Photograph
North Central Airplane
| A North Central Convair airplane on the ground at Austin Straubel Airport. Green Bay was an important "mini-hub" for North Central, formerly Wisconsin Central, through the 1970s. In 1952 the Air Force reclaimed hangar at Truax Field. Wisconsin Central Airlines was forced to move its headquarters to Minneapolis, at the same time changing its name to North Central Airlines. |
| Image ID: | 11519 |
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| Creation Date: | 11 25 1966 |
| Creator Name: | Green Bay Press Gazette |
| City: | Green Bay |
| County: | Brown |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Green Bay press-gazette photographs, 1955-1961 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3153.702 |
| Original Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1 inches |
| From Scott Piepenburg 7/25/06: "The aircraft is identified as a DC-3 but is actually a Convair-440. A DC-3 did not use a tri-cycle landing gear and North Central didn't fly the Convair 340." |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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