DC-3 OH-LCH Landing And Arrival - Turku 2023

DOUGLAS DC-3 OH-LCH "HOTELLI" at Turku Airshow 2023.

Plane: DC-3A-453 C/N 6346
Pilot: Airveteran

Turku Airshow 2023
(C) Jukka O. Kauppinen 2023
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DOUGLAS DC-3 OH-LCH ”HOTELLI”

Our plane was built by Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica, California and completed on Christmas Eve 1942 as
DC-3A-453 C/N 6346. Intended for Pan American Grace Airways as NC34953, she was promptly taken to military service on Dec 27 1942 and became C-53C-DO s/n 43-2033.

She served in the US Air Transport Command, North Atlantic Wing and was probably based at Presque Isle, Maine until transferred in November 1943 to the European Wing, where she is believed to have served in personnel transport duties. In October 1944 she was transferred to the 8thAAF until the end of war in Europe.

From storage in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, she was bought by the State of Finland and registered on Jun 19 1948 as OH-LCH and made her first commercial flight for Aero Oy on Jul 21 1948. She logged a total of 22137 hours until dismantled for spare parts on Dec 15 1960, but was rebuilt as a freighter with a large cargo door and re-registered as OH-LCH on Jun 25 1963 for Finnair Oy (ex-Aero Oy). On Apr 1 1967 she made Finnair’s last scheduled DC-3 passenger flight.

Having logged 28826 hours she was sold to the Finnish Air Force on Mar 5 70 and received call sign DO-11. The Air Force retired DC-3s in 1985 and DO-11 was sold to Airveteran Oy on Jan 15 1986 to become OH-LCH once again. She is flown regularly during summer season.

Turku Airshow 2023

The annual main airshow is the biggest aviation event each year in Finland. Airshow is organized every year in different city / airport to cover the whole country. The main airshow returns now to Turku after four years. Previous shows were at Turku 2019 and 2015. Finland’s main annual airshow is also the main annual airshow for Finnish Air Force, Army Aviation and Border Guard. Therefore the airshow is organized with close co-operation with them.
The previous Turku Airshow was organized in 2019, Swedish Gripen, USAF C-17A, Finnish F/A-18 Hornet and CRJ900NG to name few participants.

Modernien suihkuhävittäjien jyrinää ja klassista taitolentoa koko perheen tapahtumassa Turku Air Show’ssa 17.-18.6.2023. Tutustu harrasteilmailuun ja tapaa lentäjiä, mekaanikkoja sekä muita ilmailufiilistelijöitä. Lentävien esitysten lisäksi myös laaja maanäyttely Turun lentokentän asematasolla, jossa yleisöllä mahdollisuus tavata lentäjiä, mekaanikkoja ja ilmailun muita harrastajia. Tervetuloa mukaan Turun Lentonäytökseen 2023!
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