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All American Airways DC-3....Big Thank You!!!


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Hey Guys, I've been on this forum for about a year now and I'm mainly a lurker but I'm damn glad I posted thread about 6-9 months ago. I came on here and asked if anyone knew who could make custom decals and people told me about Michael Vykukal of Vintage Flyer Decals. I sent Michael an email with a couple of pictures and about 2 weeks later I had these decals.

Why All American Airways? My grandfather worked for them and then my father was a pilot for Allegheny/USAir (for those who don't know, All American changed their name to Allegheny and then USAir). These pictures aren't the best, but I just wanted to post these. As soon as I'm completely done with it and have it all cleaned up, I will post better pictures.

In the mean time I just wanted to say a big Thank You to Michael, and he does excellent work!

Thanks Michael!

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Pretty Bird!

DC-3 is my first favorite, too!

Second is the Ercoupe, of all things.

Was N91221 one of the planes your granfather worked on - or did he work on all of 'em?

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Pretty Bird!

DC-3 is my first favorite, too!

Second is the Ercoupe, of all things.

Was N91221 one of the planes your granfather worked on - or did he work on all of 'em?

Thanks!

He was a director of personnel, hiring and training pilots and mechanics. I know he flew the Stinson Reliants, training the pilots how to do the air mail pick up, not sure if he ever got in the DC-3 at AAA.

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Nice job on the -3! It's work to get the minicraft kit looking that good!

It's actually the Monogram 1/48 kit. I'm 6ft 7in tall, so I don't have the smallest of hands, those Minicraft kits are hard for me to work with.

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I've not heard of that decal company before. They look pretty nice though. How is the Monogram DC-3? I have the C-47 version in the stash and it has been calling to me.

Michael posts here I believe, at least this is where I found out about him.

It's a nice fitting model, this is the 3-4 airplane I've ever built so I'm not an expert on model critiquing.

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