PBA Douglas DC-3 Flight Of Two

This movie was filmed two months after the final day of operations at PBA (Provincetown Boston Airlines) when George Felton, the Director of Operations gave me the honor of ferrying one of the last two Douglas DC-3s from the PBA fleet from Hyannis, MA to Marco Island, FL.

Background Music, Learning to Fly by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Video Footage, Animations, Sound Effects, Edited and Produced by Myself.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• PBA
• DC-3
• Provincetown
• Boston
• Airlines
• Cape
• Cod
• Vintage
• Airline

[riceboy1701e]

I salute all of YOU who made flying relaxing, enjoyable and FUN!

I miss those days. Flying today is nothing more than an expensive and haggling way to get from A to B.

[lucabrasi1337]

I remember doing the masking on those airplanes in HYA during the late summer/early fall of 88 ," EASTERN EXPRESS". I was furloughed about two weeks after finishing the last one, right after we boxed up the last of the parts in the supply room.

[basketmaker1]

Started July 1970 (my 18th birthday) as the seasonal MIA Station Manager (Note: it was "Naples Airlines Division of Provincetown-Boston Airlines"). Alone during the summer and #2 in the winter. Everything (file cabinets, personnel, all but one or two aircraft) moved south to APF for the winter.

It was L-10's, Cherokee Six's, Aztecs, 1-Cessna 402 "N402PB" and the Grand Lady of the Skies the DC-3's. All of them!

Thanks for the memories and the tears in my eyes thinking back 40 years!

[ROYNEPTUNE]

Hey man, This is great...I worked for Piedmont Airlines/USAirways and a friend working for Piedmont arranged a pass for me on PBA from MIA-SRQ back in the mid-eighties on the PBA DC-3. Wish I had taken my camera. They gave me a PBA print at the time and said this particular plane had the most hours logged on an airplane in the world! Is this true? It seem plausible given the age and type of equipment. Thanks for the great video

[rirover]

PBA was the best...we took the dc 3 frequently from New Bedford to Nantucket...now that was flying....

[022921]

Great Video!!! Long live the DC-3.

[keywestjj]

Greatest airline of all time. PBA from EYW to MIA was my last flight in a DC3 ... probably 1984 ... my first was on Capital Airlines in 1949 at age 11 days ... DEN to MKG via ORD. RIP PBA

[sickkat44]

i threw bags at logan for eastern airlines in 1986 and you guys were right out our baggage area. i never got to take a ride but always admired you and watched you take off and land when i could. thanks for the great memories. what ever happened to the fleet? i heard it was retired and abandoned down south somewhere. please supply some info if you can, thanks again

[trader891]

Great video, bu i would have preferred it without the music. We flew PBA DC-3's to Nantucket for our honeymoon in 1983.

[stkajean100]

Second the motion for the reunion!

Kate PBA HYA #1036 (baggage, cabin service, F/A, ramp)