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[[Image:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h22m46s888.jpg|thumb|right|300px|none|<i>Highway to Hawaii</i> screen title.]] | [[Image:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h22m46s888.jpg|thumb|right|300px|none|<i>Highway to Hawaii</i> screen title.]] | ||
<b>Documentary (1950)</b> | <b>Documentary (1950)</b> | ||
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[[Category:United Air Lines's series]][[:Category:United Air Lines's series|United Air Lines's series]] | [[Category:United Air Lines's series]][[:Category:United Air Lines's series|United Air Lines's series]] | ||
| − | + | UAL travelogue film about Hawaiian Islands. We follow a group of tourists visiting, Honolulu in Oahu island, Kauai, Maui, Hawaii. | |
= UAL's network to Hawaiian Islands= | = UAL's network to Hawaiian Islands= | ||
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[[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h42m51s350.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Douglas C-47A-20-DL Skytrain of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h42m51s350.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Douglas C-47A-20-DL Skytrain of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | ||
| − | == [[:Category: Douglas DC- | + | == [[:Category: Douglas DC-3|Douglas DC-3-408]] == |
Registration NC33649, c/n 4809. Built in 1941, registered NC30000 to unknown owner. Taken on Strength/Charge with the USAAF in 1943, registered 43-36600. Bought by [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]] after WWII, registered NC33649, named ''15'', then N33649. We lose track of the plane until June 1977 when a crash happened in 1977. The plane owned by Perez Tony, Hialeah, FL forced landing on drugs smuggling flight. The airframe was written off. | Registration NC33649, c/n 4809. Built in 1941, registered NC30000 to unknown owner. Taken on Strength/Charge with the USAAF in 1943, registered 43-36600. Bought by [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]] after WWII, registered NC33649, named ''15'', then N33649. We lose track of the plane until June 1977 when a crash happened in 1977. The plane owned by Perez Tony, Hialeah, FL forced landing on drugs smuggling flight. The airframe was written off. | ||
[[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h43m08s388.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.NC33649 Douglas DC-3-408 ''15'' of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h43m08s388.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.NC33649 Douglas DC-3-408 ''15'' of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | ||
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| − | == [[:Category: Douglas DC- | + | == [[:Category: Douglas DC-3|Douglas DC-3-408]] == |
Same airplane on route to Mauai.<br> | Same airplane on route to Mauai.<br> | ||
[[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h45m24s875.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.NC33649 Douglas DC-3-408 ''15'' of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | [[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h45m24s875.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.NC33649 Douglas DC-3-408 ''15'' of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] | ||
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== [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | == [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | ||
| − | Arrival at .<br> | + | Arrival at Kona Airport (closed in 1970) replaced by Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport (KOA/PHKO).<br> |
| − | [[File: | + | [[File: Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h47m43s145.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Douglas C-47 Skytrain of [[:Category: Hawaiian Airlines|Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service]].]] |
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| + | == [[:Category: Douglas DC-6|Douglas DC-6]] == | ||
| + | Generic view figuring end of the journey. | ||
| + | [[File:Vlcsnap-2024-04-03-08h52m41s580.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Douglas DC-6 of [[:Category: United Air Lines|United Air Lines]].]] | ||
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{{footnote}} | {{footnote}} | ||
| − | + | = See also = | |
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYhsvHWb4U&t=425s Highway to Hawaii on YouTube] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYhsvHWb4U&t=425s Highway to Hawaii on YouTube] | ||
* [https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1004524457-Highway-to-Hawaii.html Highway to Hawaii on IMCDb] | * [https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1004524457-Highway-to-Hawaii.html Highway to Hawaii on IMCDb] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:34, 24 April 2024
Documentary (1950)
Production:
Cate & McGlone Production)
Also from this series:
United Air Lines's series
UAL travelogue film about Hawaiian Islands. We follow a group of tourists visiting, Honolulu in Oahu island, Kauai, Maui, Hawaii.
UAL's network to Hawaiian Islands
Douglas DC-6
Unidentified airport terminal.
Douglas DC-6B (interior)
San Francisco to Honolulu (Oahu)
Douglas DC-6
Passing over the Golden Gate after departure from San Francisco.
Registration NC37504, c/n 42869/8. Delivered new to United Air Lines in March 1947, named 5204-Hawaii. Sold to Mars Aviation in November 1968. Broken up at Tarcey CA.
Landing at Honolulu International Airport.
A Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Douglas DC-3 to the left.
Boeing SB-17G SAR
At Hickam Air Force Base (former Hickam Field).[See discussion tab]
One of the 130 B-17Gs converted for air-sea rescue missions for the USAAF carrying an airborne lifeboat. Initially designated as B-17H then Boeing SB-17G in 1948.
Note the Sikorsky R-6 flying above in the background.
Douglas C-47A-20-DL Skytrain
At Honolulu International Airport.
Registration NC86598, c/n 9392. Delivered to the USAAF in 1943, registered 42-23530. Sold to Continental Air Lines after WWII, registered NC86598, then to Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service named 19, then All American Airways, re-registered N91233. Transferred to Allegheny Airlines in January 1953, re-registered N153A in July 1953. Bought by Bellomy Lawson Aviation Inc. in August 1967. Sold to Rentavion, Venezuela registered YV-2183P then YV-146C. Stored at Higuerote Venezuela SVHG.
Another one from the same company in the background.
A Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Douglas DC-3 to the right.
Leaving Honolulu International Airport.
Honolulu (Oahu) to Kauai
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
On approach to Kauai.
Unidentified registration, but certainly different from the other 2.
Douglas DC-3-408
Registration NC33649, c/n 4809. Built in 1941, registered NC30000 to unknown owner. Taken on Strength/Charge with the USAAF in 1943, registered 43-36600. Bought by Hawaiian Airlines Inter-Island Service after WWII, registered NC33649, named 15, then N33649. We lose track of the plane until June 1977 when a crash happened in 1977. The plane owned by Perez Tony, Hialeah, FL forced landing on drugs smuggling flight. The airframe was written off.
Final taxiing at Barking Sands Airport, Kekaha-Kauai (BKH/PHBK).
Kauai to Mauai
Douglas DC-3-408
Same airplane on route to Mauai.
Beechcraft B35 Bonanza
Mauai to Hawaii
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Arrival at Kona Airport (closed in 1970) replaced by Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport (KOA/PHKO).
Douglas DC-6
Generic view figuring end of the journey.
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