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Post by chris13 on Mar 15, 2010 12:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by aeroart on Mar 15, 2010 16:23:50 GMT -5
I looked for that paint scheme on Google Images as "United DC-3." That same one turned up with a link to Boeing's Museum of Flight in Seattle (a great place to visit, if you're in the neighborhood).
There were early UAL DC-3s shown in the Google Images result. You might get more information by going through more of the images than I did.
Art
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Post by acourt on Mar 15, 2010 17:28:20 GMT -5
It sure is! That scheme appeared on at least some of the remaining DC-3s in UAL's fleet during the 1950s. I found two pictures of C-53 freighters that scheme , and I believe UAL's corporate transport DC-3 was also painted that way (she was named for UAL's first stewardess, as I recall).
Al
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Post by sunny9850 on Mar 15, 2010 17:47:54 GMT -5
Knowing Clay Lacy, I very much doubt he would have anything less than a perfectly correct paint job on his airplane  Stefan |
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Post by capflyer on Mar 15, 2010 20:19:25 GMT -5
The aircraft, while not "Mainliner O'Connor", is accurately painted for the real aircraft. Interestingly, the airplane is a C-47B-DK originally delivered to the USAF which spent time as a corporate hack with Standard Spring Steel Company before being sold to Rockwell where it was used as a testbed for a short time. After that it went to the Georgia Department of Air Transportation where it was used as a smoke jumper before going to Mr. Lacy. United Airlines then performed the restoration, including the required modifications to make it a full-fledged DC-3C.
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