Pacific Northern Airlines  Douglas DC-3-357       NC28340            (c/n  3277)

                                    

                                           Pacific Northern Airlines was the successor to Woodley Airways, formed at Anchorage in 1932
                                           by Arthuir Woodley.  The line grew and was renamed Pacific Northern in 1950 after the CAB
                                           awarded Mr.Woodley the prestigious Anchorage to Seattle trunk route.  The grainy shot above
                                           of a PNA DC-3 actually came from a boading-pass holder, circa 1950.  The photo is somewhat
                                           of a mystery in so far as no DC-3 listing I possess ever puts NC28340 in the service of Pacific
                                           Northern!   The image does not look doctored, however, and I wonder why they would go to the
                                           trouble of airbrushing an image with their livery and superimposing it above this typical terrain when
                                           they had DC-3s of their own (see image below of N37465)?    NC28340, in fact, was the aircraft
                                           always used.in Delta Air Lines publicity shots (and thereby hangs a tail).  Delta eventually sold it
                                           to Mohawk who re-registered it N409D.  

                                           N37465 on the other hand was a post-war produced DC-3D with c/n 42955.  It was delivered
                                           new to Woodley Airways in 1946.   It later went to Air Afrique as TU-TIA and was last reported
                                           derelict at Abidjan.