Alfonso Flores wrote (apr.2006): "This airplane was impounded in early 1980s near San Luis Potosi, it transported contraband. Then it was donated to Tangamanga Park. Unfortunately I can´t identify it because no c/n reference is available and the cockpit area its closed; possibly the plate may survived remain there.".
It has been suggested this is (but not confirmed) msn 2220.

P4-YSA (c/n 2131) can be found on the island of Curacao, on the other side of the island from where the airport is, at Super Club Breezes, restaurant/bar (road: Koraalspechtweg) and it may look different now (with an exotic coat of paint) or it may not...
Updates welcome.

P4-YSA on Airliners.net

Arjen Burgart sent me a photo taken in June 2010, which shows a bit of paint and titles added. See Photos by Friends and Guests (25).

Stef Slavujevic sent me this image in july 2011 (no date to the photo):

Stef wrote: "the restaurant has been closed a long time and the property is for sale".

Dirk Septer photographed this NAMC YS-11 PJ-WIK (c/n 2025) early 2007.
It is part of a restaurant at St.Maarten (Dutch Antilles); my records showed the name as Restaurant Air Lekkerbek (a fried fish, battered & fried cod, I think). Dirk enjoyed the 'special': bami goreng, his (and many others', I am sure!) favourite Indonesian food.
Dirk Septer has more photos by him, on this website.

Aad van der Voet supplied me with more historical details of this grounded bird:
"This YS-11 carried tailnumber RP-C1420 from 1977 to 1985, but was reregistered N107MP and later again to PJ-WIK. With that last identification it arrived at St.Maarten (for Winair - Windward Island Airways)."
I also found that c/n 2025 was originally delivered to All Nippon Airways, as JA8661 on 29Jul66, before it went to Philippine Airlines as RP-C1420 in 1977. [Turbo Prop Airliner Production List, TAHS 2003]

Matthew Anderson sent me a 2009 photo, HERE...

This photo was published on www.flickr.com, taken on 25Sep06 and offers the following information:
DC-3 / C-47 Romero Britto
Pátio da AESO
Peixinhos, Olinda, Pernambuco, Brasil

A.Avrane of ATDB (online database) offered the following info:
"ATDB shows this as PT-BFU, an original DC-3 (not C-47). Was painted as such in mid-2001."

Vito Alexandre Cedrini took it from here: "This is a true DC-3, to be exact a DC-3-277C (c/n 2248), note the right hand door!
Originally operated by American Airlines as NC15592, it was used by several operators in Brazil (among them Willys Overland and Ford do Brasil / Ford Motor Company) as an Executive DC-3; last registration was PT-BFU.
It was the only Brazilian registered DC-3 which had a semi-enclosed undercarriage.
Would be better if it could be preserved inside a Museum, as out in the open who knows how long it will survive..."

Charlie Pyles shed a different light on the above DC-3 once being NC15592:
"Although possible, I doubt NC15592 on your web site is the original. Photos were donated to our museum by Cyril Ketterer after he died."



Note the passengerdoor on this side, the righthand side.

Charlie Pyles
Cincinnati Aviation Heritage Society & Museum
www.cahslunken.org

Seems it was rebuild after all (at time of accident there wasn't yet a susplus of DC-3 airliners); this email exchange was done on Air-Britain's ABIX forum:

Hello Ruud,
Googling NC 15592 I found this on

http://www.archive.org/stream/monthlycatalogof471941unit2/monthlycatalogof471941\
unit2_djvu.txt
August 1941 1121

Aircraft accidents. Report of Civil Aeronautics Board of investigation of acci-
dent involving civil aircraft of United States NC 15592, which occurred near
Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 10, 1941; docket no. SA-34, adopted July 16, 1941.
[1941.] [1] +27+ [3] p. 1 pi. 4° [Processed.] t C 31.213:049

Also according to the 1984 A-B DC-3 bible this aircraft was with American until
1949!

with best regards,
Pétur P. Johnson

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According to the CAB accident report, the wreck was indeed moved to American's
hangar. It also says "At the termination of the hearing on March 20, 1941, the
aircraft was released to American".

I can email the full report to you if you want it.

Regards,

Aad van der Voet (AB #19394)
http://www.oldwings.nl

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Thank you for completing the circle. Do not need the accident report; and, as Petur noted previously c/n 2248 served with American for a further eight years.
John M. Davis

Vito Cedrini sent some images of PT-BFU from his archives, see Photos by Friends & Guests (25)

Klaus wrote me the following in March 2011:
" Here is a photo I took in July 2007, driving the BR101 highway, just around Porto Bello in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Unfortunately the place was closed, so I have no more information to pass on, neither do I know for sure type of aircraft or which historic airline now serves pizza…
Their home site www.portobellopizzeria.com certainly disregards the special premises."
Klaus Hoppe
Jureré, Brasil

I found the following information, and here is more on Airliners.net
NAMC YS-11 PP-CTI c/n 2080. In use as restaurant 'Pizzaria Aviao'. Ex/ Cruzeiro aircraft.