Dirk Septer's showcase on vintage prop planes
in the Caribbean.


Photos © Dirk Septer

Dirk Septer shares my interest in vintage aircraft and aviation history. His focus includes the large multi propellor aircraft as well as the undefeatable bushplanes.
After an incidental contribution, he sent me a series of photos from a visit to the exotic Caribbean , so I got to work to include it on a specific page, a Personal Showcase..!

 

N155JR 01Feb08

Convair CV440 N155JR (c/n 433) languishes at the international airport of St.Thomas.
Jet One Express / Fresh Air bought N155JR from Four Star Cargo on 13Dec05 but it isn't of much use without engines & propellors...

St.Thomas' Cyril E. King IAP on Wikipedia

N912AL 02Feb08
Convair CV440 N912AL (c/n 353)
Dodita Air Cargo.
San Juan int'l airport 02Feb08.
N99380
Convair T-29B N99380 Air Tahoma
Beef Island Airport on Tortola
(British West Indies)

N132FS
Douglas C-47A N132FS c/n 14333/25778 was spotted by Dirk at St.Thomas, stored (01Feb08).

N138FS N138FS (c/n 9967) of Four Star Cargo can be easily identified by the Snoopy character, painted on the nose.
Seen here at San Juan-SJU on 02Feb08.

Four Star Air Cargo on Airliners.net

Unidentified
According to Dirk this is N131FS, but the tailnumber cannot be seen and it lacks distinctive markings.
N87T
N87T is a former Tolair Services DC-3C, c/n 6148. Been registered to MDB Corp since 10Sep99.
It is seen parked here with Four Star Cargo at San Juan IAP on 02Feb08.

Dirk wrote: "... also photographed some Twin Beeches. 'Four Star' has apparentlty four of them, but they are currently grounded. I had a hard time getting pics of them without getting into trouble..."
N728T
N728T is a Beech E18S, c/n BA-130. It was registered to MDB Corp on 08Feb99.
Dirk took a clearer shot of N728T on a previous visit.
The above photo was taken at San Juan's Luis Muñoz Marín IAP (see Wikipedia) on 02Feb08, while below photo of N749T was taken at St. Thomas the day before.
N749T at St.Thomas

This Beech E18S (BA-55) was built in 1955 and it seems it has reached the end of the road here. It suffered on landing at Virgin Gorda,VG 13Apr05 a collapsed gear, but at least that seems rectified... The FAA website shows it registered to MDB Corp (listed adress as PO Box 37840, Carolina,PR) as recent as 31Jul2000, but indicates there has been no interest to keep this registration current.

 


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