Type: DC-3

Model Year: 1944

Construction Number: 13798

Owner/Operator: Casey Roszell

Based: Bessemer Airport (EKY)
Bessemer, Alabama

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This aircraft was built for the USAAF as C-47A c/n 43-47982, and delivered on July 03rd 1944.  It saw service with the 12th Air Force in Italy. It went back to the USA in 1945, but had grown a liking to Europe apparently as it went to Air France in May 1947 as F-BAXH. It was registered to Air Liban on June 25th 1951 as OD-ABK, but was again registered to Air France only 5 months later. it was registered to Rousseau Aviation in May 1969.

At one time it was registered as 9Q-CSM (Zaire) but this was not taken up and an actual move to Zaire was probably never made. It was at Dinard, France in 1970/1971. In 1983 we see for the first time N62CC entering the books, but a sale to Cook & Co again did not materialize. But in February 1988 it was registered to Virgil Air Corp., Bethel, CT as N62CC. It was bought by Vandermeer Co. Inc. of Ridgewood, NJ on February 11th 1993. This did not last long, as in July of that year it was registered to Deutsche Kraft Inc., Lehighton, PA. On Nov. 21st 1994 it was registered to CATALINA AIR INC. of Alcoa,TN. In august 2004 it was sold to Air Classics of Sheffield, MA, and in 2010 it was sold to its current owners and is based at Bessemer, AL.

Total time on this aircraft is less than 16,000 hours.