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

January 5, 2021 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 […]

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

March 16, 2020 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 WarbirdsNews 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 […]

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

October 8, 2018 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 […]

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Vintage Wings’ Douglas C-53 Skytrooper – Restoration Update

March 15, 2018 WarbirdsNews 0

Over the past two years, WarbirdsNews has been reporting HERE 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 […]

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Restore the Roar – Help Get a WWII Veteran C-53 Skytrooper Back in the Air!

October 10, 2017 Editor 0

Back in May, 2016, WarbirdsNews published a story HERE about Jason Capra and his efforts to save a forlorn WWII-veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095 that he found sitting, more or less abandoned, at a grass […]

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‘Beach City Baby’ – A C-53 Skytrooper Will Rise Again

May 17, 2016 Editor 3

“A dream is deserving of nothing less than 110%.” It’s a simple line that Jason Capra, president and founder of Vintage Wings Inc., lives by. If you’ve not heard of Vintage Wings Inc. yet, that shouldn’t really be […]

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Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow Update

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With the air show world sensing a much-hoped-for return to normalcy beginning to arrive, the legendary biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow in Wanaka, New Zealand is already making plans for their event over the […]

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Fagen Fighters’ Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver – Restoration Update – April, 2021

With the recent arrival of their freshly restored Grumman Hellcat, which we reported on a couple of days ago, comes news from the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum about progress with their ultra-rare Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver Bu.83393. [...]
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