Originally Posted by
pasir
Thanks Tagron - The problem being that although there are many reports on DC3 movements in and out of Croydon in the years quoted his argument seems to be that they are ALL WRONG ! He insists they were not DC3's but would have been C47's and other variants of the C47. I don't know if its possible to define a TRUE DC3
A DC-3 is a DC-3, and a C-47 is a C-47. The two designations are not interchangeable and every example built is either one or the other.
It's perfectly possible that all those movements were former military C-47s. For example you will see plenty of references to BEA "DC-3"s, but their Pionair and Leopard fleet were in fact civilianised C-47s. It's worth bearing in mind that there have only ever been 20 or so DC-3s on the UK register, but nearly 300 C-47s.