26april2016 pics/video: last ever flight Boeing 247 airliner

ImageImageForum for all "old aircraft" related news, background, discussions and research.

Forum rules
ImageImageForum for all news, background, discussions and research on vintage aircraft, warbirds and wrecks & relics (stored, preserved, dumped etc). Actual logs -especially those of active airfields- are preferred to be posted in the appropriate Spotters forums.
Post Reply
User avatar
Stratofreighter
Scramble Master
Scramble Master
Posts: 22192
Joined: 25 Jan 2006, 08:02
Location: Netherlands

26april2016 pics/video: last ever flight Boeing 247 airliner

Post by Stratofreighter »

Lotsa photos at
http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/m ... c+Heavy%29
and
http://airwaysnews.com/blog/2016/04/27/ ... 7d-flight/
Museum of Flight Completes Final Boeing 247D Flight

83 years after a successful delivery in 1933 the world’s oldest Boeing 247D returned back to Boeing Field, and landed for the final time at the Museum of Flight.

To date, only four of these aircraft are still in existence. All of them belong to museum collections in the UK, Canada and the United States. The aircraft belonging to the Museum of Flight has been part of its collection since 1966, and it was the last one ever to soar the skies.

The aircraft made the 15-minute hop down from Paine Field in Everett to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle on a nice sunny afternoon under the command of Mike Carriker and copilot Chad Lundy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOh_t_gs3A
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
Post Reply

Return to “Vintage, warbirds and wrecks & relics”