12/02/2007. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The DC-3S was original built for American Airlines as a DC-3-277D c/n 4122, fitted with two 1,000 hp Wright GR1820-202A. The registration NC33662 was reserved, but not taken up, as the aircraft was converted before delivery to a DC-3-396 C-50-DO, and went to the USAAF in July 1941, serialed 41-7700. In July 1944 it was sold to American Airlines, registered as NC15579. It was returned to Douglas in February 1949.
It became the second DC-3S prototype (c/n 43159) fitted with 1,450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2000-D7 radials (the first had 1,475 hp Wright R-1820-C9HEs). In April 1951 it was reregistered N30000, being the fourth aircraft registered as such. It was sold to the Harbert Construction Company, Birmingham, Alabama, in December 1958, registered as N222HC.
Thereafter it was registered to at least 20 different owners in the USA and Mexico, registered as N222HC, N223R, XB-NIW, N567M, N53315,
and finally as N30TN. It is still registered as such as of this day.
The DC-4 was delivered to the USAAF as a C-54A-5-DC, s/n 42-72183, on March 8, 1944. Struck off charge on March 31, 1947, it was converted to a DC-4 and registered to United Air Lines as N30068, named 'Cargoliner Cape Cod'. On July 27, 1956, it was sold to Giles Co., who leased it to Pasific Southwest Airlines till November 1960. In March 1961 the aircraft was sold to Starways of Liverpool, UK, registered as G-ARJY. It was damaged beyond repair on September 19, 1961, when it crash-landed at Dublin, Collinstown, Ireland, on September 19, 1961, the 4 crew and 69 passengers escaped injuries.
The DC-6B was manufactured in 1953. While on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan, to Cairo, Egypt on February 20, 1956, it flew into the ground in a nose down altitude, 35 mls (56 km) south-east of Cairo. Only 5 of the 8 crew and 6 of the 55 passengers survived the crash.
The DC-7 was the first of the type for American Airlines and was delivered in April 1954, named Texas. It was withdrawn from use in May 1959, and subsequently scrapped."
