Radial Engine Round Up – Civilian Multi Engined Aircraft

DC-6, Universal, N661TA, PHL Cargo City, Nov 1990

Photography by Don Linn, Scott Jankowski, Bob Finch and Ken Kula

Lockheed L-1649A-98 Starliner

Originally a U. S. Army C-47, it was converted to a Douglas DC-3C after World War II ended.

Beech G18S with tricycle glanding gear modification 

Convair 340, note the feathered props

Hawaii Pacific Air ATL-98 Carvair

Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair in Fairbanks, Alaska. This aircraft would later crash at Nixon Fork Mine in Alaska.

Martin 4-0-4 in Pacific Air Lines colors

Lockheed Starliner wearing older Lufthansa colors

Martin 4-0-4, N450A, Mid Atlantic Aviation Museum, at NAS Norfolk open house May 1990

Junkers 52 3mg4e trimotor 

Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first pressurized airliner in service

Bushmaster 2000, it was a Ford Trimotor redesigned with 1950’s technology, but only two were built

Curtiss C-46D Commando, in post military civilian colors

This former military Douglas C-54Q was converted into a DC-4 freighter

This was originally a U. S. military C-118A, this DC-6 version flies freight in Alaska

Douglas DC-6B airliner converted into a firebomber by Canada’s Conair. Seen here during an Abbotsford, British Columbia air show

An Australian-built replica of the Fokker F.VIIB-3m Southern Cross record-setting transport

Grumman/Chalk’s G-111 Albatross

Martin 4-0-4 operated by Provincetown-Boston Airlines

Pacific Aeromotive Tradewind C-45H tri-gear conversion of a Beech 18

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon converted into a firebomber

Douglas C-54G, converted into a DC-4 firebomber

Delta Air Lines DC-3, this aircraft was just the second DC-3 operated by Delta Air Lines beginning in 1941

Turner Classics DC-3 served during World War II as a C-53D troop transport – Bob Finch Photo

This C-47A was converted to a DC-3 airliner after World War II ended