Many years back I hired a book from library (can’t remember name of book or author!) that was full of pictures of derelict aircraft around the world. One picure I remember in particular was of a Dominicana Carvair that had been converted into a cafe/restaurant. Anyone able to shed light on this and whether it still exists? if so, where?
Cheers
Jamie
By: RPSmith - 22nd September 2006 at 00:07
No not yet. Was hoping to go next month or so, but due to the missus wanting to get married ( big day saturday 23rd) it doesn’t look like I will get there until about january Im afraid!
Who’s she wanting to getting married to?? :diablo: :diablo:
Roger Smith.
By: Newforest - 21st September 2006 at 20:35
No not yet. Was hoping to go next month or so, but due to the missus wanting to get married ( big day saturday 23rd) it doesn’t look like I will get there until about january Im afraid!
Congratulations for the 23rd! Suggestion, have the honeymoon immediately afterwards in, I don’t know……….. Dom.Rep! 🙂
By: jaybeebee - 14th September 2006 at 10:05
No not yet. Was hoping to go next month or so, but due to the missus wanting to get married ( big day saturday 23rd) it doesn’t look like I will get there until about january Im afraid!
By: Jamie-Southend - 13th September 2006 at 21:26
Over to you Jaybeebee …… did you get back there yet?
By: kartman - 13th September 2006 at 20:47
Any news yet on the Carvair piano bar?……..Martin
By: jaybeebee - 16th May 2006 at 18:35
Thats the one! I was in Puerta Plata on holiday for 2 weeks. Going back to Dominican hopefully in September. I will have to have a shuftie over that side of the island I think!
By: Chapin01 - 16th May 2006 at 01:55
JS:
The approximate date is mid-January 1984 (do not recall the exact date).
As for the second part of your question, I could not say, because I have not been back to the DR ever since.
Saludos,
Tulio
By: pogno - 15th May 2006 at 23:47
Stephen Piercey’s book SKY TRUCK shows a Dominicana Carvair being dismantled in 1978, then relocated to Santo Domingo where parts of the aircraft,as well as some buses, were to become a cafateria. Text says it had not opened by 1983. Registration not stated.
By: Jamie-Southend - 15th May 2006 at 22:14
Thats got to be it – Jamie over to you.
Tulio when was it taken & is it still there?
Jamie (2) Southend
By: Chapin01 - 15th May 2006 at 22:09
This is, I am sure, one of the airplanes that you guys mentioned.
Saludos,
Tulio
By: Jamie-Southend - 15th May 2006 at 20:55
I think if i remember right there were 2 Dominicana Carvairs, HI-172 and i think HI-168.
168 crashed at Miami in 1969, with 4 fatalities and was distroyed i think, but 172 was withdrawn from use in stored in Santo Domingo in 1978.
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