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Turbo dc3 gunship in colombian air force12/15/2023 ![]() By 1989, these engines had accumulated over 5,000 hours of trouble-free operation.īasler feels turboprop power is the most practical way to keep the DC-3 going. He replaced the standard 14-cylinder radial engines with two PT6A-45R turboprop engines that boosted the speed from 165 miles per hour to more than 200 miles per hour. In 1982, Basler spent $2.5 million to build a DC-3 turboprop for Friendship Air, in Fairbanks, Alaska. (The USAir/Piedmont DC-3 was refitted at Basler’s) ![]() Some are Third World Nations, where airports are short dirt strips, but he still gets an occasional call from an airline. Many of his customers are in the freight business. (It is cheap enough to let it sit idle during the day (cargo is usually flown at night). The main attractions Basler and others find in the DC-3 are its dependability and economy. Each time he sells one, he retains the rights to repurchase it, should the owner ever decide to sell the plane. Since 1960, he has purchased more than seventy of these airplanes. Basler, who has over 26,000 flying hours with more than 10,000 of those hours in DC-3s, is an expert on the DC-3. His commitment to the DC-3 led him to become the primary agent for an informal DC-3 network through which he would hear of DC-3s available for sale. Soon he was doing maintenance for other operators. It wasn’t long before he had seven Gooney Birds in the air. Warren Basler found (like everyone else) the DC-3 fit perfectly into his plans to expand his freight business. When Basler bought his first DC-3, he refurbished it, sold it and went into partnership with his customer, arranging charter flights. Holden July 2006)īasler began his company (at the time called Basler Flight Services) back in 1955, but Warren Basler, didn’t get into the DC-3 business until six years later. N21BF is awaiting its conversion to turbo power (Henry M.
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