Type: DC-3

Model Year: 1943

Construction Number: 9531

Owner/Operator: Flabob Aviation Associates

Based: Flabob Airport (RIR)
Riverside, California

Captains: Jon Goldenbaum

Co-Pilots: Kevin McKenzie, Blake LaMar, Paul Taylor

Crew Chief: Don Newman

Passengers: Flabob Aviation Associates

The Flabob Express is the signature aircraft of Historic Flabob Airport and the Thomas W. Wathen Foundation. It is used in youth education programs at Flabob and considers the students at the Wathen Aviation High School it's multiple crew chiefs.

9351 is truly a historic aircraft. As a WWII veteran C-47 (Dakota) it served in number 24 squadron at RAF Hendon where it flew members of the Royal Family and Parliament. Churchill flew on 24 squadron aircraft many times. No doubt, this aircraft as RAF FD879 was involved. Mid-war it went to India where it was the personal aircraft of British General Auchinleck. After WWII it flew a career in Canada for a variety of corporations as well as with Riverton and Ilford Airways. It was imported to the US in 1993 and registered as N103NA.