California Central
Airlines Douglas DC-3 N12935
(c/n 6335)
California Central
Airlines was one of the airlines owned and operated by Col. Charles
Sherman.
His holding company was Airline Transport
Carriers (who also owned California Hawaiian Airlines),
and ATC flew as a non-scheduled airline in its
own right from 1947 to 1949. Upon receiving its
intra-state certificate it was renamed
California Central. The above shot was taken by Bill
Larkins
at Oakland in 1953. N12935 was
built in 1942 to an Eastern Air Lines order (was to have been
NC30033) but the
intervention of WW II had it diverted to the USAAF as a C-49K-DO
(43-2010).
It also served with Ozark Airlines as N148D.