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5th June 2019., Duxford Aerodrome, United Kingdom
Just one of the many DC-3's assembled at the airfield to commemorate the D-Day landings over the Normandy beaches on the 6th June 1944
This classic line up at Rand are the Skyclass Aviation DC-4s ZS-AUB & ZS-BMH and DC-3 ZS-BXF
Rand 13/9/2016
N74589 Douglas C-47A Skytrain (DC-3) 224064 'Placid Lassie' taxiing at North Weald Airfield after participating in the 'D-Day 80' event. Built in 1943 it was originally assigned to the United States Army Air Force it, then transferred over to the US Navy. It then gained its civil aviation registration N74589 in July 1949 joining Babb Co. Inc.
The colour version of my previous posting
A high-contrast colour image of the propeller and part of the wing of a Douglas "Dakota" C47
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Landing during the BBMF 50th anniversary event at Duxford. Spitfire IX MK356 is holding short of the main runway.
Douglas C-47A Skytrain
Venezuelan Air Force / Fuerza Aérea Venezolana
Museo Aeronáutico de Maracay
Maracay 28/10/2014
Displayed at Camp Blanding wearing number 100597 this Douglas C-47H is really an R4D-5 with US Navy number 12436.
Sitting outside Cathay Pacific's headquarters, "Nikki" - VR-HDA, the replica of the second aircraft of Cathay Pacific in their early days.
This gorgeous Dc3 was purchased from the Philippines and painted into the colours of Cathay Pacific's 2nd ever Dc3, and unfortunately no-one knows the whereabouts of the real 'Niki'.
Came across this folder from March 2013 trip to Hong Kong!
The DC-3 was the most built and dominant American commercial aircraft of the 1930s to 1950s. It played a significant role on the road to mass aviation. It also handled the military transports of the Allies during World War II. As a military aircraft, the machine served a variety of purposes - from troop transporters to flying hospitals. After the end of the war, she was deployed to Berlin in 1947/48 to set up the Berliner Luftbrücke.
The aircraft retired after the war formed the foundation of many post-war airlines and were partly flown for decades.
The first Federal Air Force transporters also came from the retired C-47 stocks of the American Air Force. The aircraft on display in version C-47D was built in 1943 as a military aircraft in the USA and was first used by the British Royal Air Force, then until 1967 as a travel and transport aircraft with the Federal German Air Force. It was then used as a survey aircraft for military air traffic control and radio navigation systems until 1976.
Douglas DC-3, Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engine:
“The DC series of aircraft was developed in response to the challenge posed by the Boeing 247 and culminated in the magnificent DC-3, the most successful air transport of all time. The DC-3 met with immediate enthusiasm as the first airliner in the United States able to work at a profit without government subsidy. By 1939 the DC-3 accounted for 90% of world airline trade. Almost indestructible, large numbers of DC-3s continued to fly in the 1990s, carrying passengers and cargo.
The DC-3 came into being almost by default. Douglas built a larger version of the DC-2 to contain berths for night flights. The result, called the Douglas Sleeper Transport, had a longer, wider fuselage. The DST was a limited success, but when its big fuselage was filled with passenger seats instead of berths, the DC-3 was born. A combined total of about 3000 DC-3s were built under licence in Japan and Russia.
This particular DC-3, a donation from Goodyear Corporation, was manufactured in 1942 by Douglas Aircraft Company Incorporated. It was completed as a DC-3 airliner after to the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and later served with the U.S. Army Air Forces as a C-49J. In 1945, it was sold to Trans-Canada Air Lines, becoming the first DC-3 operated by that airline.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company bought the aircraft in 1948 and refinished it for VIP transportation - including outfitting it with Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engines. It served with Goodyear until 1983, when the company donated it to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.”
Source: ingeniumcanada.org/aviation/collection-research/artifact-...
5th June 2019., Duxford Aerodrome, United Kingdom
Just some of the many DC-3's assembled at the airfield to commemorate the D-Day landings over the Normandy beaches on the 6th June 1944
Former airbase, Zeljava (2015) - Croatia
Douglas C-47B Dakota, 71212 Yugoslav Air Force.
Former USAAF 42-76592 and Royal Air Force KN453.
For many years, 2 Yugoslav Air Force F-84 Thunderjets
were located direct next to this C-47 Dakota.
These 2 jets moved to Otocac recently.
The Dakota may also move to Otocac in the near future.
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Douglas C-117D
US Navy
Solheimasandur 21/5/2023
This aircraft has been here since it crashed on 21/11/1973.
The accident happened when the aircraft was flying from Hofn Hornafjördur Airport to Naval Air Station Keflavik, after delivering supplies for the radar station at Stokksnes. En-route the aircraft encountered severe icing and the crew were forced to land on a frozen river at Sólheimasandur. All 7 crew members survived and were rescued by helicopter.
Prompt: Create a digital fine art painting while preserving all original composition, aircraft identities, troop positions, insignia, markings, scale, and perspective. Depict a night airborne operation featuring multiple Douglas DC-3 military troop transport aircraft flying in formation through dense storm clouds, with paratroopers actively jumping and descending under round parachutes. Maintain the wide, cinematic horizontal framing and camera distance of the Base, with a sweeping aerial viewpoint and strong sense of depth. Enhance realism through ultra-detailed surface textures on the aircraft fuselages, wings, engines, and rivets, accurate WWII-era paint schemes, and authentic lighting behavior. Use dramatic moonlit and cloud-reflected illumination, warm cabin lights, and subtle navigation lights, all physically consistent with the night sky. Increase atmospheric depth with volumetric clouds, mist, and light scattering, but introduce no noise, grain, blur, film artifacts, or stylistic filters. The final result should read as an ultra-realistic digital fine art painting, cinematic and historically grounded, rendered at 4K resolution, razor sharp, clean, and artifact-free, matching the Base image’s aspect ratio exactly and producing one single finished image.
This digital fine art was created using OpenAI Sora AI and Photoshop
Tried something different with this shot of C-47, "That's all, Brother" from the DC-3 D-Day event at Duxford in 2019.
LN-WND Douglas DC-3 Dakota of Dakota Norway making an emergency landing after a left hand engine failure at Duxford during the Daks over Duxford D-Day 75th Anniversary event 4/6/19