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• Michael Bludworth said:

  Northrop YC-125 Pioneer

• Batman_60 said:

  Or C-125 "Raider". 3 x R-1820s. A postwar design for a simple, rugged STOL transport, channeling the early '30s Ju-52/3M. A factory shot. The front aircraft is probably ready to roll out. There's one sitting outside at the US Air Force Museum in Ohio.

• n74jrw said:

  Wiki-page; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YC-125_Raider

• Water Tower Nut said:

  Northrop's first post-war civil design was a three-engined STOL passenger and cargo transport named the Northrop N-23 Pioneer. The Pioneer could carry 36 passengers or five tons of cargo and first flew on 21 December 1946. The aircraft had a good performance, but there was little interest due to the availability of cheap war surplus aircraft. The Pioneer was lost in a fatal crash in 1947. In 1948 the United States Air Force expressed interest in an aircraft of the same configuration and placed an order with Northrop for 23 aircraft, 13 troop transports designated the C-125A Raider and 10 for Arctic rescue work designated the C-125B. With the company designation N-32 Raider the first aircraft flew on 1 August 1949.(Wikipedia)

• carlosbezz said:

  Congratulations!
  This is a wonderful shot!
  You are invited to post it to:
  
  
  artland