- 1945, the
Oklahoma City
plant produced 5,354 C-47s. The
specialized C-53
Skytrooper troop transport started production in
October 1941 at
Douglas Aircraft's...
- conversion, (N300TX), was on July 29, 1982.
Douglas C-47
Skytrain and C-53
Skytrooper Production military DC-3A variants.
Showa and
Nakajima L2D Developments...
-
surviving Douglas C-47
Skytrain and
variant aircraft,
including the C-53
Skytrooper, C-117 and R4D.
Airworthy 43-49533. LV-BEH, C-47B-15-DK c/n 15349/26794...
-
Barber The plot of
Broken Journey closely approximated the 1946 C-53
Skytrooper crash on the
Gauli Glacier,
Switzerland in
November 1946. The improvised...
- Air
Force for
their successful sighting. On 18
November 1946 the C-53
Skytrooper military transport aircraft, (serial no. 42-68846) – a military, p****enger-only...
-
Retrieved 9
November 2020. Wise, E.
Tayloe (2004).
Eleven Bravo: A
Skytrooper's Memoir of War in Vietnam. McFarland. p. 59. ISBN 0-7864-1916-4. Archived...
- 97th TCS & 98th TCS, with over 70
Douglas C-47 Skytrain/Douglas C-53
Skytrooper aircraft.
There were
insufficient hardstandings to
accommodate all the...
- of
which had to be of a
paratroop configuration,
representing the C-53
Skytrooper variant. A
Douglas C-47 DL
Skytrain featured in the
climactic scenes of...
- area of 17.7 km2 (6.8 sq mi). The
glacier is
famous for the 1946 C-53
Skytrooper crash on the
Gauli Glacier and the
following rescue mission,
which was...
- the sky Smokejumper, a
firefighter who
drops from the sky
Douglas C-53
Skytrooper, a
troop transport airplane also used for
airborne deployment Sky Trooper...
