USA and Canada 1980s - DOUGLAS DC-3s: Part 2
Continuing a seelction of my photographs of the many DC-3s seen on North American airields, also the US Virgin Islands
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N37FL at Fort Lauderdale-Executive Airport, Florida in October 1981 had a plush furnished corporate cabin
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N7772 at Fort Lauderdale Executive October 1981 was a corporate aircraft with a Miami business
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C-47 N54610 at Fort Lauderdale Executive October 1981 was one of several ex-Moroccan Air Force C-47s present,
included in a purchase of a cache of .Moroccan T-28 Trojans by warbird trader David Tallichet.
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N230F at Tamiami, Forida October 1981 was used for pilot training by Burnside-Ott Aviation Training Centre
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This attractive privately owned DC-3 N600JD was at Fort Lauderdale in August 1989
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Miami Air Lease Inc DC-3 N902VC at Miami International August 1989 before its sale to Venezuala
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Canadian freight operator Millardair had a fleet of DC-3 Cargoliners and DC-4s at their Toronto base in October 1981
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Millardair DC-3 C-GNOA at Toronto October 1981
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C-GYBA of Yellow Bird Air Ltd at Toronto in October 1981 has uprated power plants
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Questor Mineral Surveys DC-3 C-FIMA at Toronto October 1981, modified with magnetometer sensor system.
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Questor Mineral Surveys DC-3 C-FYED-X had a nose probe and magnetometer loop aerial.
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Former Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 CF-CPY was flown by other Canadian operators before being retired at Whitehorse,
Yukon Territory, where it was mounted at the airport as a rotating wind vane. Photographed September 1981.
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Over the Carribbean in a Delta L1011 in October 1981, bound for the propliner haven of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands
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DC-3s waiting to load passengers at the San Juan, Puerto Rico terminal building in October 1981, with a Dominican Republic
freighter Super Constellation parked behind.
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San Juan maintenance ramp area, taken from a departing DC-3 during a tropical downpour.
I took the following set of photos in this area on a fine sunny morning
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San Juan Airport, Puerto Rico had a graveyard of derelict DC-3s in 1981 dumped to the side of the freight ramp
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The pleasant scene at the airport on the island of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands in October 1981
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Aero Virgin Islands DC-3 N25695 at St Thomas, USVI
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Aero Virgin islands DC-3 N100SD taxies away from the terminal at St Thomas, USVI.
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