Airlifter, Gunship, Spy Plane, VIP Transport and More: It’s Important to Understand the C-47. It is a bit bumpy despite calm weather. She skids back and forth on her tail in light crosswinds and level ...

The following video shows a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (military version of the DC-3 Dakota) performing a low flyby “at a private air strip no one around for miles and there was no dogs cats are birds ...

Opened in 1931, Floyd Bennett Field briefly served as New York City’s first municipal airport before its conversion to a naval air station during World War II. Located on Jamaica Bay in southeastern ...

Whiskey 7, a historic Douglas C-47 that was a lead ship in the 1944 Normandy invasion, embarked on a 3,600-mile journey from New York to France. The aircraft is traveling to participate in the 70th ...

WWII U.S. pilot Peter Goutiere flies in his old Douglas C-47 aircraft from Seattle area to San Francisco Flight part of reunion of the famed China National Aviation Corp. The plane is owned by the ...

Eighty-two years and three days after Operation Overlord, D-Day veteran C-47 Night Fright returned to the skies wearing its wartime color scheme for the first time since the end of WWII. Piloted by ...

Russian specialists are progressing with restoration of a Douglas C-47 transport which was recovered from Siberian tundra in the country’s Taimyr region. The aircraft – bearing the registration ...

The plane was recently salvaged so that it can be displayed in a Russian museum Half-sunk in the marshy tundra of the Taymyr Peninsula of northern Siberia, not far from the Arctic Circle and several ...

The Placid Lassie flew in from its homebase in Poughkeepsie, New York, for the Wings N' Wheels event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Claire Barrett) In 1943, the Placid Lassie took to the skies for ...

We look at the C-47 aircraft as part of World War II Weekend. Watch our host, Command Sergeant Major T. S. Decker (ret.) take us inside the long-serving C-47. Stay connected to your community and take ...