Built as a C-53D for the USAAF as 42-68750. Later converted to a DC-3A for civil use. To Delta Air Lines as NC88854 in Nov 1945. To North Central on 28 Apr 1958. To Shawnee Airlines in 1974 and flying with Mercy Airlift as N28MA by Oct 1978. To KDD Aviation on 23 Nov 1984. Registration cancelled on 08 Aug 2013 as expired.

Operating for the Doobie Brothers band and named 'Crewbie Liner' Originally built for the USAAF as C-53 41-20092 and delivered on 29 Jan 1942. Later to the civil register as NC15572, N83B, N26J, N26S then N2647 on 26 Jan 1956. PWFU in a derelict condition at San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2004. Registration cancelled on 07 Jun2017.

Big Lift-memory, operated by Southwind Aviation.

Ex VH-BAB cancelled from the Australian register in 1979 and subsequently displayed at museums in New South Wales and Victoria before being transported by road to Mareeba.

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East African Airways meets West African Airways in Maiduguri. This was certainly not a regular destination for EAA. Ex 43-48345, KJ822 and G-AKDT, the Dakota only served EAA from June 1950 until late 1952. Later registrations F-BGOU, ET-ACZ, F-OCRR, 6V-ACZ and CR-GBL. The Bristol Freighter is VR-NAD. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois

Later converted to an EC-47Q

Ex 42-23546, FD862. To BOAC as G-AGHP in August 1943. Reported ferried to Tripoli, Libya on 11 October 1943. Listed as based at Bristol - Whitchurch at the end of 1945. The logo with the word Speedbird is thought to be postwar. Dakotas carried out the UK - Lagos route, via Lisbon and Bathurst, until July 1947. G-AGHP was seriously damaged at Croydon in August 1947, which thwarted a transfer to Hong Kong Airways - VR-HDO not taken up. To BEA in December 1948. Converted to Leopard class freighter in 1953. Crashed in France in 1958 carrying a Formula 1 car engine for the Vanwall team to Nice for the Monaco Grand Prix. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois