Type: C-47

Model Year: 1941

Construction Number: 18401

Owner/Operator: Ozark Airlines Museum, Inc.

Based: St. Charles County (SET)
St. Charles, MO

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I enlisted in the Army Air Corp when I was 17 and was in the class of 45B. After the war I tried to keep flying but there were so many pilots from the war with much more experience than me getting a flying job was not going to happen. After a year of sitting on the ground, I used my GI bill to get my Commercial, Instrument, Flight Instructors and ground school ratings. I taught flying from 1951 both flight and ground school until Ozark Airlines hired me as a copilot March 7, 1955. That was the first time I had piloted a DC-3. In 1956 I got my ATR and logged 9,960 hours until OZA acquired the FH27, FH227, Martin 404 and the DC-9.

I retired from Ozark in 1985 but missed flying so much that my wife Judy and I bought our own C-47. It was in excellent condition, low in both engine and airframe time, even though it was made in November 18, 1941. We were able to put her in the air as a DC-3/C-47 N-150-D.  Since then we have been taking her to air shows to show what she looked like when she went to war in 1942.  She is still in the same condition as she was, never been anything but a C-47. "Judy" has a big hit every place we have shown her.