EP-ACU   Douglas DC-3                                           (c/n  4113)

                                 

                                       This is a Peter R. Keating shot taken at Beirut in 1957.  Note Middle East Airlines' Avro York
                                       in the background.  EP-ACU was built in 1941 as NC33641, United Airlines'  'Mainliner
                                       Salem'.  It was then impressed into the USAAF as a C-49B with serial no 41-7691, and
                                       re-civliianized to United again in 1944 who named it 'Mainliner Utah'.  It went to Transocean
                                       Airlines of Oakland in 1947.  Several of Ian Air's DC-3s were ex-Transocean who had an
                                       interest in the company, and -ACU is seen above in more or less Transocean livery.  It was
                                       leased for a short while to Air Jordan as JY-AAB, before returning to Iran Air.  Final fate
                                       unknown