Typical DC7 landing. I guess they started cleaning it but didn't have the means to reach all the way up to the tail and fuselage.

Starting up after clearing customs doing a twice weekly cargoflight from SDQ.

Delivered new to Northwest Orient as N289 in 08.57, serving until used for ground instruction from 09.67. Bought by T & G 10.89. Seen being prepared for lease to Aerochago from 18.05.91. HI-599CT from 08.91. Crashed on take off from Santo Domingo 18.02.93.

HI-548CT seconds before touchdown on runway 9L. Thanks to Dominican carriers such as this one Miami saw a wonderful revival of Connie operations during the late 1980s and early 1990s. This particular Connie was delivered to the USAF in 1956 as 54-0183, and was written off while in storage at Santo Domingo on September 22, 1998, when a C-46 Commando collided into it during Hurricane Georges.

A Constellation in flight… Sheer grace and beauty. If only today's boring Boeing/Airbus shapes could be replaced by this...! This is what Miami still used to be like in the early 1990s. This Connie, and another one, then a DC-7 and a Mexican DC-6 would all pass this point on short final runway 09L within 20 minutes… Paradise!