Type: DC-3

Model Year: 1945

Construction Number:

Owner/Operator: Steve Hiller
Hiller Aviation Museum

Based: Hayward Airport (HWD)
Hayward, California

Captains: Mike Helow

Co-Pilots:

Crew Chief:

Passengers:
 

• 1945 - US Army Corps. #44-77281 as a C-47B
• 1948 - Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, TX.
• 1967 - William H. Wheeler of Tyler, TX
• 1979 - Bill Bob Barnett, Billy Bob’s Texas Night Club, Fort Worth, TX
• 1983 - AFS Leasing for a charter service “Sentimental Journeys,” Bluefield, WV
• 1988 - Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Company San Leandro, CA
• 1999 - Bud Field Aviation, Hayward, CA
• 2004 – Steve Hiller, Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, CA

97H is the sister ship to Jim Gabbert’s N41HQ when the Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Company owned them and gave tours around the San Francisco Bay Area. Many people have been married on these two aircraft over the Golden Gate Bridge.