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This black and white photograph shows the chief pilot's seat inside the cockpit of a Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's reconverted DC-4. The plane was equipped with four Pratt & Whitney engines, each capable of generating 1450 horsepower at takeoff. Radio and flight equipment included automatic direction finder units, two-way high frequency communications and two-way very high frequency communications and two-way very high frequency transmission and receiving units, and auxiliary range receiver used in conjunction with a fixed loop antenna for antistatic purposes and a glide path and runway localizer receivers of high frequency.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1948 and 1952
Item Number: 51872
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #384.10-6679
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 51872
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Distribution & Transportation Artifacts - Aerospace Transportation, Equipment
Transportation - Air Travel
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Type of Material - Photographs
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