Boeing
C-75 Stratoliner 42-88627
(c/n 2001)
During WW II five TWA Boeing Stratoliners were impressed
into service with the U.S. Army Air
Corps. This was the former
NC19909 "Navajo".
These aircraft did sterling work during the
conflict and were used on
both the North Atlantic route from New York to Prestwick, Scotland,
and also on the
southern route from Washington D.C. to Cairo, crossing the South
Atlantic at its
narrowest point. They
were returned to TWA at the end of the war, although soon sold off
since
they were outclassed
by then by the DC-4s and Constellations. This one wound up
with the
French line Aigle
Azur as F-BELZ.