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withdrawn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.