![]() It has a prior history in Indiana before coming to Kansas in October 2018 to retire. The Cessna 404 Titan on this property was given an airworthy date of June 13th, 1979 with room for a passenger and pilot. Its last action date was on May 16th, 2017. ![]() This Cessna 337 Turbo Skymaster has a history in Jacksonville Florida before coming to Rantoul Kansas in October 2014. The pilot and one passenger plane while small in size is a sturdy reliable plane reaching speeds of 140mph. This Turbo Skymaster was deemed “airworthy” on March 5th, 1968. Cessna PlanesĪlso on this lot sits two Cessna model planes, a Titan and a Turbo Skymaster. It came to lay at its final resting place in this field in 2000 as a part-out plane. Decommissioned in 1977 this aircraft resided at the Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tuscon with hundreds of other aircraft until 1992. ![]() It last served the 186th Federal Investigative Services Montana Air National Guard (“Big Sky Country”). The aircraft used to bear the name Montana on the back tip as well as United States Air Force along the side. ![]() 1981, René Buschmannĭelivered to the United States Air Force in 1955, “Big Sky One” is a Convair 240 model aircraft. Convair 240 “Big Sky One” Big Sky One ca. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California to Kansas in 2000 to spend the next twenty plus years sitting in this field. This DC-4 flew for Central Air Services until around the mid-seventies and was then transported from General William J. Only around a thousand were ever built and produced by Douglas Aircraft Co. After maintenance and manufacturing costs became too expensive to keep up with many airlines favored the simpler DC-4 Skymaster which didn’t become commercial until 1946. Developed in 1938 was the DC-4E to carry around forty passengers by day or thirty passengers by night allowing for full sleeping arrangements. decided to produce a four-engine aircraft that was about twice the size of the last model. Douglas DC-4 Douglas DC-4 ca.1983 Gerard HelmerĪfter the great success of their D-3 model aircraft, the Douglas Aircraft Co. This changed the airline industry entirely and by the end of the decade of its release, more than 90 percent of the nation’s passengers were flying on DC-2s and DC-3s. Smith, said the DC-3 was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers, without relying on government subsidies. The Douglas DC-3 was comfortable and reliable, but one of its biggest reasons for success was it made air transportation profitable. American and United Airlines were the first two customers for the DC-3 and shortly after was desired by a few dozen airlines. The first DC-3 was delivered to American Airlines of course and followed shortly later by a twenty-one seater “standard” version. The new and improved Douglas DC-3 allowed for twenty-eight daytime passengers and fourteen overnight. The epitome of luxury its nickname was the Skysleeper. One of those would be the DC-2 reimagined, longer allowing for more passengers to be carried. Smith, President of American Airlines in the 1930’s insisted that designing start on not one but two new planes. The Douglas DC-3 was revolutionary in making airline travel popular, it is internationally known as the greatest airplane of all time. Most of them virtually intact the model planes that call this field their final resting place include: Douglas DC-3 “Skysleeper” DC-3 ca. A landfill of decommissioned planes that no longer fly, an airplane graveyard. Never in my life had I ever come across something like what sits in a field out in Northeastern Kansas.
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