Photographer: Claudio Maranta - Preserved at Frankfurt Berlin Airlift Museum as 43-49081

Previously USAAF 43-16408, and NC51179 with TWA since Jan 1946. To ET-T-12 in the late 1940s, still with TWA. Arrived at Prestwick in Oct 1949, then converted to engine carrier for TWA with the Douglas "Plan D" prototype conversion kit by Scottish Aviation between Nov 1952 and Apr 1953. Back to N51179 in the mid 1950s, and later to F-OBCT, 5R-MAK and ET-AGM. Written off in March 1980 in Ethiopia. The same registration ET-T-12 was later carried by C-82 Packet "Ontos" (c/n 10184), also a TWA engine carrier.

operated by AVESCA - crashed nr. Medellin in 2004 while operating for Aerovanguardia - photographer unknown

Second DC-3 in Chile, from 1946, ex 45-990. Not a paramilitary aircraft - the circular LAN logo was never the air force roundel. Photographed by the globetrotting Sophie Petersen probably in 1952 at 'Balmacedas'. Balmaceda was a stop on the Santiago - Punta Arenas route. We understand that the airfield was once called Leonor, but it is assumed to be the same location as modern SCBA. CC-CLL to CC-CLDH in 1957 and to CC-CBN in 1963. Withdrawn in 1976. Note that this is not construction number 26794/15349, which was CC-CLL in the 1990s. Photo by: Sophie Petersen / National Museum of Denmark

ex USAAF, RAF, Arctic Air, Air Inuit. Became N133FS with Four Star Air Cargo (photographer unknown)

Stored later at Luqa, Malta. Part of the Malta Aviation Museum in 2002.

Photo: McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

ex ZK-BQK and NZ3544

Used by the Alabama Institute of Aviation Technology

KK143 on an aeromedical flight. Used as a target tug in 1952-53 with 123(R) Unit at Sea Island. Struck off charge in 1970 and sold as CF-AUQ. Photo from: Greater Vernon Museum and Archives

There are three larger propliners along the runway at Pucallpa, this should be PT-JAS (fake registration) or previously HK-2665, impounted over 25 years ago for illegal transports. Still a large problem in this part of Peru. Picture taken from a passenger flight departing Pucallpa for Iquitos.

Ex USAAF 44-76488, delivered on 19 Mar'45, 2 days later to RAF Montreal as KN397 on where it ended up with 12MU at Oakington on 8 Sep'47. It became G-AMSV in May'52, then N347DK in Feb'08. Sold to Rajeev Chandrasekhar in 2011 and donated by him to the Indian AF Vintage Flight at AFS Hindon on 13 Feb'18. It received serial VP905, the same as the first C-47 in Indian service that transported the troops in 1947. It departed the UK on delivery to India on 17 Apr'18, arriving there on 26 Apr'18. It is named Parashurama, the sixth avatar among the Dashavatara of the preserver god Vishnu in Hinduism