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Originally Posted by MT930
Looks like a DC-3 / C-46 to me what is it?
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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...
