page_title: Ontario Central Airlines
section_title: Douglas DC-3
hierarchical_section_title: Ontario Central Airlines / Fleet / Douglas DC-3
caption_attribution_description: English: At Red Deer Regional Airport
context_page_description: Ontario Central Airlines was a Canadian airline headquartered in Kenora, Ontario. It was founded in 1947. In 1984, the airline was renamed Nunasi-Central Airlines.
context_section_description: CF-ABA c/n 20562. Built as Douglas C-47A-90-DL 43-16096 for the USAAF. Transferred to the RNoAF in May 1945 and then sold to Norwegian Air Lines in October 1947 and registered LN-IAN.  Sold in March 1949 to Les Avions Bleus and registered F-OADR. Sold in 1951 to Cornell Dublier Electric Corp, New Jersey and re-registered N9989F. Sold in January 1968 to Huber Homes Inc and re-registered N355HH. Sold in January 1970 to H M Dunn, Lexington, Kentucky and then to Midwest Airlines in June 1970. Sold in June 1972 to Aviation Sales International and re-registered CF-ABA. Sold in July 1972 to Albig Aviation, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec and then to Sigfusson Transport, Winnipeg, Manitoba in April 1973. Sold that same month to Superior Airways and then to Ontario Central Airways, Reindeer Air Service and Wright Enterprises, Edmonton, Alberta by 1974. Sold to Ilford Riverton Airways in 1978, by which time registration had been changed to C-FABA. Sold in January 1979 to Wright Enterprises and then sold in September 1979 to Yukon Air Service, Fairbanks, Alaska and re-registered N3FT. The next owner was Air North then sold in 1990 to Rocky Mountain Helicopter, Provo, Utah. Sold in October 1993 to Living Water Teaching Inc and based in Guatemala. Written off on 1 November 1998 when it crashed into a mountain on approach to Quetzaltenango Airport.  Eleven of the 18 people on board were killed.
  CF-BKV c/n 4441. Built as Douglas R4D-1 BuNo 01985 for the United States Navy. Struck off charge on 30 September 1946 and placed on United States Civil Register as NC4806N, then to RCAF in June 1951 as RCAF10912. Re-serialled RCAF12967 in June 1970. Sold in November 1973 to Atlantic Central Airlines and registered CF-BKV. Bought by Ontario Central Airlines that month. Leased to Patricia Air Services but written off on 12 May 1977 at Pickle Lake Airport, Ontario.
  CF-YQG c/n 4654. Built as a Douglas R4D-1 BuNo 05054 for the United States Navy. Struck off charge on 30 April 1946 and registered NC62001. To Crane Co in 1951 and then to Beldex Corp and registered N99U. Sold in June 1963 to John F Oyster Manufacturing Co, Pittsburgh. Bought by Ontario Central Airlines in July 1969 and re-registered CF-YQG. Re-registered C-FYQG in 1980, passing to Nunasi-Central Airlines in March 1987 and served until October 1996. In 2007, the aircraft was owned by Buffalo Airways and in store at Red Deer Airport.
  C-GCKE Originally built as a Douglas C-47B-20-DK for the USAAF as 43-49942. To the RAF as KN270, later to the RCAF, retaining RAF serial. Bought by Ontario Central Airlines and re-registered C-GCKE, in service until December 1984. In service until December 1985 then leased back to Ontario Central Airlines until March 1986. Leased to Perimeter Airlines Inland until May 1986. Leased to Ata Construction Lted, Norman Wells, Northwest Territories until 1989, then to Calm Air. Later sold to Randy Daoust, St. Albert, Alberta but registration cancelled in 1995. As of December 2008, registered as N47HL Bluebonnet Belle and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, Midland, Texas, United States.
  C-GSTA c/n 10201. Built in 1943 as a Douglas C-47-60-DL for the USAAF as 43-24339. Transferred to the RCAF in September 1943. Sold to the RAFO in 1969 and allocated serial 502. Sold to a Norwegian owner in 1972 and registered LN-TVA. Bought by Ontario Central Airlines and registered C-GSTA. Sold in 1991 to SADELCA, Colombia and re-registered HK-2663X. Sold in 1992 to SAEP and served until 1994 when placed in storage. Served at one time with AeroVanguardia. In April 2004, the aircraft was in service with ARAL.
caption: Nunasi-Central Douglas DC-3 CF-YQG
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