Great 9 minutes of colored vintage film about the EDO floats of the C-47 and some flight testing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8ccwoVZTc
Enjoy!
Martin
By: wieesso - 10th October 2011 at 23:41
N130Q
Registration valid until 30 Sep 2013
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=130Q
Last pictures of N130Q already 7 years old!
Has anyone pictures newer than 2004?
and another nice clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ6zTZuq5zw&feature=related
By: J Boyle - 10th October 2011 at 16:55
I saw the civil float equipped C-47 when it was flying.
Huge beast, I wonder what kind or runway or crosswind manners it had?
It was for sale for years and probably still is.
Looks like a nice plane for Kermit.
By: scott.bouch - 10th October 2011 at 15:40
Super little video! I want a floating C-47! What a great way to travel on your holidays!
By: RMAllnutt - 10th October 2011 at 15:25
Fascinating video… thanks so much for posting the link!
Adlertag, there is a C-47 on EDO floats in the USA. I know it attended Oshkosh within the last 20 years, although I recently heard it has not flown for a while now, so don’t know what its current status is. Wish I could have seen it in person!
Cheers,
Richard
Taken at Polk City, Florida in 2004 according to the Airliners.net tag.
By: AdlerTag - 10th October 2011 at 15:01
A very interesting clip, thanks for sharing. I must admit I never realised the ‘Duckota’ was amphibious, I always thought it was a pure floatplane. You have to wonder why on earth the ‘Duckota’ concept wasn’t more popular, with so many C-47’s surplus at the end of the war you have to wonder why more weren’t converted to fly services in the Amazon basin or routes through the South Pacific etc.
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