The photo shows N54607 "Euroworld 20Jun69" (data from slide).
Photo: Ruud Leeuw collection, purchased from Per Schmidt.

David Ellis sent me this in Oct.2006; he wrote:
"I just got back from Bratislava/Vienna - thought you might like to add this lovely Viking (G-AGRW) to your off-airport page. She is at a McDonalds in Schwechat, a couple of miles west of Vienna Airport wearing spurious Austrian colours.
I wonder how many McDonalds aircraft there are?"
David (© photo, left)

Franc van Vliet sent me another photo of G-AGRW, taken 18Jun04 (photo right, © Franc van Vliet)

Peter Bakema found in May 2006 this Ilyushin IL-18 DDR-STD (c/n 180002302) for sale, at the Bundesstraße 245a, between Helmsted en Harbke, near the village Harbke (which is close to the former East/West German border).
Peter writes "the aircraft was converted to a bar/restaurant, but the persons who used to run the restaurant ran out of money. The owner now lives, with his wife, near the IL-18, to prevent vandalism. Due to his failing health he is now offering the Ilyushin for sale.
Interested buyers can call +49 (0)3 9406 150113"

Peter, thanks for the use of these photos.

Jeroen forwarded me these emails by Dave: "I like your photo of the Moto-Auto Ilyushin-18 at Bakov. It sits next to the highway linking Prague and Liberec, right? Near a town called Mlada Boleslav. However you wrote that it's been there since October 1996. I'm pretty sure it's been there a lot longer than that. I distinctly remember passing it on my travels to and from Prague (I'm from Liberec) even before the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It has had a new c/s in the 90's but as you can see, the elements have faded it over the years."
And: "OK-WAJ was in service from 1967-1984, flew 23.578 hours and was used predominantly on CSA's routes to Havana. It was parked at its final resting spot at Bakov on 17Sep86. There is a story about this plane. Some Czech busdrivers pulled prank on about 300 Cuban workers at about 2 am, one freezing morning. They were told that Cuba is was under attack and that President Castro was calling them to arms, this aircraft was awaiting them at a nearby airport to take them back to Havana... Half asleep they boarded the busses and were dropped off at Bakov next to WAJ and were told to wait for the flight crew. After a while they realised the landing gear was set in concrete and that the IL-18 wasn't going anywhere in a hurry! So they started to trash what they could. Anticipating this move, the busdrivers had called the police to say that a bunch of drunk out of control Cubans are rampaging near the aircraft..."

Douglas C-117D 17191 (cn 43379) on an off-airport location at Hnjotur, Iceland. Photographed 10Aug06 by David Alfred Eliasson.
On Airliners.net he writes: "This ex-Keflavik based C-117D (and a Keflavik NAS gate-guard) is preserved in a sorry state at Egill Ólafsson Folk Museum. All other parts (wings, engines, props, tail) are also there, but separate."

Click the photo for a link to a larger image on Airliners.net

Niels Helmø Larsen wrote me:
"You were looking for info on DC-3 Yahoo Group about the ”Norrtalje” DC-3 in Sweden. In next issue of DC-3 NYT (to be published 1st December) I will cover the Norrtalje DC-3.
The nose section of the Swedish DC-3 was corroded, and needed a new nose. MFI DC-3 N2401 in Florida was just about to be broken up due to damage from two Hurricanes.
The Swedish brought the nose section (and some spare parts) and after transportation to Sweden it was put on the Norrtalje DC-3.
The DC-3 is now in Norrtalje again (was actually used as a Café from 1949 to 1975) painted in SAS colours."

This shows the location of Norrtälje,Sweden.

Michael Östergren wrote me in Oct.2006:
"The adress on the site is where you find the a/c. The adress is Hotell Roslagen in Norrtälje.

Michael replied to this:
"We took the nose section from the Missonary flight a/c since it was complete with instruments, radios and everything, not due to corrosion. Our aircraft in Sweden had an empty cockpit."

I know parts of N2401 (former K&K from Bridgewater,VA and sold to Missionary Flight of West Palm Beach,FL in 1996, registration cancelled -as damaged by storm- in 2005) were used, which was used as parts supply by Missionary Flight; it had the same engines as N400MF (Wright R-1820 engines instead of the more common P&W R-1830 Twin Wasps) but N400MF is still very much around so I think it unlikely parts of N400MF were used. -Webmaster.

N400MF was reported to be flying in Haiti during Oct.2006, by Alexandre Avrane

Steve Mitchell added:
"According to the article in Flypast this was C-47A 42-24049 which served in Europe after delivery to the USAAF in October 1943. In the summer of 1947 it was sold to Scandinavian Aero AB as SE-AYM and flown to their base at Norrtalje. It was only ever used for spares. When the airlines ceased ops the hulk was used as a cafe at Norrtalje harbour, until it closed in 1976. It then went to a fire fighting school at Rosersberg."

In Dec.2007 I received an update from Rolf Larsson on the Norrtälje DC-3: "Noticed that you have some info regarding DC-3 c/n 9911 "224049" which is now preserved outside Hotel Roslagen in Norrtälje , a town north of Stockholm. Many years ago this DC-3 was used as a café in Norrtälje before being used at Rosersberg in a training school for accidents/fires etc., after that it was moved to the aviation museum at Stockholm-Arlanda airport but never on exhibition, just lying outside, dismantled. A few years ago it was taken to Norrtälje and restored and is now, in very good shape, on exhibition outside the hotel. I am enclosing two pictures which may be of interest, one was taken on 18 July 1976 when the DC-3 was still in use as a café and picture number two, below, depicts how it looks today." Rolf Larsson

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