ePilot22 said:I would love to fly a DC-3! AM21!
Tom
then just apply to Piedmont and fly the Dash in the NE. Replace EWR with LGA and the DC3 with a Dash8. Base yourself in LGA or SYR and you can pretty much fly the same stuff. Colgan and Commutair will also give you the same routes.
When I lived in SYR from the the top foor of my apartment building you could pretty much see the "railroad instrument approach" to the original syracuse airport he talks about. Its also the same airport that he sucks the gear up too early and causes Ross to milk the DC2 into the air.
I say the "original syracuse" airport because the one thats there today is not the one he flew into. The SYR airport Gann flew into located south of the thruway (90) and west of 81, just south of the fairgrounds in the town of Amboy. One of the hangars is still there which is located off a road the happens to be called Airport road.
I was driving along that road one day back when I lived there and as I came around a corrner on the road the hangar in the woods cought my eye. The area is fenced off and used as a dirt landfill. The hangar houses trucks and equipment. The local library had info about the airport which included that Lindy and Airhart (sp?) had both landed there at some point.
AA and Robinson (the forerunner to Mohawk, now part of U) were the only airlines that served the airport. Actualy from what I'm able to tell Robinson wasn't a sked airline at that point (pre WW2) and was just charter and a flight school. I believe Robinson had something to do with Ithica also.
The SYR airport we know today (north of the city) was built during WW2 as a B-17 training base. Some of the orginal base can be seen on the FBO side (south) and north where the control tower and employee lot is located. After WW2 the govt gave the land to the city who decided that it would make a better airport for commercial use than the one Gann had used.
try a google search for : abandoned and little known airfields this guys site has all the info.