In 2020 DC-3 N28AA was acquired by the Shannon Air Museum and flew to its new home at Shannon Airport (KEZF) near Fredericksburg, Virginia on January 6, 2021. The aircraft was delivered new to Braniff Airways in June 1940 as NC25666, then joined Trans Texas Airways in April 1953 which operated the aircraft until 1968. To Air Midwest in 1970. To Air New England 1971-1977. To Cryderman Air Services 1977. To Century Airline 1978. To Provincetown-Boston Airline/Naples Airlines in 1978 as N139PB. To Bar Harbour with PBA purchase 1987 and retired in 1988. To Alexander Aeroplane Co. 1991-2017.

Photo by Willi Pockall

Ex N25666, registered to PBA as N139PB 13th June 1978 and operated as Eastern Express from March 1988 until the demise of PBA in Sep 1988. Stored for a while and then sold in March 1991, then re-registered N28AA June 1992

Acquired Jun 78 ex Century Airlines N25666. To Alexander Promotions Inc in Jun 92 as N28AA. Noted as still airworthy in 2009. Sold to a private owner May 2017 and based at DeKalb Peachtree Airport GA. Tours air shows and seen flying at Oshkosh WI in July 2019.

Reregistered N28AA.

Built as a DC-3-314A, and delivered to Braniff Airways on June 20, 1940. Other regns were NC25666, N139PB, and N28AA.

I logged 2.5 hours of flight time in this airplane including 10 touch-and-go's. She is still flying and active in 2018. My day with this airplane was documented in Propliner issue No.63.

A very nice DC-3 in a freshly painted Eastern Express outfit, but owned and operated by PBA. Sadly it would only fly in these colours for five months, until being put out of service in September 1988. This venerable aircraft is a real oldie, a pre-war DC-3 (delivered to Braniff in 1940) that never saw any military service. It was sold in 1991 and became N28AA.