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Lake Central Airlines DC-3, Purdue University Airport, West Lafayette, Indiana, July, 1966
DC-3’s still fly today in remote parts of the world performing cargo and charter duties. Including the C-47 military version and licensed production to other countries more than 16,000 of these planes were manufactured. The DC-3 civilian version made safe and profitable passenger service a reality beginning in 1936 between Chicago and New York. No previous airplane could safely and comfortably carry enough passengers to make commercial air travel a profitable venture. Vintage photographs of commercial airport operations in the 1930’s through the late 1940’s clearly indicate that most US carriers operated DC-3’s to the exclusion of nearly all other aircraft. WWII hastened the development of larger four-engine planes which gradually replaced DC-3’s on longer domestic and international routes. Into the 1960’s many regional carriers retained these venerable aircraft for short haul routes. The Purdue University Airport connected Lafayette, Indiana with O’Hare Airport in Chicago via Lake Central Airlines which was eventually absorbed by Allegheny Airlines in 1968. Over the years since Allegheny’s discontinuance of service to Lafayette in 1971, there have been lengthy interruptions in the city’s air service as commercial air travel evolved. Limited service to Lafayette resumed in 2015. Close proximity to Indianapolis and Chicago has always made air service to this northwest Indiana community a marginal prospect. As Purdue University has grown, demand for convenient air service has gradually expanded. To ride a DC-3 in 1966 was to experience the lingering smell of aviation gasoline, noisy engines, air turbulence and minimal air conditioning on a hot day…but most of all it was a lesson in how far even back then jet air travel had evolved. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide made with a Yashica J-5 SLR using a 50mm lens
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