This Douglas DC-3-362, registration number NC1945, serial number 3294, was delivered to Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) at Kansas City, Missouri on March 4, 1941. About sixty percent of all DC-3 aircraft went to war in WWII as transports; this one did not. In fact, NC1945 is one of the very few existing DC-3s with the rare 24-passenger, 8-window configuration. This airplane flew with TWA as from 1941 until 1952 before going on to North Central Airlines. Later the plane become a charter airliner and test bed. It then sat in the Californinan and New Mexican deserts before being purchased by a museum in Denver. It was purchased in 1993 by AHM and eventually trucked to Kansas City. It is on its way to being airworthy again in the next year. This plane is worthy of donations to get it back in the air. Also, see Delta Ship 33.