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.
thats crazy, shes a beautiful aircraft that no one likes, except for me and um the ohter guy that said he does...
i have seen the japanese one ,but am amazed on the looks of this paint job or well chromeized livery, i can see how it wasnt used for alot of pax flights but used for military flights if so id like to say that im more interested in findind out how many dc-5s were converted or created as the R3D