Another one bites the dust...DC3

[CaptainYoda]

Remember:
If it's ugly, it's probably British
If it's weird, it's probably French
If it's ugly and weird, it's probably Russian

I, too would love to fly the AN2
Big as a Twin Otter, flys as slow as a Piper Cub
It'd be like driving an old Mac truck, but slower and slightly louder

Would like to fly a BT-67 even more.

 

[z987k]

The Beriev 200 is high on my list.

 

[Roger Roger]

There is a turbine AN-2 in Anchorage. I am intrigued.

With a TPE331-12.

 

[ASpilot2be]

With a TPE331-12.

Really the only acceptable option.

 

[killbilly]

With a TPE331-12.

What? Speak up.

 

[FloridaLarry]

If you like the BT-62, how about the Conroy Turbo Three? It's what the Douglas designers would build if somebody asked them for a new version of the Ford Trimotor.

This from the designer of the Pregnant Guppy, Turbo Guppy and Mini Guppy. Goes to prove that ugly aircraft aren't the exclusive purview of the Brits and Russkies.

Jack Conroy's story is incredible. He gave up a promising career as a Hollywood leading man and was digging holes for underground fuel tanks at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He enlisted, captained a B-17 for 19 missions, was a POW at a Stalag Luft camp, airline pilot for a dozen years, started designing, buillding and flying transport aircraft. Clay Lacy was his co-pilot on the first flight of the Pregnant Guppy. Some of the Guppies are still flying!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

They do...the AN-2

Airplane going slow therefore long time to all destination. Please having peed before flight.

 

[stroboli62]

BT67 ...a Beauuutiful ship...climbed the wings a few times at MSP at the Fedex pit back in around 1987-89 timeframe when they were the "thang" a few years before the USFS put em on their radar

 

[averdung]

An another DC3 is down in Canada, (Basler turbo prop mod), first flight for that frame seems to be 1943 ! I'm not a DC3 expert but why would you still fly these things for more than 70 years, 76 to be exact, how safe and economical is it ?
Not long ago one (radial) crashed in Colombia. Luckily in this later occurrence evryone got out OK

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Basler rebuilds the frame for all practical purposes. Airplanes are not like cars: a well-maintained airplane can fly as long as there are spare parts, and we could theoretically get an old Wright B flying after a good inspection. The DC-3's only "weak" spot is the radial, and that's only because it's a piston engine; the BT-67 conversion takes care of that and puts a bulletproof PT6 instead. Douglas used to make eternal airplanes (see DC-3, DC-8, DC-9) and even the DC-10 got over the first door problems (Chicago doesn't count, AA screwup) and she's still going strong.

Colombia bought some Basler conversions for their air force DC-3s, and set them up as modernized Spookys with miniguns out the cargo door and a fixed sight in the pilot's side window like the old gunshipsin Vietnam.

 

[ahw01]

Remember:
If it's ugly, it's probably British
If it's weird, it's probably French
If it's ugly and weird, it's probably Russian

I, too would love to fly the AN2
Big as a Twin Otter, flys as slow as a Piper Cub
It'd be like driving an old Mac truck, but slower and slightly louder

Would like to fly a BT-67 even more.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Basler rebuilds the frame for all practical purposes. Airplanes are not like cars: a well-maintained airplane can fly as long as there are spare parts, and we could theoretically get an old Wright B flying after a good inspection. The DC-3's only "weak" spot is the radial, and that's only because it's a piston engine; the BT-67 conversion takes care of that and puts a bulletproof PT6 instead. Douglas used to make eternal airplanes (see DC-3, DC-8, DC-9) and even the DC-10 got over the first door problems (Chicago doesn't count, AA screwup) and she's still going strong.

Colombia bought some Basler conversions for their air force DC-3s, and set them up as modernized Spookys with miniguns out the cargo door and a fixed sight in the pilot's side window like the old gunshipsin Vietnam.

The USAF Special Operations Command acquired one in the '90's. I'm not sure of its status.

 

[melax]

DC-3 "missing" (/found) in Colombia [July 08 2021]

77 Year Old Aliansa DC-3 Missing - Presumed Crashed

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[BEEF SUPREME]

Canadian TSB will just classify this as a “hard landing.”

Like this one:
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Boop

 

[Richman]

They do. And they're pretty awesome.
They have so many planes I want to fly.

The only wrinkle is gathering up the 9 other required crew members, to include an engineer, navigator, radio operator and fire man to shovel the coal.

 

[DeltaAlphaNovember]

There used to be a cargo outfit at CLT airport that flew DC-3's. Sabre Cargo was the name of the outfit. I wanted to fly one so bad.

 

[fholbert]

And another DC3 accident today.

Date:	Thursday 8 July 2021
Time:	07:05
Type:	Douglas DC-3C
Operator:	ALIANSA Colombia
Registration:	HK-2820
MSN:	20171
First flight:	1944
Crew:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Missing
Aircraft fate:	Presumed damaged beyond repair
Location:	Guatiquia ( Colombia)
Phase:	Unknown (UNK)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV), Colombia
Destination airport:	?

Narrative:
A Douglas DC-3 is thought to have crashed shortly after takeoff in a riverbed in Guatiquia, Colombia. The aircraft was performing a training flight. The status of the three occupants is unknown at the moment.
Rescue operations are ongoing. Radar contact with the flight was lost in a mountainous area with adverse weather

 

[melax]

And another DC3 accident today.

Date:	Thursday 8 July 2021
Time:	07:05
Type:	Douglas DC-3C
Operator:	ALIANSA Colombia
Registration:	HK-2820
MSN:	20171
First flight:	1944
Crew:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Missing
Aircraft fate:	Presumed damaged beyond repair
Location:	Guatiquia ( Colombia)
Phase:	Unknown (UNK)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV), Colombia
Destination airport:	?

Narrative:
A Douglas DC-3 is thought to have crashed shortly after takeoff in a riverbed in Guatiquia, Colombia. The aircraft was performing a training flight. The status of the three occupants is unknown at the moment.
Rescue operations are ongoing. Radar contact with the flight was lost in a mountainous area with adverse weather

That's the same one I posted...

 

[fholbert]

That's the same one I posted...

 

[CFI A&P]

As mentioned earlier, the BT-67 conversions are a breed of their own. Nothing else matches them for reliability, economy and payload.

These guys operate a couple-three DC3Ts between Florida and Hispaniola doing the Jesus thing with them.

Home - Missionary Flights

Missionary Flights is a Christian nonprofit using aviation to stand in the gap for missions in the Caribbean - specifically Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas.

www.missionaryflights.org

 

[melax]

As mentioned earlier, the BT-67 conversions are a breed of their own. Nothing else matches them for reliability, economy and payload.

These guys operate a couple-three DC3Ts between Florida and Hispaniola doing the Jesus thing with them.

Home - Missionary Flights

Missionary Flights is a Christian nonprofit using aviation to stand in the gap for missions in the Caribbean - specifically Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas.

www.missionaryflights.org

The Aliansa DC-3's as far as I know are not BT conversion they have the radials. DHC-8-300 would be my choice, just saying...