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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A powerful piece of history touched down in the “Air Capital of the World” this weekend. Visitors at the Kansas Aviation Museum got a close-up look at a restored C-47 aircraft ...

(WBIR - Knoxville) For more than 20 years, Stan Brock has taken to the skies from the Downtown Island Airport in Knoxville in an old Douglas C-47 aircraft. Brock and other volunteers with the group ...

On June 6, 2024-exactly 80 years after D-Day-personnel from Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, dismantled a World War II–veteran Douglas C-47 at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry in ...

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The Air Mobility Command Museum on Dover Air Force Base houses a C-47 airplane. Museum operations manager Michael Hurlburt gives a tour of the plane.

I just received a copy of the May 19, 2006, article regarding the C-47 plane crash that occurred in Billings on Dec. 5, 1945, from my nephew. It brought back some very vivid memories to me even though ...

In 1943, the Placid Lassie took to the skies for the U.S. Army Air Forces, and since that date, it has never stopped. But this C-47 is not just a Frankenstein-esque hull of itself. It is not a replica ...