Floatplane DC-3 flies again

Douglas DC-3 floatplane N130Q made its first water landing for 20 years at Moosehead Lake, north-western Maine on 14 September, with Tunison Foundation pilots Eric Zipkin and Garrett Fleishman in the left and right-hand seats respectively. Work to convert the aeroplane — originally built as C-53D 42-68834 at Santa Monica during 1943 — to floatplane configuration began in the mid-1980s with Folsom’s Air Service in Greenville, Maine, the machine making its first flight during September 1990. For the conversion, Folsom’s