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The accident was the 2nd worst involving the DC-3 at the time, and is the 3rd worst as of 2010. [54] May 4, 1971: Douglas C-47 TAM-22 None Crashed shortly after take-off from El Alto Airport, La Paz on a cargo flight to El Jovi Airport. [55] June 3, 1971: Douglas DC-3 PH-MOA None Crashed on landing at Southend Airport.
DC-3 conversion with a stretched fuselage, strengthened structure, modern avionics, and powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6A-67R turboprops. Conroy Turbo Three One DC-3 converted by Conroy Aircraft with two Rolls-Royce Dart Mk. 510 turboprop engines. Conroy Super-Turbo-Three Same as the Turbo Three but converted from a Super DC-3. One ...
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A DC-3 with Wright Cyclone engines, built in 1938 for Australian National Airways The List of original Douglas DC-3 operators lists only the original customers who purchased new aircraft. With the availability of large numbers of surplus military C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas after the Second World War, nearly every airline and military force in ...
The DC-7 was followed by the DC-7B with slightly more power and optional fuel tanks over the wing in the rear of the engine nacelles (selected by Pan Am and South African Airways), each carrying 220 US gallons (183 imp gal; 833 L). South African Airways used this variant to fly Johannesburg to London with one stop.
Upset by what he felt was a project that seemed to guarantee failure, he started work on his own design, and presented it as the DC-3. Unlike the other entries, DC-3 was much more conventional in layout, with an almost cylindrical fuselage and low-mounted slightly swept wings. The design looked more like a cargo aircraft than a spacecraft.
The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 registered as HI-177 (with serial number 47500 and line number 546), was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas the 1969. The aircraft was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 turbofan engines. [1] It had been in service with Dominicana for less than a month (with only 354 flying hours) when it crashed. [2] [3]
The Constancia mine is a large copper mine in the south of Peru in Cuzco Region. Constancia is one of the largest copper reserves in the world, having estimated reserves of 440 million tonnes of ore grading 0.34% copper, 0.01% molybdenum, 0.7 million oz of gold and 50.2 million oz of silver.