From kls Sun Dec 8 04:12:34 1996 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,misc.transport.air-industry Path: bounce-back Date: 08 Dec 96 04:12:34 From: cakes@erinet.com (Clark Sheppard) Subject: Re: Help ID Piedmont Propeller Planes, Please References: <589hun$2ug@kragar.kei.com> Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: EriNet Online 513 436-1700 (Voice) In article <589hun$2ug@kragar.kei.com>, JW6191A@american.edu (John Witherspoon) wrote: >In the mid to late 1970s, Piedmont Airlines flew propeller planes into >Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's airport, which was not at the time (and is >not presently) equipped for commercial jets (jet traffic into MYB started >soon thereafter, when all commercial flights were moved to the civilian >terminal of the Myrtle Beach Air Force base). > >Can anyone shed any light on what type of planes these prop transports >might have been? If memory serves, they were large, four engine planes, >i.e. bigger than, say, Convair 580s. Probably the YS-11. I fly their old planes now for Airborne Express. Clark -- Clark Sheppard