Registration / Serial: | TC-KUS |
Alternate Registration: | TC-KUŞ |
Fleet number: | 2 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird |
Aircraft Version: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird D-2 |
C/n (msn): | 2007 |
City / Airport: | Ankara - Güvercinlik (LTAB)Map |
Country: | Turkey |
Photo Date: | May 1935 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 369262Submit Correction |
View count: | 1166 |
Fourteen Kingbird D-2s were built, two of which were exported to Turkey to provide the first air link between Ankara and Istanbul, via Eskişehir. NC601V (c/n 2007) became T.H.P.207 with Türk Hava Postalari in February 1933. Later that year it was transferred to Devlet Hava Yollari (DHY), predecessor of THY, as TC-KUŞ (with cedilla), fleet number 2. Here it is being inspected in Ankara by Atatürk, presumably at Güvercinlik. The other Kingbird, NC602V (c/n 2008), became T.H.P.208, then TC-102C with DHY (fleet number 1). It reportedly carried the name Kelebek (butterfly).
Registration / Serial: | TC-KUS |
Alternate Registration: | TC-KUŞ |
Aircraft Version: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird D-2 |
C/n (msn): | 2007 |
City / Airport: | Ankara - Güvercinlik (LTAB)Map | Country: | Turkey |
Photo Date: | May 1935 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | TC-KUS |
Alternate Registration: | TC-KUŞ |
Fleet number: | 2 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird |
Aircraft Version: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird D-2 |
C/n (msn): | 2007 |
City / Airport: | Ankara - Güvercinlik (LTAB)Map |
Country: | Turkey |
Photo Date: | May 1935 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 369262Submit Correction |
View count: | 1166 |
Fourteen Kingbird D-2s were built, two of which were exported to Turkey to provide the first air link between Ankara and Istanbul, via Eskişehir. NC601V (c/n 2007) became T.H.P.207 with Türk Hava Postalari in February 1933. Later that year it was transferred to Devlet Hava Yollari (DHY), predecessor of THY, as TC-KUŞ (with cedilla), fleet number 2. Here it is being inspected in Ankara by Atatürk, presumably at Güvercinlik. The other Kingbird, NC602V (c/n 2008), became T.H.P.208, then TC-102C with DHY (fleet number 1). It reportedly carried the name Kelebek (butterfly).
Registration / Serial: | TC-KUS |
Alternate Registration: | TC-KUŞ |
Aircraft Version: | Curtiss 55 Kingbird D-2 |
C/n (msn): | 2007 |
City / Airport: | Ankara - Güvercinlik (LTAB)Map | Country: | Turkey |
Photo Date: | May 1935 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |