1. Ozark Airlines Dc-9

Ozark Air Lines began flight operations in September 1950 with only one passenger using a DC-3 aircraft.Ozark started commerical service September 1950 with 4 - DC-3 aircraft. The first route flew between St. Louis and Chicago with stops at Springfield, Decatur and Champaign Illinois.Late in the 1950's the airline aquired its first turbine powered aircraft, when three Fokker Fairchild F-27 'Friendships' were ordered. Turbo-prop service was initiated in September 1959 with the airlines two most important routes, Chicago-St Louis-Joplin, and St Louis-Minneapolis, both with the required intermediate stops.

Not only would the new aircraft have a cruise speed almost 100 knots faster than the DC-3s, but the 40 seat F-27 would also introduce the new Ozark Swallow image, a logo that would last to the end of the airline, over a quarter of a century later.The airline flew its last flight October 1986 and ceased operating under the name of Ozark Air Lines in October 1986 when TWA bought the carrier and took over it routes and aircraft.

Ozark Airlines Dc-9

The DC-3 is unique. No other flying machine has been an active part of the international commercial avia­tion scene for so many years. It has cruised every sky known to humans, been so ubiquitous, admired, cherished, glamorized and has sparked so many tributes that one may think that it is long gone from the scene, and only its mem­ory remains alive.

Who would have thought back on December 17th, 1935, that in 1996, we would still see it flying, and still earning a living? Certainly not Arthur Raymond, the chief engineer on the DC-3.This entry was posted in on. Mohawk Airlines DC-3-357 N409D (c/n 3277) Mohawk Airlines operated in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, primarily the states of New York and Pennsylvania, from the mid-1940s until its acquisition by Allegheny Airlines in 1972.Like most local trunk carriers in 1960, Mohawk Airlines still had 11 DC-3s in their fleet.

They planned to retire their DC-3 service by the end of 1961 and replace the venerable machine with Convair 240s. They decided their last two DC-3s could serve a dual role. They could spend their last days in an old fashioned, sentimental way, and fill some gaps in Mohawk’s east-west route between Buffalo and Boston.This entry was posted in on.

In June, 1994, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. The first French town to be liberated on ‘D-Day” June 6, 1944, was Sainte-Mere-Eglise.

In that small town is a museum that pays tribute to the 15,000 paratroopers who dropped behind Ger­man lines that day. There is only one airplane in that museum; the airplane that General Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the most important in ensuring the Allied victory of World War II. It is not a P-51 or a B-17, but a C-47 (the military version of the DC-3), one of thousands that flew across the English Channel to help liberate Eu­rope.This entry was posted in on.