DC-3s Taking Off at Waterbury-Oxford Airport 2019 D-Day Commemoration

[@clovisgrinda5299]

I really liked this. :)

[@alankordzikowski7670]

Just an FYI, five of these planes will be at Oxford airport on Thursday and Friday May 16-17 2024 preparing for the 80th anniversary of DDay and heading to Europe. Public day is May 16 starting at 10am, going to 4pm.

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[@dbeney2280]

thanks. I do not post much.

[@ditzydoo4378]

The aircraft at time mark 0:38 tail number 348608 with the yellow cockpit Id letters "CD" is "Betsy's Biscuit Bomber", a C-47B built in 1943. It was flown from Paso Robles California, the aircraft is part of the Estrella Warbirds Museum collection there at the old WWII Estrella Army Air Corp base outside of Paso Robles California. This aircraft's last U.S. missions were flying the Berlin Airlift, it was sold to Israel and was later purchased back from the Israeli Air Force and refurbished, there is an Israeli language sign painted on the interior head-door that roughly reads, "The only replacement for a Dakota, is another Dakota". The plane was a military transport it's whole life and never converted for civilian us. It still has all of it's original equipment to include the 1943 over-sized desert type air-scoops atop the engines nacelles and the gear it used for towing combat gliders at Arnim.