DC-3 series ID request

L-5jockey

Help!

Need Ident details on this DC-3 (C-47) aircraft.

Known: approx photo date 1978, location: KTUS photog: unknown.

Scanned from my slide collection (35mm-remount)...

Unknown: serial, c/n (msn) or a previous Registration :?:

Looks like a basic hulk, open for display (museum, gate guard??)

Thanks

John

Helicopterfriend

According to Joe Baugher

7723 (c/n 4201) to USAAF Feb 42 - To Minn ANG after the war, then USAF Museum (1971). Now at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

PeterNicholson

Whilst the infn from Baugher is in itself correct, the aircraft whose identity is sought is NOT 41-7723, now with the Pima Air & Space Museum. The National Museum of the USAF inventory as at 1 July 1974 shows that aircraft on loan to Pima and John gives the approximate date for his photograph as 1978.

Indeed, this particular DC-3 was certainly present at Tucson Airport in May 1973, but, as John says, no registration markings were visible.

Peter

L-5jockey

This is the shot I have of 41-7723 at Pima in 1980 (less than 2 years between the two pix in this thread.) One can see some obvious differences.

Note the tail beacons, engine mount/cowl assy, astrodome, leftside venturi placement,etc.

I'm not convinced that they are the same frames.

Thanks HELICOPTERFRIEND and PETER for feedback.

John

L-5jockey

Think we found the ID:

C-47B-50 (C-47D) 45-1074 cn: 17077 / 34344

reported scrapped / disassembled (date?) and fuselage in storage at PIMA..

Image links:

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_display.php?otype=366&types=362,366,686,1520,1628,1741&aircraft=54341

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/2008/us08/az/tucson_pima/pages/IMG_4760.htm

John :)

JohnMeneely

I was going through some of my old photos and found a shot of 45-1074, taken at the Pima Air Museum in Oct. 1982. I've attached the photo.

Considering it's still wearing its USAF serial, MASDC code CB393, and full USAF colors, it's unlikely that this is the C-47 photographed at TUS in 1978.

Wish I could shed more light on this mystery!

Cheers,

John