A nice Sunday morning flyby by the Palm Springs Air Museum C-47

Initially delivered to RAF in March 1945 as KN397; Seen here wearing special livery to celebrate the 50th DC-3 Anniversary.

Recently ferried to Buffalo Airways at Red Deer. Engines immediately removed and put into Buffalo Joe's fleet of DC-3's

Note the modified cockpit windows on this aircraft.

Crashed near Fort Lauderdale on April 24, 1980.

Reregistered VH-PAT in 1958. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Looks like it was just left along the fence at Guayaquil Airport in Ecuador.

In addition to their military FAE serial, all militairy C-47s in Ecuador also carried a civil HC-AUx registration. However, this one seems to have lost its military serial, and the civil reg looks more like H6-AUT. Now preserved at the airforce museum at the old airport in Quito.

Formerly Air Atlantique's G-AMSV. Became N347DK in Feb 2008, and initially stored at Coventry, as seen here. Flown to Dublin-Weston in Nov 2009, but in Jun 2011 it returned to the UK, to Kemble, where a restoration was started for the Indian Air Force Vintage Flight. Reverted to G-AMSV in Sep 2014, and flown back to Coventry in May 2015. Painted in Indian Air Force markings, initially as KN397, its original serial. But in 2018 it was allocated official Indian Air Force serial VP905 (previously carried by C-47A c/n 12581) and named Parashurama. On 17 Apr 2018 it departed Coventry as such, on delivery to India.

G-AMRA, adorned with ClassicFlight.com titles, is receiving some tender loving care in the Air Atlantique Classic Flight hangar. On 30 Jul 2013 this DC-3, operated by Air Atlantique since 1981, departed Coventry for the last time, on delivery to new owner Air Service Berlin. It was intended as the replacement for their first DC-3 D-CXXX (c/n 32872) which had crashlanded in Jun 2010. By May 2014 G-AMRA was still in basic Air Atlantique colours but now with registration D-CXXX applied. However, in 2019 the entire project was suddenly abandoned and this lovely DC-3 was offered for sale or scrap.

Operating for Air Atlantique since 1982. Became part of the Air Atlantique Historic Flight (later Air Atlantique Classic Flight) circa 2003, and was painted in its original Royal Air Force Transport Command markings as KK116 in 2005. By 2010 it was part of Coventry's Airbase museum, and it was still there by April 2018.

At the time this strikingly painted DC-3 was operated by owner Air Atlantique for Thales Avionics Ltd, serving as a testbed for the Searchwater 2000 MR radar for the Nimrod 2000 project. It was withdrawn from use on 19 Oct 2010 and the big radome was removed in early 2012. The aircraft became part of Mike Collett's Airbase Museum and it was still at Coventry by April 2018.

This side only shows the ANA logo on the rudder, but the left side still carried full "Australian National Airways" titles and also the faint traces of the fake registration VH-ANA for film work.

A very nice makeover by the volunteers at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Previously with the Israeli Air Force

Sold in the US as N87664 in 1986.

ZK-AZL returns from cropdusting work.

This Air Atlantique DC-3 was painted into this beautiful old Northwest Airlines livery in the mid-1980s. It is marked with fake registration NW21711, having no civil use in the USA in its past history.

Several Soviet C-47s visited Dübendorf in July 1945, bringing a delegation demanding the repatriation of Soviet citizens who had ended up in Switzerland during the war. Formerly 43-49075, this C-47B-10DK was assigned to the Russians in November 1944. On a photo of CCCP-L1011, seen in the foreground here, -L960 appears to have a painted out military red star on the tailfin. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

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