[Scan-DC] FAA’S 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:53:33 -0400 "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com>
writes:
> FAA News
> Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC 20591
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008
> Contact: Les Dorr, Jr. or Paul Turk
> 
....

> ·        The FAA’s “Flying Classroom.” N34, the FAA’s restored DC-3
> flight inspection aircraft, makes a perfect setting for live shots
> about the agency’s 50th anniversary. The plane will be at Reagan
> National’s Hangar 6 on August 20-21. We can arrange parking for
> broadcast trucks. More information on N34 can be found at:
> www.faa.gov/about/
history/photo_album/caa_to_faa/index.cfm?cid=Memorable

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Re: [Scan-DC] Did a DC-3 just fly over Alexandria?

From: b_thom at juno.com
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:43:57 -0400
Subject: [Scan-DC] Did a DC-3 just fly over Alexandria?

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:43:57 -0400 b_thom at juno.com writes:
> It certainly sounded like one, headed east, directly over the Del 
> Ray,
> George Washington Middle School area. By the time it dawned on me 
> that
> this was not a usual aircraft sound and that I should go outside, 
> the
> aircraft was in the distance. I should have acted more quickly.

Last week, I asked at Scan-DC if it was a DC-3 that I heard flying over
Alexandria. Could that have been this plane?
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