DC-3/C47 parts for sale

We received word from E David;

“Hi, I saw this item on eBay and thought you might be interested.”

DC-3 DC3 C-47 C47 and P&W 1830 Parts Inventory Current bid: US $6,000.00 End time: 30-Aug-09 20:15:54 EDT

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140341602711&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:CA:1123

Walt Disney in a DC-3

We Just received this word from Staff Member Angel:

Walt Disney along with some other artists were sent by our government to South America in 1941 for a goodwill visit.  They flew in a DC-3  
The film/documentary will be released this September.  
See picture below and see the trailer for the upcoming movie:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmwqA0KNmfk

C-47 The Black Sparrow

We just received a report that”

“A fully restored Douglas C-47 troop transport, The Black Sparrow, is operating at Chicago-Lansing Municipal Airport in Lansing, IL. “

Harrison Ford flies “Duggy” at Oshkosh

news in from the EAA Air Venture at Oshkosh… really great show and we see by this picture that the DC-3 “Duggy” was present…

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10001313-5.html?tag=mncol

Young Eagles, Chairman, Harrison Ford flies “Duggy”...

http://www.duggy.com/DUGGY2009/DUGOSHK05.html

My first flight by DC-3

We heard from Hilmar Ilton Santana Ferreira
Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

I love a lot DC-3 aircraft.
I am a Brazilian, now 72 years old, I had my first flight by the DC-3 plane of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB-Força Aérea Brasileira) "Correio Aéreo Nacional -CAN" ( National Air  Mail ). It was free; Otherwise to me it was then impossible to travel by plane.
I remember the first time, a long time ago,.  the trip was from Petrolina, Pernambuco, where I was born, to Fortaleza,  capital city of Ceará state. We were ready on the runway to begin the flight, than the aircraft went back to the airport terminal and one began to fix the engine .
We waited a long time to repair the machine an then we  went  into the beautiful DC-3 and go ahead in a so happy voyage.
One of the most beautiful thing of DC-3  was the position of  its wheels: two at front and one behind, just contrary to present day aircrafts.
What a memory from the DC-3!

US Navy BuNo 17221, LC-47H Blog

We found this blog set up by Richard Wesley

http://ferrymeadaeronauticalsociety.blogspot.com/

Lots of great pictures and the restoration process.

DC-3 seen in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania

We heard from Martin Ireland:

Last week I returned from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and took off from a tiny dirt airstrip by Ngaruroro crater in a DHC-6 Twin Otter to Kilimanjaro Airport. When I arrived, I saw a DC-3 taxiing onto the apron in front.

When I asked our pilot she informed me that there were a couple Dakotas still knocking around, used by Safari rangers to transport big cats to vets and sometimes for the Flying Doctor Services to airstrips servicing Masai villages.

I think it was originally donated by the Australian Flying Doctor Service and, due to the dry climate and simplicity of the DC-3, is still operational on a regular basis.

'Regional Air Service' (RAS), a civil derivative of the military 'Regional Air Transport' (RAT), operating out of Kilimanjaro Airport inherited all sorts of elderly planes, including DC-3's from Uganda when Idi Amin's regime collapsed. Many of these are still flying. There's also a Lockheed Electra parked on the apron at Nairobi's regional airport too.