What a/c is this?

A North American 0-47A N4725V, was used in the final sequences of the 1965 film ‘Flight of the Pheonix’ as a stand in for the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 which had crashed during filming killing Paul Mantz.

Richard

Planes of Fame had two O-47A’s. The flyer, 38-284, was lost in a post-gear-up landing fire in November, 1982, and I suspect that this was the last flight of an O-47. They have a second O-47, 38-295, recovered from a North Carolina swamp in good condition in 1978, which they have been working on-and-off-again to fly which will incorporate some of the remains of -284. Hopefully it will fly again some day. Only four complete O-47’s are known to survive… two A’s and two B’s.

Cheers,
Richard

Cor, a greenhouse with a cellar!

Richard

There are/were two with PoF at Chino – check out this old thread with some photos

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=74978

Anyone know if it is still airworthy or when one last flew?

Kenneth nailed it, O-47. I was fascinated by this type when I saw a line-drawing in a book as a kid as it was completely ignored in most books about wartime aircraft.

239 built; 1 prototype, 164 As and 74 Bs with 95 hp more out of their R-1820.

No droppable ordnance, just a fixed .303 Browning in the wing and one in the rear greenhouse. Three crew.

Limited service in East during early weeks of the Pacific campaign but most were employed on photo-mapping, training and liaison in CONUS. Plus anti-submarine patrols off California and in Canal Zone.

Credit as ever to the marvellous Combat Aircraft of World War Two edited by Elke Weale.

Not the prettiest,makes you wonder how it flew.:)

Thank you too – hadn’t seen one before.

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thanks for that!

As Kenneth says, it was a USAAC Observation aircraft hence the swollen belly look, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_O-47

North American O-47

Boomerang with modified canopy or a photoshopped composite perhaps??