Dakota...

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
Today, at one o clock, a Dakota went by our village of Dunlavin, here in darkest West Wickla.Lovely rumbly radial sounds...anyone see it and can identify it?
regards
GttC

[Frank]

Hi GttC,

It was probably the DC-3 that arrived in Shannon at about 2pm today from Liverpool, I've got a picture of it just about to touch down, I'll post it the pic when I can.


Regards,

Frank.

[Irish251]

You can read all about it here:

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/dc3-n5831b.htm

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
Nice work.It went over Blessington at 15.20 today.
regards
GttC

[Fouga]

Frank is everywhere isnt he! '>

[Frank]

For GttC:



Larger image here: http://www.irishairpics.com/database/photo/1009790/

Fouga... right place, right time!

[Hess]

Dont you mean a DC-3. After all yank reg. Nice pic.

[Tony Kearns]

It was built as a C47 which is the military version as the DC3 and was known as the Dakota in the RAF. Nice picture Frank.
Tony K

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
Lovely picture,Frank the Omnipresent...the first aircraft I ever flew in was Air Atlantique's G-AMPO at an airshow in Farranfore, so Daks have a special appeal to me.
regards
GttC

[Tony Kearns]

I hope that I am not going off thread. Checking through my files and other references there seems to be a lot of confusion about G - Ampo and it's former identity.Can any of you civil aircraft specialists out there put it right?
Tony K

[pilatus]

was the corps ever offered DC-3s?the way they are still going today it would have been a good investment!they could have been upgraded with turboprops just like several latin american and asian countries have done!thailand recently recieved "new" standard C47s with basler turboprops GPS and a modern cockpit!the ones they recieved were built in 1944 i think it was!a remarkable plane!

[Irish251]

Tony, does this help?

G-AMPO Dakota IV c/n 16438/33186, ex-RAF KN566, first registered as G-AMPO 25/02/1952, became LN-RTO of Polaris Air Transport Feb. 1965, restored as G-AMPO June 1969.

Source "British Dakotas", Aviation Hobby Shop 1984

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
Isn't G-AMPO now on display as KN566 and painted in D-Day RAF colours?
regards
GttC

[Tony Kearns]

Thanks SF for that. Air Britain Publication The Douglas DC3 and it predecessors states that G-AMPO was 16437/33185 44-76853. It lists 16438/33186 as 44-76854 a TC-47B del May 1945. to USN 99833 as R4D-7 Clinton 14 May 1945.
Tony K

[Irish251]

Tony, that's interesting.  Air Britain are, as you are probably aware, about to issue a much updated volume on the DC-3, so it will be interesting to see what it says.  The official CAA register website G-INFO shows the c/n as 33186.  I also have an old 1970s Midland Counties book on the complete UK civil register, which gives the same information.