RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 1193. Douglas DC-3B-202 (N17312 c/n 1922) North Central Airlines
Photographed at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, by Ron Dupas

Douglas DC-3B-202

03/31/2011. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This aircraft was delivered to the US airline Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) on April 16, 1937, registered NC17312 with fleet number 350. With WW II raging, this aircraft was drafted (conscripted) by the USAAF on June 1, 1942 as a C-84 with s/n 42-57157, and assigned to the Air Transport Command (ATC). Declared surplus, it was returned to TWA on December 3, 1943 registered NC17312. Transcontinental & Western Air was renamed Trans World Airlines on May 17, 1950.

It was sold to Wisconsin Central Airlines of Madison, Wisconsin on October 27, 1950; the airline was renamed North Central Airlines on March 1, 1951 and moved headquarters to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was sold to R. Rubens of Joliet, Illinois in December 1966 who converted it to an executive version named 'Land-O-Lakes'.

Subsequently it was sold to J&J Facundo of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico in 1967; the Union National Bank of Chicago in May 1969; and the cargo charter airline Central Cargo of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1969. By October 1976, it was derelict at San Juan. The final owner was General Airways of Portland, Oregon, USA, who bought it January 14, 1977. By 1980, it had been scrapped."

Created January 24, 2002