DC-3, C-47, Dakota, and all license built or copies

[Radish]

Or a biplane?
Or a rotating wing....

[GTX]

I'm liking these ideas!

Regards,

Greg

[Jeffry Fontaine]

While Wikipedia is not always the best resource for facts and such they do help with compiling pertinent details and information on some subjects that helps.  The sheer number of aircraft designations associated with the Douglas DC-3 is astounding and Wikipedia has attempted to list the majority of those known here is the link for the Wikipedia entry for the Douglas C-47 family of aircraft

[GTX]

How about a Hump Buster C-47 with extra power:



Regards,

Greg

[PR19_Kit]

How about a Hump Buster C-47 with extra power:

I'm only surprised they didn't do it for real! It surely wouldn't have been THAT difficult.

[dragon]

Why only three blades on the props and not 5 or 6 blades with a turboprop engine on each wing?
Perhaps a cannon and machinegun nose arrangement similar to a B-25J attached to a FANTASMA- call it an upgraded FANTASMA call it SAYONA (a particular wraith like spook known all over Latin America) or LA PELONA (the bald lady- as sometimes the angel of death is called in parts of Latin America)

[philp]

Last couple of ideas.

[philp]

Some other fun stuff.

[Daryl J.]

That Super DC-3 makes me wonder a bit about an AC-Super 47.   

[tinlail]

I offer the suggestion of the DC-2 and half http://www.douglasdc3.com/dc2half/dc2half.htm

[jcf]

That Super DC-3 makes me wonder a bit about an AC-Super 47.   

The Super DC-3 was used by the USN/USMC as the R4D-8, with the 1962 US service designation standardization
they became the C-117D.

So perhaps a USMC AC-117D? 

[Daryl J.]

What type of turbines are those above?   That, and when did they go into production?   


TIA,
Daryl J., with a Monogram AC-47 in the stash. 

[apophenia]

What type of turbines are those above?   That, and when did they go into production?

They're all variations on the  PT6A. The PT6A-6 was in full production model by 1963 but only generated 580 shp. These conversions all use 'large' PT6s (Conroy Tri-Turbo Three 3 x PT6A-45As, Basler BT-67 and similar conversions 2 x PT6A-67s) which originated in the mid-'70s.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

What type of turbines are those above?   That, and when did they go into production?   

TIA,
Daryl J., with a Monogram AC-47 in the stash.

Basler Turbo Conversions LLC
255 West 35th Ave.
PO Box 2305
Oshkosh, WI 54903-2305   

Basler BT-67 is a rebuilt to zero time C-47/DC-3 airframe with a fuselage plug added just behind the flight station to increase payload capacity.  Powered by  PT6A-67R Turboprop engines from Pratt & Whitney Canada and 5-blade metal propellers from Hartzell.  There was or is still a company based in Waco, Texas that offers a similar re-manufacturing program for the C-47/DC-3 using Garrett turbines instead of the P&W Canada PT6.

[famvburg]

      My bet is the fuselage plug is for CG purposes since the PT-6s are quite a bit lighter than the R-1830s. It had a side effect of increasing capacity.

What type of turbines are those above?   That, and when did they go into production?   

TIA,
Daryl J., with a Monogram AC-47 in the stash.

Basler Turbo Conversions LLC
255 West 35th Ave.
PO Box 2305
Oshkosh, WI 54903-2305   

Basler BT-67 is a rebuilt to zero time C-47/DC-3 airframe with a fuselage plug added just behind the flight station to increase payload capacity.  Powered by  PT6A-67R Turboprop engines from Pratt & Whitney Canada and 5-blade metal propellers from Hartzell.  There was or is still a company based in Waco, Texas that offers a similar re-manufacturing program for the C-47/DC-3 using Garrett turbines instead of the P&W Canada PT6.