Anybody know the status of this DC-3?

Status = Awesome!

Parked and for sale last I heard. I believe the plane was removed from the floats, and the floats are still for sale.

MTV

mtv wrote:Parked and for sale last I heard. I believe the plane was removed from the floats, and the floats are still for sale.

MTV

I saw "Experimental" on the side of the plane. Is that because of the floats?

Went back to this website (http://www.howitflies.com/Douglas-DC-3)and found this picture:

WOW !!!!! I always thought a Twin Otter on floats was the coolest floatplane in the world but this one is a close second don't think it would fit in the takeoff canal on lake hood Guess u could land on the strip wonder how many moose and caribou u could haul

I saw it at Sun & fun years ago. I am 6'5" and it seems like I just came up to the top of the floats! The pilot must be 30 feet in the air while on the ground??

patrol guy wrote:I saw it at Sun & fun years ago. I am 6'5" and it seems like I just came up to the top of the floats! The pilot must be 30 feet in the air while on the ground??

That's the way I felt in the single Otter on Anphips, always thought I would get hurt falling off the dam thing

The plane is in the grass without floats at Greenville. I didnt see the floats a couple weeks ago. The thing hasnt flown in years. I have a good friend who was on the crew who flew it to SNF a few yrs back. He said it is a huge money pit. The had to change multiple cyls to get from ME to FL, uses nearly as much oil as avgas. Folsoms are a real minority owner, as in they did the maintainance and became an owner. It is owned by a group of men from around Greenville. As with everything in Greenville, Im sure its for sale. The time I got a ride in it, it sure is an antique in every respect. The inside looks like a landfill, a combination of pails of oil, piles of rags, boxes of used cyls, and Mcdonalds wrappers and coffee cups. Sure is unique though, and was purpose built to be a crowd pleaser at Greenville Seaplane fly in.

Scouter wrote: He said it is a huge money pit. It is owned by a group of men from around Greenville. The time I got a ride in it, it sure is an antique in every respect. The inside looks like a landfill, a combination of pails of oil, piles of rags, boxes of used cyls, and Mcdonalds wrappers and coffee cups. Sure is unique though, and was purpose built to be a crowd pleaser at Greenville Seaplane fly in.

Jim

Holy cow Scouter sounds like my second X wife A lot more shiny on the outside then the inside

DonC wrote:

Scouter wrote: He said it is a huge money pit. It is owned by a group of men from around Greenville. The time I got a ride in it, it sure is an antique in every respect. The inside looks like a landfill, a combination of pails of oil, piles of rags, boxes of used cyls, and Mcdonalds wrappers and coffee cups. Sure is unique though, and was purpose built to be a crowd pleaser at Greenville Seaplane fly in.

Jim

Holy cow Scouter sounds like my second X wife A lot more shiny on the outside then the inside

Thanks for quantifying the ex-wife analogy...

Knew u would be watching

DonC wrote:Holy cow Scouter sounds like my second X wife A lot more shiny on the outside then the inside

WTF Don??? Was that one of your leftovers that suckered me in for ex-2???

Gump

I think I saw one of the floats in folsoms hangar apart. It would be cool to see it on floats.


Tom

The Ole Boy....

....(he was mid forties back then): Ex Air Force,(was Pres. Eisenhower's pilot on the orginal Helicoptor 1) Ex Navy, Ex Coast Guard, at that time an Army Natl. Guard Huey pilot, one of the first men typed in a Lear, former G-1 captain for International Paper and great all around pilot, that just couldn't stand prosperity.... taught me everthing one could know about flying Twin Beeches.....once flew a C-47 on floats while in the U.S. Navy.

Gus had a picture of himself and the big ole float plane. Never before or until today did I know that any other DC-3 on floats existed. Just another great advantage of being on BCP.

Thanks Guys. You make it fun.

Bob