VT-CHF  Douglas DC-3                                                  (c/n  11810)

                                 

                                     Jupiter Airways was founded in Madras in 1949 and had an air mail contract to fly to Bombay.
                                     A modest fleet of ex C-47As were used.  The sample above was the former 42-92052 from
                                     the 8th AF in Europe.  In fact, this C-47A-DK was purported to have crashed at Salisbury,
                                     UK on 2 August 1944.  Evidently it was repaired since it wound up in India .  The airline's
                                     motto was "By Jupiter - that's quick"  However, to quote Ron Davis in his 'Airlines of Asia
                                     since 1920'  book "the only thing 'quick' about the airline was marked mainly by the speed
                                     of its demise".  In the event, the airline went broke in 1950 and -CHF went to Deccan Air-
                                     ways.   It later was absorbed into the Indian Airlines fleet, and then was destroyed in a crash
                                     at Nagpur on 12 December 1953.