An odd coincidence. When I was about twelve, and aviation mad, I was living in Western Australia. The local airline, McRobertson Miller was replacing its DC3s with F27s, and the paper ran a competition (I forget what the entry was) with a first prize of a day out with the crew. I won the competition, but the notification arrived too late to take up the offer, and the airline wouldn't budge on an alternative date. Strange to think that some twenty years later I would end up having a command on the same type.