Douglas Dakota parts list and spare parts

Just to add a public thanks to Mark for sending those really useful scans, and an apology for calling him Karl :confused:

Jason, please could you let me know the sellers details?

Cheers,
TEC

Hello,

There was a heavy C47/Dakota manual for sale at the Newark aero jumble last October, still have the sellers card if your interested.

jason

Hi Karl, thank you for highlighting those links. I had not been able to locate those or anything similar. I have sent you a PM in response to your extremely kind offer. I imagine those manuals are pretty rare.

Cheers,
TEC

Thats fine, (although I’m no relation to Karl smiles)

The PDF’s on their way, I havent dismantled the book to scan them so you will probably want to print the pages off as every second page PDF is upside down.

I think they probably are rare (I paid $49 for this one back 30 years ago), although to be fair over 10,000 of the C-47 one were probably published for Uncle Sam, most probably got tossed rather than being kept with the airframes? although interestingly the inside page of my C-47 Manual has KA800 written in pencil along with CZF/M. which I wonder may be an RAF Serial and perhaps post war callsign?

We have ex-RAF aircraft from the SEAC region with FZ’, KG’, DT’ and KN’ serial prefixes, but I have no idea if KA800 is a valid RAF serial let alone one allocated to a C-47 that made it to Australia.

I hope the email information is of use?, attached is a photo of the embossed cover and the front page with the penned ownership notes of Harold R Dymond who I assume was a LAME with ANA, AA, DAP and TAA over his time.

Regards

Mark Pilkington

Hi Mark, thank you for highlighting those links. I had not been able to locate those or anything similar. I have sent you a PM in response to your extremely kind offer. I imagine those manuals are pretty rare.

Tony, thank you for your message. Will follow that up.

Cheers,
TEC

And the Swedes Elliott, their Spit 19 parts manual has pictures where as the Brit one didn’t.

Tail end check pm’s

Now that’s a proper parts manual. The americans really knew how to put these together.

Good afternoon,

Can anyone please confirm if there is such a thing as a Dakota parts list or illustrated manual? I am looking for information on the throttle box please.

Also, is there anyone in the UK who has a stock of NoS levers etc for one? Or even a control yoke or instrument panel?

Thanks again,
TEC

I was very fortunate to walk into a second hand shop at lunchtime (near my then work) in Footscray a suburb of Melbourne in the 1980s, and buy 3 original Douglas Manuals which all belonged to a Harold R Dymond, who listed he had worked with ANA, Ansetts, DAP and then TAA.

These included
a Douglas DC-4 December 1945 Maintenance Manual
a Douglas C-47 October 1944 Maintenance Manual
both with embossed cover with Douglas globe logos, and both fully illustrated with both diagrams and photos.

Along with a US Army Air Corps DC-3 Manual

The inside covers remind me I paid @ $50 each at the time, and in those days $150 made a big dint in my trainee pay packet but they are brilliant items and I don’t think I could buy them for that price now, even if I could find them for sale somewhere.

Of course you can pick up various manuals on ebay and elsewhere in CD form.

The following being just some google finds for the Maintenance Manuals, while separately there are parts manuals, flight/pilot manuals, and erection manuals.

http://www.sicuropublishing.com/servlet/the-4534/Douglas-C-dsh-47-R4D-Aircraft/Detail

http://www.avialogs.com/en/aircraft/usa/douglas/dc3c-47/to-1c-47-2-maintenance-instructions-c-47-and-c-117-aircraft.html

http://www.avialogs.com/list/item/4133-maintenance-manual-douglas-dc-3-part-2-6

My 800 page manual shows a general view of the Thottle quadrant, a parts list identifying p/n for each lever, and 2 page of descriptive notes on the throttle quadrant itself and I will take it to work and scan those couple of pages and email it to you if you PM me your email addy.

Regards

Mark Pilkington

Or even further afield (US)? I also need placards.

Cheers,
TEC