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C-53 Skytrooper ‘Beach City Baby’ Flies!

May 16, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As many readers are well aware, we have been following the restoration of combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095, better known as Beach City Baby, for some years now. Jason Capra and his band of […]

C-53 Skytrooper ‘Beach City Baby’ – Fundraiser

February 28, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

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C-53 Skytrooper ‘Beach City Baby’ – February 2022 Restoration Update

February 6, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Over the past seven years, we have been following the remarkable efforts by Jason Capra and his team at Vintage Wings Inc. as they have resurrected a combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper from its then […]

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C-53 Skytrooper ‘Beach City Baby’ Performs First Taxi Trials

December 13, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As regular readers will know, we have been following the remarkable efforts of Jason Capra and Vintage Wings Inc. over the past five years as they successfully pursued the resurrection of combat-veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095. […]

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Beach City Baby – Progress Update – September 2021

September 21, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As regular readers will know, we have been following the remarkable efforts of Jason Capra and Vintage Wings Inc. over the past few years as they have successfully pursued the resurrection of combat-veteran Douglas C-53 […]

C-53 Skytrooper “Beach City Baby” – Winter 2021 Restoration Update

January 5, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Here is the latest update from Jason Capra on progress with the resurrection of Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, Beach City Baby, under restoration with Capra and his team at Vintage Wings Inc. in Franklin, Pennsylvania. If […]

C-53 Skytrooper Beach City Baby – Winter 2020 Restoration Update

March 16, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 3

It has been almost six months since we last updated readers on progress with Vintage Wings Inc’s combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper Beach City Baby. The Operation Torch veteran and workhorse of the North Africa […]

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Douglas C-53 Skytrooper Beach City Baby – Restoration Update (Oct. 2019)

October 13, 2019 Moreno Aguiari 1

Douglas C-53 Skytrooper Beach City Baby – Restoration Update (Oct. 2019) by Jason Capra Almost exactly a year ago, our Douglas C-53-DO Skytrooper 41-20095, better known as Beach City Baby, took to the air again for the […]

‘Beach City Baby’ Flies! – WWII Combat Vet C-53 Airborne Again

October 8, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

A historic, combat-veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper (41-20095) took to the skies again for the first time in several decades in Beach City, Ohio on Saturday October 6th, 2018 following a remarkable three-year effort by Jason […]

Vintage Wings’ Douglas C-53 Skytrooper – Restoration Update

March 15, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

Over the past two years, WarbirdsNews has been reporting on the efforts of Jason Capra and his team at Vintage Wings, Inc. to resurrect an abandoned combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper back to flying condition […]

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