserved at the Icelandic Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.

Recently purchased by Iscargo at this time from Fred Olsen Air Transport where it was registered LN-FOL. Still showing signs of where the old titles and registration have been painted out. WFU in 1981 and broken up in 1983. Nose section preserved at the Icelandic Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.

"Fat Annie" taxying in off of runway 24 in the later BAF blue c/s. Reported as stored at Gainesville TX as N89FA in 2021.

Macedonian Aviation was formed in the summer of 1972 with this C-47 and, later, Dove G-APZU, both based at Southend. G-AMPO carried out the first service on 5th November 1972, from Southend to Amsterdam. The Dove arrived on 24th November 1972. The airline ceased flying in November 1974 by which time it had acquired 5 C-47s all of which were transferred to Humber Airways.

First registered as G-ASKE on 10 Jul 1963 with first flight on 05 Jan 1964. Delivered to the RAF as XR362 on 21 Dec 1967. WFU from the RAF and sold as G-BEPE on 30 Mar 1977. Operated by Transmeridian Air Cargo, later HeavyLift Cargo Airlines. WFU on 26 Oct 1984 and used for spares. Scrapped at Southend on 18 Feb 1994.

Negative from FNG archive. Delivered March 1937 to Alpar as HB-AME. Swissair 1947, reregistered HB-APE 1948. Motorfluggruppe Zürch 1955, offered for sale 1965. Registered D-IGUN 1969 and moved to Germany for rebuild. Acquired by Kurfiss Aviation 1974 and displayed at Frankfurt and Düsseldorf with periods in store. Sold 1994 and dismantled for spares in the rebuilding of D-ILIT at Lahr. Was operating an ambulance flight on above occasion.

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.

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.