AOPA Pilot Magazine - April 2023 - 64
A historic airframe
From WWII transport to 'Buckeye One'
The DC-3 was one of the most successful
aircraft designs in history. Nearly 90 years
after its first flight, there are still models of
the metal behemoths flying commercially.
Beach City Baby was delivered to the U.S.
Army Air Corps in 1942 after it was built in
Santa Monica, California.
It was assigned to Ferry Command in
Maine, where civilian pilots operated it on
flights to and from England. In November
1942, it was assigned to Air Transport
Command, where Army pilots took the helm.
It flew personnel and evacuated wounded
soldiers in North Africa and Italy, and
ultimately was stationed in Cairo.
After the war, it was sold to and operated
Each volunteer
signed a new
horizontal
stabilizer,
which was
installed in
early 2023.
The work was completed by Capra, Matz,
and an extensive team of volunteers whose
experience ranges from a middle school student
to career airline mechanics. Capra made sure
anyone who wanted to help out had a job to do,
especially younger volunteers.
" If we can't pass this on-and this knowledge
on and this passion on-to the next generation,
these airplanes aren't going to fly, " Capra said.
" I was turned away from an organization or
two even when I was a kid, because people
don't know how passionate or serious you are
with this stuff. But you never know. Taking two
minutes to talk to somebody and actually just
sharing with them what you're doing, what kind
of fire that can ignite to spark their passion to
want to pursue their dreams. "
Sophia Breitenbach, the middle school student,
came to work on the airplane with her dad,
John Breitenbach, who is an A&P.
by Danish Airlines until 1952 when it returned
stateside and was converted for corporate use.
It was during this conversion that large horizon
windows were installed, replacing the smaller
stock windows aft of the wing.
During the 1960s and 1970s, it was an
ambassador for general aviation when it
was Buckeye One, the governor of Ohio's
official airplane. Gov. Jim Rhodes set a goal to
open an airport in every county in the state,
and the airplane was on hand for several of
those airport openings. (Norm Crabtree, who
famously said, " The airport runway is the most
important main street in any town, " was Ohio's
deputy director for aviation during this effort.)
After the state of Ohio retired the airplane,
it was flown to the U.S. Air Force Museum in
Dayton. Ohio University in Athens purchased
it in 1990, but only for its engines. The school
owned another DC-3 and needed to keep
it running. Two years later it was sold again,
and the new owner purchased engines for
the airplane and ferried it to Beach City, Ohio,
where it sat until Jason Capra saw it in 2015.
-CC
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