Transnorthern Super DC-3s

Trans Northern N30TN Douglas Super DC-3 (DC-3s) (c/n 43159) fires up her radial piston engines prior to taking off from Palmer airport heading back to Anchorage International airport AK. At the controls were veteran Captain A.Larson & R.Hubbard. (video by Andre van Loon date: August 2007). See also my Alaskan big propliner special here: http://www.michaelprophet.com/News_articles/AlSkyTrucks.html

Aircraft history:
This particular aircraft was originally ordered back in October 1940 by American Airlines with a right-hand rear door and with the registration NC33662 reserved, but was not delivered. It entered service 10th January 1941 with the serial 41-7700 (c/n 4122) as a model C-50 It was released from USAAF service in May 1944 and was offered for sale back to American Airlines. It entered civilian service on 3rd July 1944 as "Flagship New Jersey". It was subsequently sold back to the Douglas Aircraft Co. 15th February 1949 where it became the second airframe to be converted to a DC-3S, (Super DC-3) at which point the c/n changed to 43159. This was the second DC-3S to be converted and carried the registration N30000.
After seven years Douglas finally sold it to the Harburt Construction Company as N322HC in 1958. Three years later it was sold to Raytheon who operated it for a couple of years as N223R who in turn sold the aircraft in 1963 to the Burdick Grain Co. in Minneapolis as N6811. Three years later it was sold to Mercantile Bank of Monterey in Mexico where it was registered as XB-NIW were it stayed for over six years. The aircraft was re-imported privately to the USA as N567M in December 1972 and in August 1976 was sold again to Air Travel Associated in Dallas TX In the early Eighties it was used as a drug runner on two occasions each time being seized and eventually sold on. In June 1984 it was sold by the US Drug Enforcement Agency to Aviation Enterprises Addison TX. Who registered it N53315. It went through a couple of owners before finally ending up with the "City Council of Beaufort County" in South Carolina where it was used for spraying Finally in January 2003 it moved to Alaska and was registered N30TN in January 2004. Although the FAA files show the owner as DES LLC, Wilmington, DE

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Transnorthern
• Super
• DC-3s
• Palmer
• Alaska

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