Old Aircraft ID Need Some Help From The Old Timers
 

Looks like a DC-3 / C-46 to me what is it?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1296452561.jpg

It looks like a DC3. It could be a C-117 though.
edit.. not a C-117, no supercharger scoops.

it's a DC-3

there's a C-46 still operational at the local airport. sounds like nothing else in the world on takeoff.

It could be a Boeing 307 Stratoliner. I am looking at the main gear trapeze and the side windows.

good call on the side windows.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1296461760.jpg

Just what do you mean "old timers" with that question????

I have flown a DC-3 so it cannot be that old... can it? :)

I have flown in one ,so it can't possibly be that old. LOL!!!

Sorry, the odds are the correct answer will come from some one with gray hair. :D

Boeing 307 Stratoliner ? the gear structure looks very similar to the picture.

Great airplane. There are still a few flying. I was in San Juan a couple of weeks ago and saw seven on the tarmac.

Neither.

It's a Boeing 307 Stratoliner, has 4 engines. (Military was C-75). Fairly rare, only 20 or so were ever built (I think). It was the FIRST pressurized US airliner.

And, it was based on the WWII B-17 bomber (wings, tail, gear, engines). (PanAM, TWA used a few).


A Douglas DC-3 is a C-47 (not C-46). Twin engines. There were 10's of thousands of them. Cheap to fly, reliable.


A C-46 is a Curtiss-Wright 'Commando'. Twin engines. A lot fewer built than the C-47. Were VERY expensive to fly (high maintenence cost and used a LOT more fuel than the C-47). Mostly used as cargo planes after the war.


A few gray hairs... :)

Thanks !

Thought you were going to ask who the guy without the overcoat was... whew.