A sad day - the last DC3 in the US retires...

[AnotherOneJustGreat]

FAA C-3, that is: http://www.avweb.com...um221452-1.html

As soon as we got that brilliant VC for Manfred Jahns C-47, I'll have to do a memorial flight myself...

 

[Spad54]

FAA C-3, that is: http://www.avweb.com...um221452-1.html

As soon as we got that brilliant VC for Manfred Jahns C-47, I'll have to do a memorial flight myself...

Its the last one owned by the FAA. There are still many examples flying today

 

[Blackbird686]

To the Best of my knowing, "Buffalo Airways" still has an in service DC-3.

BB686

 

[flaviossa]

Correct me if i´m wrong, but Buffalo Airways operates in Canada? As OP said the last in US not Canada.

 

[AnotherOneJustGreat]

I actually qualified the posting to refer just to FAA-operated DC-3s, read the first three words...

So Buffalo is probably Canada afaik, and there are other non-FAA DC-3s still flying, luckily.

 

[airattackimages]

Who cares about the FAA, lol. There are two private owned regularly flying DC-3s two blocks from my house, and almost 10 C-47s within an hours drive of me. I've never once seen an FAA DC-3 outside of pictures. No difference to me.

 

[Jafo]

Last plane I flew in....Melbourne to King Island [where I was born...and how I left there 59 years ago]...

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Still flying, BTW....