Registration / Serial: | N18262 |
Alternate Registration: | F-WSGY |
Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 9371 |
City / Airport: | Glasgow - Prestwick (EGPK / PIK)Map |
Region / Country: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | April 1974 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Photo ID: | 444114Submit Correction |
View count: | 535 |
Wartime service with USAAF as 42-23509. Joined the Czechoslovak Government in 1946. Transferred from the Czechoslovakian Air Force to France's Armée de l'Air in 1960 as 23509. Bought in 1972 by Rousseau Aviation and registered F-WSGY. Sold in the US in 1974. Seen here as N18262 in transit through Prestwick to its new owners, the Aircraft Surplus Company of Tucson, AZ. Sold again in 1975, to Canada as C-GWIR. Moved from Northwest Territorial Airways to Buffalo Airways in 1994. Suffered an engine fire and crashlanded at Yellowknife, NWT in Aug 2013. Still there by 2016, reportedly awaiting repairs.
Registration / Serial: | N18262 |
Alternate Registration: | F-WSGY |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 9371 |
City / Airport: | Glasgow - Prestwick (EGPK / PIK)Map | Region / Country: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | April 1974 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Registration / Serial: | N18262 |
Alternate Registration: | F-WSGY |
Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 9371 |
City / Airport: | Glasgow - Prestwick (EGPK / PIK)Map |
Region / Country: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | April 1974 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Photo ID: | 444114Submit Correction |
View count: | 535 |
Wartime service with USAAF as 42-23509. Joined the Czechoslovak Government in 1946. Transferred from the Czechoslovakian Air Force to France's Armée de l'Air in 1960 as 23509. Bought in 1972 by Rousseau Aviation and registered F-WSGY. Sold in the US in 1974. Seen here as N18262 in transit through Prestwick to its new owners, the Aircraft Surplus Company of Tucson, AZ. Sold again in 1975, to Canada as C-GWIR. Moved from Northwest Territorial Airways to Buffalo Airways in 1994. Suffered an engine fire and crashlanded at Yellowknife, NWT in Aug 2013. Still there by 2016, reportedly awaiting repairs.
Registration / Serial: | N18262 |
Alternate Registration: | F-WSGY |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 9371 |
City / Airport: | Glasgow - Prestwick (EGPK / PIK)Map | Region / Country: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | April 1974 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |