Piedmont Airlines Douglas DC-3CS1C3G   NC79029            (c/n 20471)

                                             

                                                     Another airline which eventually merged into the Allegheny family (and consequently is an
                                                     ancestor of USAir) was Piedmont Airlines of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  The DC-3
                                                     above was built as a C-47A-90-DL  with USAAF serial 43-16005.  It was civilianized in
                                                     1946 in freighter configuration for Lone Star Cargo Lines.  Piedmont acquired it in1948.   In
                                                     the mid 1950s Piedmont re-registered its DC-3s into a new series and N79029 became
                                                     N47V.   It was sold in 1960 to the Spanish Air Force and became T.3-26.  It was withdrawn
                                                     from use following an accident in April 1962.