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THE PANTAGRAPH. Monday. Dec. 16. 1985 A3 Plane lovers give 'Miss Moss Back' her second wind liirnjaj if Dubbed "Miss Moss Back" on her arrival at the Bloomington-Normal Airport in November 1984.

this 43-year-old DC-3 was overhauled inside and out by members of the Prairie Aviation Museum and will be on display at the airport as a historical piece. The plane also will fly in air shows. Illinois man suspected in Ark. murders FORT SMITH. Ark.

(AP) Prosecutor Ron Fields said yesterday he would file one count of capital murder today against a 29-year-old Southern Illinois man in the strangulations last week of three Fort Smith residents. Mark E. Gardner. 29. of Murphysboro, 111., was arrested late Friday in the deaths Thursday of Joe Joyce, 57, Martha Joyce, 60, and their daughter, Sarah McCurdy, 31.

Fields confirmed that Gardner also is wanted on three warrants from Peoria, 111. The warrants accuse Gardner of home invasion, aggravated criminal sexual assault and armed robbery, he said. Gardner will "be handled in court here, then it will be up to Illinois to decide whether to extradite him," Fields said in a telephone interview. "We'll cooperate with them in any way we possibly can." Gardner was in the Sebastian County Jail yesterday, awaiting arraignment today. Fields couldn't confirm the part of the report by the Southern Illi-noisan newspaper that said Gardner was convicted of burglary in Williamson County in 1980 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The newspaper said a state appeals court in 1982 reduced the sentence to 10 years in prison, and that Gardner would have been eligible for parole sometime this year. Fields said he would decide by 9 a.m. today in which court he would by many of the museum membership who remember what the plane looked like the first time it came to the Twin Cities. The newly painted and restored aircraft will be shown off by the aviation group at an open house from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the airport terminal building.

The open house is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first flight of a DC-3 airliner on Dec. 17, 1935, at Santa Monica, Calif. Even though the main attraction at the open house will be the newly restored DC-3, the aviation group also will display other DC-3 memorabilia and will show films pertaining to the history of the airliner. The 1942 DC-3 was purchased last year by Prairie Aviation Museum for $28,000 from Tradewinds Aircraft of San Antonio, Texas. It was the first purchase for the museum group, and the plane was paid for with money from fundraisers and a $25,000 loan from Olympic Federal of Bloomington.

During the spring, summer and fall of this year, nearly all of the 150 members of the museum volunteered their time to restore the By MELINDA ZEHR Pantagraph staff 'The Grand Old Lady" is what they call it now, but the historical piece of aircraft hasn't always had such a glamorous name. In fact, on Nov. 19, 1984, when the airplane first landed at the Bloomington-Normal Airport, it was given the name "Miss Moss Back." That name came about because the plane hadn't flown for about 15 years and green moss had collected on its top. But the moss has disappeared now, and most people who know little about airplanes would think that the 43-year-old DC-3 was brand new. There is one specific group that knows better.

The group is the membership of the Prairie Aviation Museum, which is in the preliminary stages of someday having a museum that is open year-round at the Bloomington-Normal airport. "I feel kind of bad that we ever called her 'Miss Moss because now she doesn't look anything like that," said Dave Smith, spokesman for the museum group. The 1942 DC-3 flew into the Bloomington-Normal Airport yesterday afternoon and was greeted The lack of a new coat of paint, however, didn't seem to stop Ozark Airlines from wanting the museum to loan them the DC-3 for display during its 35th anniversary open house on Sept. 28, 1985. So the plane left the Bloomington-Normal Airport on Sept.

16, to become the main attraction. aircraft. Seven members made significant contributions of their time, allowing the restoration to be completed quickly. Those members are Dan Williams, Jack Langhoff, Dennis Beard, Bill Baird, Bill Leff, Bill Addems and Mike Herrin. The members removed corrosion on the plane and did extensive cleaning of the exterior and interior of the aircraft.

Even with all that work complete, the DC-3 wasn't completely restored because it needed a new coat of paint. So far about $10,000 had been spent on materials to fix up the aircraft, and the membership didn't have the money needed to paint the airplane. the DC-3 looked like a 1950s edition of one of the airline's DC-3 planes. Also while in St. Louis, volunteer Ozark employees and others from the St.

Louis Air Guard completed some electrical and structural maintenance on the plane. "It's just amazing," Smith said. "We now have something that all that were involved can be proud of." Smith said the DC-3 will now be on display at the Bloomington-Normal Airport. In the future the DC-3 will be flown in air shows put on by Prairie Aviation Museum and others, including those sponsored by Ozark. Once the plane got to Ozark's open house location in St.

Louis, many of workers there who remember the days when the DC-3 was a popular aircraft wanted to give the plane a new look. Ozark officials agreed to pay for the paint needed, and work got under way. Eleven days later, the exterior of Aircraft, pilot quality down under deregulation, pilots say 'Although competition is a good thing, I think it has taken emphasis away from safety and efficiently moving passengers from one place to another, and has wrongly placed the emphasis on making a DALLAS (AP) Almost half of more than 1,200 U.S. passenger pilots recently questioned said aircraft maintenance and the quality of new pilots appears to have declined since the airline industry was deregulated, the Dallas Times Herald reported yesterday. Almost two-thirds said they believe deregulation has made flying more dangerous, and one-third said the quality of air traffic control has worsened, the newspaper reported in a copyrighted story.

Only 1 in 70 saw increased safety result from deregulation, instituted by the federal government in 1978 to promote competition within the industry, and five of eight, or 63.7 percent, said deregulation has made air travel more dangerous. In written comments and in follow-up interviews to the mailed questionnaire, pilots stressed that flying is still the safest way to travel and that passengers need not said. But the Air Transport Association, a major industry lobbying group, said the survey's results were invalid because those pilots who have complaints about safety are more likely to respond than those who believe the system is operating properly. Thomas Tripp, a transport association spokesman, said the results were irrelevant because the industry's safety record has actually improved since deregulation. "You can't debate safety on the grounds of the pilots' feelings.

You've got to have the facts, something to make a point, and I'm not aware that they do," Tripp said. The Times Herald said some pilots acknowledged that their anger, particularly over the effects of deregulation, stemmed from the erosion of benefits as a result of cost-conscious competition and what they see as the union-busting tactics. Williams, a captain for Piedmont Airlines. "It really makes you worry, because not everyone has their mind on the job." "Deregulation has taken one of the best transportation systems in the world and virtually crippled it," wrote a Mississippi-based pilot with more than 10 years' experience. "Although competition is a good thing, I think it has taken emphasis away from safety and efficiently moving passengers from one place to another, and has wrongly placed the emphasis on making a buck," the pilot said.

The pilots all fly for passenger airlines and hold airline transport certificates. The survey posed a range of questions about the airline industry and safety issues. The Air Line Pilots Association and the Federal Aviation Administration declined to comment on the survey, the Times Herald charge Gardner. Acting Police Chief Bill Young said the Joyces went to a funeral Thursday, and police believe Ms. McCurdy became worried when she couldn't reach her parents by telephone.

Young said the woman's co-workers at a department store called a relative of Ms. McCurdy when she didn't return from lunch. Ms. McCurdy lived next door to her pa-, rents. The relative found a body in the living room in the front part of the house.

Police found the other two bodies in the back part of the house. Police said the three had been bound and gagged. fear for their lives when boarding an airplane. But most expressed concerns about developing trends, the Times Herald reported. "It's like there is this psychological air of impending doom over everyone (in the industry), a sword of Damocles," said J.A.

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