1)
The following two pictures of Prairie Aviation Museum's "Old Gooney" -- as many who flew her called her-- were taken at the annual Charlie Wells Memorial Scholarship Breakfast at FIrst Class Air, Capital Airport, Springfield, Illinois (SPI)
Sunday, April 25, 2004.
2)Viewed against the grey sky, the old bird seems to be a part of her natural element, even sitting on the ground.
3) C-53 a/k/a DC-3
Though it looks like a DC-3
Prairie Aviation Museum's beautiful bird
is a civil C-53 in Ozark Airlines livery.
4) Ookay, we'll call it DC-3
if you insist, but that's better than
starting over again, especially since
Ozark, who paid for the paint is no
longer paying for anything.
5) DC-3
I was on a wheeled airline stair ramp
left over from Americal Airlines' 440 days
when I took this picture. Thanks to
Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington, IL
for their assistance and help with
these pictures, all taken during
a 1997 visit to SPI.
6) DC-3
Lots of credit goes to PAM & Ozark
for their choice of color schemes:
after they started white topping the fuselage
but before addint the swallow theme.