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New England Air Museum – DC-3 Restoration Update
New England Air Museum – DC-3 Restoration Update
Periodically, we like to catch up on restoration updates from the workshops at the world-class New England Air Museum (NEAM) in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Following on from the completion of their remarkable Burnelli CBY-3 blended-wing cargo plane (which we will cover in another article) we have received the following report from restoration crew member, Carl Cruff, concerning the museum’s rare, original Douglas DC-3/C-49.
While many think the DC-3 survives in large numbers, there are actually very few true DC-3s left, as most of what remain are solely ex-military variants of the breed; the most numerous being C-47 Skytrains and, to a lesser extent, C-53 Skytroopers. But NEAM has an airframe which actually began life as a DC-3 airliner for American Airlines. While the aircraft wasn’t complete before the USA entered WWII, it’s construction was already well underway at the
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