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jungle
28th of April 2007 (Sat), 19:05
Bassler turbine conversion
spitfirejd
29th of April 2007 (Sun), 16:17
I saw one in Alaska. Where were these taken?
Unagi_nl
29th of April 2007 (Sun), 16:19
Waste of a perfectly beautiful plane if you ask me :P
SnowJ
30th of April 2007 (Mon), 00:09
Nice catch, those aren't terribly common that's for sure...unless you go to Colombia or Thailand really. I have NO idea where it was taken either...
Hank E
30th of April 2007 (Mon), 09:48
Very cool. I never have seen the turbo version before. Flew into San Juan, Puerto Rico and saw about a dozen C-47s sitting near hangars. That was cool too.
TooTall
30th of April 2007 (Mon), 20:59
There are two C-47s that fly out of Long Beach everyday hauling freight and mail to Catalina Island and up the coast. Last I heard there are still about 300 DC3/C-47s still in revenue service around the world.

Cheers,
Kurt O.
Canuck
30th of April 2007 (Mon), 23:21
I saw one in Alaska. Where were these taken?

Just a thought...you sure it wasn't a DC-6? Northern Air Cargo (NAC) flies DC-6s out of Anchorage to remote areas interstate.
spitfirejd
1st of May 2007 (Tue), 18:34
Seen those too. Even seen a couple of old C-133's hauling cargo around the Aleutians. There's some weird planes!
JWright
1st of May 2007 (Tue), 20:15
It's probably much more efficient, but it sure destroys the lines of a classic aircraft...