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This is Bill Boeing's (yes, that "Boeing") personal Douglas Dolphin (NC14205 / c/n 1280) named "Rover." This aircraft is still extant and currently on exhibit, albeit painted in United States Coast Guard colors, at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. Here's a relatively recent photo of the aircraft from Steffen Kahl's Flickr photostream:

Pictured at Burbank?

Avro 691 Lancastrian 3 G-AGWH cn 1280 'Stardust' BSAA (British South American Airways) which famously crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes on August 2, 1947. Much mystery surrounds the incident. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dus... The last Morse code message received, "STENDEC", supposedly repeated twice before the crash, has been the subject of much mystery and intrigue ever since. The North Texas Skeptic published this exhaustive analysis of the message and offers its version of an explanation. www.ntskeptics.org/2010/2010december/december2010.pdf

Douglas Dolphin 117 c/n 1280 NC14205 owned by William Boeing, and named Rover. This is the sole surviving example of the Dolphin, and this very aircraft currently resides in the US Navy Museum in Pensacola, FL, masquerading as a Coast Guard example. After Boeing sold it, it was used during the war years by the CAA, the predecessor to the current FAA.

Douglas Dolphin 117 NC14205 c/n 1280 'Rover ' owned by William E. Boeing, later NC26, N26K, now displayed in USCG colors at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL. SDASM Steffen Kahl