slide scan from the NK collection. - Air South operated a total of three Fairchild F-27's between 1973 and 1975. C/n 117, which is shown here after its Air South services, sits in storage at Marana waiting for its next assignment as F-ODBY with Air Polynesie / Air Tahiti, which should last ten years from 1978 till 1988. The aircraft was finally registered as F-GIHR and noted as such in storage at Dinard in 1997, all white, shortly before being broken up.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1951 as N441A for Eastern, stored 1962. Southern Airways N257S 1964, Shawnee Airlines 1976, Air South 1977, Florida Airlines 1978, Ocean Airways 1980. Withdrawn Sarasota, FL for spares use 1981, donated to Airport Fire Service 1983. Last noted 1986, subsequently scrapped.

Cockpit section was seen at the Punta Gorda-Shell Creek Airpark in Florida in 2017

Crashed July 7, 1987 at Cuidad del Camargo, Mexico.

This classic piston-engined airliner was seen at Atlanta amidst the jets.

Built for the USAAF as 42-93189. Other regns include NC88823, N35F and N86B. It is currently preserved in Salzburg, Austria.

Ex N1038C of Commuter Airlines.

Built as a DC-3-277D for American Airlines, NC33656. Later converted to DC-3A.

Built for USAAF as C-53D. Later served Continental and Southern Airways. Modified to DC-3A. Flown by Florida Air Lines from 1972. Later sold to Cuba.

On a scheduled service for Air South who operated the aircraft from February 1974 until sale in March 1977. Later to F-ODBY and F-GIHR.

Early production Beech 99 operated by Air South from new in November 1968 until sale in April 1976.

The piston-engined airliners intermingled with the jets at the old Atlanta terminal. Here the DC-3, a Martin 4-0-4 can be seen with Boeing 727 and 737.