RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 1198. Douglas DC-3-454 (N85K c/n 4992)
Photographed at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by Ron Dupas

Douglas DC-3-454

04/30/2009. Built for American Airlines as a DC-3-454, NC14282 but not delivered. To USAAF as C-49J s/n 43-1967, on October 30, 1942. On October 18, 1944, to civil registry as NC19939 with Trans World Airlines (fleet number 348), later reregistered N19939.

On January 16, 1953 to Union Steel and Wrecking Co, subsequently as N75B to Beldex Aviation, on October 6, 1953 as N85K to Kewanee Oil, later to Foreign Manufacturing Finance Corp. In August 1968 to Reading Aviation Service and converted to DC-3A. Thereafter it became N31113, N85WE and XA-JOI.