Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:23 pm
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:57 pm
darrenvox wrote:i was searching around today for photos of the very glorious but very forgotten aircraft that is betweem the dc-4 and dc-6, the mighty dc-5..
does anyone know what thew registration was on this one, ive searched long and far but gotten nothing!!
or any reference sites that have all the registrations etc etc??
thanks in advance
Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:28 pm
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Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:34 am
The Inspector wrote:More info-Boeing handed it over to the NAVY as an R3D-3 buaerno 08005. Broken up 6/30/1946.
5 DC-5 airframes delivered to KLM for the east Indonesian routes, used to evacuate civilians until captured by the Japanese. At least one ferried to Japan and tested by the Japanese Army, painted in standard green over gray JAAF scheme with a white band on aft fuselage and hinomarus. All earlier R3D-1's were used by the NAVY or MARINES in mostly bare metal, color pictures are pretty rare, that color picture is the first I've seen of ROVER that wasn't B&W. Hit GOOGLE IMAGES under R3D-3
Even ABCD list is pretty vague on this type, lists no DC-5's and a handful of R3D-1/-3 with BUAERNO's all over the map.
Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:29 am