'Parks College plane.' 57-5903 to MASDC in 1968, but returned to service. To N10PC in May 1972, indeed registered to Parks College of Saint Louis University. Photo from: Saint Louis University

Flying over the campus of Parks College at KCPS. The school moved into St Louis in 1996. This Parks P-2A was manufactured here in 1929, although assembly was by Detroit Aircraft which marketed the P-2A as the Ryan Speedster for a while. During the 1960s this airframe was owned by modern barnstormer and writer Richard Bach. Photo by: Jim Schroeder / Saint Louis University

Sponsored by The Elks Magazine, four Studebaker President cars drove from NY to LA in 1929 and this plane, painted in the purple and white Elks colours, apparently made an associated "Coast to Coast Flight'. The P-2 was a development of the P-1 with an Axelson radial and top wing ailerons removed - similar changes as on the Fairchild KR-34 which was based on the same design. The P-2A version had a Wright J-6 Whirlwind. A lighter model of 1932 was the P-1H, powered by a 100-hp Kinner radial and produced by Hammond Aircraft as the Hammond 100 Sportster. Photo by: Vic Stuhr / Saint Louis University

The Parks P-1 was a licensed copy of the Kreider-Reisner Challenger, which itself became the Fairchild KR-34. The P-1 retained the original WWI vintage OX-5 engine and 45 P-1s were built at Cahokia, across the Mississippi from Saint Louis. Oliver Parks founded Parks Air College here in 1927. Photo dated 'circa 1929'. NC353K was registered between 1929 and 1936. Photo from: Saint Louis University

Ex 42-68758, a D-Day veteran. N44997 served with TWA and North Central Airlines till 1962, then with various users including the Horseshoe Development Corp from Arkansas. To Beilers Crop Service in 1975. To K&K Aircraft as N1FN in 1986. The DC-3 collided with power lines and crashed while spraying for gypsy moths near Capon Bridge, West Virginia on 19 May 1990. Both pilots lost their lives. Photo from: Saint Louis University

Destroyed in a fatal crash on a test flight after maintenance from Fort Sill-Henry Post, OK in 1987.

Later converted to a C-12C. Sold as N41R in 2006. Cancelled from the register in 2018.