DC3 / C47 photo thread

evangilder · Mar 29, 2009

Actually, D-Day Doll is a C-53 Skytrooper, but it did drop a stick of paratroopers over Normandy the night before the invasion, so it is a real veteran.

ToughOmbre · Mar 29, 2009

evangilder said:
Actually, D-Day Doll is a C-53 Skytrooper, but it did drop a stick of paratroopers over Normandy the night before the invasion, so it is a real veteran.

Like I said, love "invasion stripes" stripes on a C-53.

Glad to hear that Skytrooper is a combat veteran. Ain't many warbirds around that saw action, of any type, I don't think.

TO

evangilder · Mar 29, 2009

Interestingly, the C-47s that are still around have at least some combat experience. The Estrella C-47 "Betty's Biscuit Bomber" was involved in Normandy and Market Garden. I don't know the provenance of the Palm Springs one, nor the new Camarillo one (both being former IAF Dakotas too). I am trying to find out about the Clay Lacy DC-3, there seems to be some mystery about it as well. It appears to be a former C-47 also, with a partial serial from another aircraft on the nose.

pbfoot · Mar 29, 2009

This geneseo 47 may have dropped the the Band of Brother guys according to their info

ToughOmbre · Mar 29, 2009

From the 2008 Reading WW II Weekend Airshow....

TO

rochie · Mar 29, 2009

these are from the yorkshire air museum at elvington

Micdrow · Mar 29, 2009

Sweet pictures there guys!!!

Heinz · Mar 30, 2009

Great shots guys thanks!

Orion_vp31 · Apr 1, 2009

Yankee Airforce

Our Yankee Doodle Dandy Gallery

109ROAMING · Apr 1, 2009

Great shots guys! 8)

storm_eagle · May 1, 2009

Yugoslav airforce 71214. ex44-76888,exKN586,ex7323, Displayed at the Museum of Yugoslav Aviation

storm_eagle · May 1, 2009

United Airlines Douglas DC-3A-197 NC16070 - Evergreen Aviation Museum Oregon

evangilder · May 1, 2009

Estrella Warbird Museum just after they received their C-47. This is still in most of the IAF paint scheme.

evangilder · May 1, 2009

In October of last year, it didn't even look like the same airplane. Here it is with the restoration done by the Estrella volunteers.

evangilder · May 1, 2009

One more IAF bird, this one down at the Palm Springs Air Museum. I will be seeing this one again this weekend and will see if they have done any work on her.

Johnny Signor · May 26, 2010

Does anyone of the forum or otherwise know of what unit a WW-2 USAAF C-47 was from that was rammed by a japanese aircraft and the C-47 lost part of it's upper middle fuselage area ? I have a zerox copy of this aircraft and the tail # and any markings that could ID it are not showing due to the angle of the photo, ther is a unit emblemon the nose area just aft of cockpit, this emblem I believe to be a Troop Carrier Sqd and it is a round background with an American Indian running with a tomahawk in one raised arm, he's wearing moccasins, a breechcloth and pants and has a headband with a feather in it.

I am trying very much to find out what Group?Squadron this C-47 was from, anyone who may know PLEASE contact me at my e mail, thank you !!!!!!
WeBeEmblems@aol.com

skeeter · Jun 3, 2010

My very first plane ride was in 1958, I was seven years old at the time and lived on a farm in Kansas. We went to Wichita one Sunday. I went up with my mother in a DC-3 for a plane ride over the city. It did not last all that long but it was thrilling none the less. The thing I remember most after the fabulous view of the Arkansas River and surrounding area was my ears popping. No pressurization. What an odd sensation it was for a farm boy. One of the storied C-47s for me was one named the Argonia, which I am led to believe, took part in the Normandy Invasion.

Accompanying photo shows a model of the Argonia put out by the Franklin mint . . . I lived a mile outside of Argonia, Kansas on the farm I mentioned above.

Night Fighter Nut · Jun 10, 2010

Here something you don't see everyday... The world's largest weather vane.

ppopsie · Jun 11, 2010

I believe this was a real DC-3. My only multi engine time for just 36 min. as co-pilot. A skydiving ship at Lake Elsinore in early 1982.

Tomahawk101 · Jun 19, 2010

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