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D Day Squadron Visiting the Shuttleworth collection in 2019 Nigel Hitchman

D-Day Squadron Attending Shuttleworth’s D-Day Weekend 2024

January 22, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE Over the bank holiday weekend of May 25-26, 2024, Shuttleworth will be playing host to the world-renowned D-Day Squadron, who will be starting their European tour in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of […]

1945 Douglas C 47B Skytrain known as Texas Zephyr

CAF Highland Lakes Squadron Announces C-47’s Return to RCAF Colors

December 27, 2023 Luc Zipkin 0

By Luc Zipkin The Highland Lakes Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), based in Burnet, Texas, has announced an initiative to restore their 1945 Douglas C-47B Skytrain, known as Texas Zephyr, to its appropriate […]

Be A D-Day Paratrooper In AAM’s WWII C-47 Skytrain

October 2, 2023 Angela Decker 0

PRESS RELEASE The American Airpower Museum proudly announces another Douglas C-47 “Skytrain” D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, October 7, 2023 (Oct. 8 rain date). In a one-of-a-kind immersive educational program, AAM’s C-47 troop transport will conduct […]

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Florida Air Cargo – Where Douglas DC-3s Still Work for a Living

March 2, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 10

Florida Air Cargo still operates three DC-3/C-47 on a commercial basis – almost ninety years after the type’s initial flight on December 17, 1935! […]

CAF Highland Lakes Squadron – Douglas Dakota “Texas Zephyr” Arriving Home Soon!

August 30, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Back in November 2019, we published a story about the Commemorative Air Force’s Highland Lakes Squadron having received an incredibly generous gift from one of their supporters, Karl Ritter of Brady, Texas. Ritter donated his Douglas Dakota Mk.IV […]

The last operational U.S. Air Force C 47 Skytrain 43 49507 on display at NMUSAF. U.S. Air Force

Today in Aviation History: Last Operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain Was Retired

June 30, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On June 30, 1975, the last operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport in service with the United States Air Force, 43-49507, was retired and flown to the […]

June 26, 1948 – The First Day of The Berlin Airlift

June 26, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 1

At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The United States, United […]

American Airpower Museum’s C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience Returns

June 8, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

On Saturday, June 12, 2021, the American Airpower Museum’s will resume their Living History Flight Experience program in their WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain “Second Chance” to celebrate the start of summer and a return to […]

DC-3 Christmas Lights Flights Are a Texas Christmas Tradition

December 21, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

Story and Photos by Gary Daniels The writer of the popular Christmas poem, “T’was The Night Before Christmas,” describes his awe as ‘ol St. Nick descends from the night sky and arrives “with such a […]

The Golden Age Air Tours 1939 Douglas DC 3

The Anniversary Of The Legend Of The Skies

December 17, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

December 17, 2020 From an original article by Larry Merritt for Boeing Frontiers Online, adapted by Jason Capra of Vintage Wings. and our staff. 85 years ago today, one of aviation’s best-known and most-loved airplanes […]

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