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Florida Air Cargo – Where Douglas DC-3s Still Work for a Living

March 2, 2023 Vintage Aviation News 6

by Moreno Aguiari & Richard Mallory Allnutt If there were ever a need to prove the longevity and resilience of the Douglas DC-3/C-47, one could easily find ample proof at Florida Air Cargo, which operates three […]

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CAF Highland Lakes Squadron – Douglas Dakota “Texas Zephyr” Arriving Home Soon!

August 30, 2022 Vintage Aviation News 0

Back in November 2019, we published a story about the Commemorative Air Force’s Highland Lakes Squadron having received an incredibly generous gift from one of their supporters, Karl Ritter of Brady, Texas. Ritter donated his Douglas Dakota Mk.IV […]

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Today in Aviation History: Last Operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain Was Retired

June 30, 2022 Vintage Aviation News 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On June 30, 1975, the last operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport in service with the United States Air Force, 43-49507, was retired and flown to the […]

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June 26, 1948 – The First Day of The Berlin Airlift

June 26, 2021 Vintage Aviation News 1

At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The United States, United […]

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American Airpower Museum’s C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience Returns

June 8, 2021 Vintage Aviation News 0

On Saturday, June 12, 2021, the American Airpower Museum’s  will resume their Living History Flight Experience program in their WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain “Second Chance” to celebrate the start of summer and a return to […]

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DC-3 Christmas Lights Flights Are a Texas Christmas Tradition

December 21, 2020 Vintage Aviation News 0

Story and Photos by Gary Daniels The writer of the popular Christmas poem, “T’was The Night Before Christmas,” describes his awe as ‘ol St. Nick descends from the night sky and arrives “with such a […]

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The Anniversary Of The Legend Of The Skies

December 17, 2020 Vintage Aviation News 0

December 17, 2020 From an original article by Larry Merritt for Boeing Frontiers Online, adapted by Jason Capra of Vintage Wings. and our staff. 85 years ago today, one of aviation’s best-known and most-loved airplanes […]

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D-Day Squadron Officially Launches the DC-3 Society

September 21, 2020 Vintage Aviation News 0

PRESS RELEASE – Days shy of flying the Arsenal of Democracy in Washington, D.C., the D-Day Squadron officially launches its well awaited DC-3 Society. Having met each flyover mission, outreach event, airshow performance and display […]

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D-Day Squadron – Documentary Announcement

September 18, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As everybody will know by now, the D-Day Squadron pulled off a remarkable feat this past summer by organizing and executing the safe and successful transatlantic journey of fifteen historic Douglas transports to take part […]

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Phillips 66 Joins Effort to Commemorate D-Day

April 22, 2019 Vintage Aviation News 0

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, Phillips 66® Aviation and Phillips 66® Lubricants are proud to support the “Miss Montana to Normandy” mission to fly a historic C-47 warbird in […]

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Highly Authentic Harvard Flies in New Zealand

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Bevan Dewes’ immaculately restored, former Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvard Mk.IIa (NZ1044) landed at its new home in Masterton, New Zealand on March 19th, 2023 following a three-year rebuild effort with Twenty24 Ltd, at Wanaka. […]

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Highly Authentic Harvard Flies in New Zealand

Bevan Dewes’ immaculately restored, former Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvard Mk.IIa (NZ1044) landed at its new home in Masterton, New Zealand on March 19th, 2023 following a three-year rebuild effort with Twenty24 Ltd, at Wanaka. [...]
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