by Mike on Mon 14 May 2012, 4:27 pm
This is one of three wrecks that were recovered from the South Pacific in the 90s and rebuilt in Russia (using mostly new metal) and fitted with R-1830s from DC-3s. The first is now with the CAF at Camarillo, the second is this one, and the third one (which spent some time stored at Duxford in the late-90s) ended up with Paul Allen in Seattle, and last month finally made its first flight in the hands of Steve Hinton.
This one was used for the 'Pearl Harbor' movie filming in Hawaii, and has been stored since then. It appeared at Chino's airshow last week, and has now been leased from its owner (a Japanese businessman) by a new flying museum in Anchorage, Alaska, and was being ferried up there over the past few days.
