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    The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively...
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    List of C-47 Skytrain operators includes the country, military service, known squadrons, and related data. The Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport...
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  • 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...
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    Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport...
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    plane. Related development Basler BT-67 Douglas AC-47 Spooky Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas R4D-8/C-117D Douglas DC-2 Lisunov Li-2 Showa/Nakajima L2D Conroy...
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    On March 17, 1957, a C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft crashed on the slopes of Mount Manunggal on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. The crash killed...
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    machine guns 32 × Mk 24 flares Pylon turn Related development Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas DC-3 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Fairchild...
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    Force, and the C-9B Skytrain II for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The final flight of the C-9A Nightingale was in September 2005, and the C-9C was retired...
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    US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Iceland Crash. Related development Basler BT-67 Douglas AC-47 Spooky Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas DC-2 Douglas DC-3 Lisunov...
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    The Douglas XCG-17 was an American assault glider, developed by the conversion of a C-47 Skytrain twin-engine transport during World War II. Although...
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  • and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2. Military accidents...
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  • Albatross or gooney bird Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Gooney Bird, a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner Gooney Bird...
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  • States Soekarno–Hatta Airport Skytrain, a people mover at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Indonesia Douglas C-47 Skytrain also known as the Dakota,...
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  • The Gremlin Special was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain that crashed during a sightseeing flight over the Baliem Valley (also known as Shangri-La valley) in New...
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    The 1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, commonly known as the Sólheimasandur Crash, is a crashed US Navy Douglas C-117D located in Sólheimasandur [is]...
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  • known as the C-47 Skytrain or "Dakota" in British service. Many Douglas aircraft have long service lives. During World War II, Douglas joined the BVD...
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    That's All, Brother (category Douglas DC-3)
    That's All, Brother is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft (the military version of the civilian DC-3) that led the formation of 800 others from which approximately...
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    On 24 January 1974, a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village...
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    R5C. The C-46 filled similar roles as its Douglas-built counterpart, the C-47 Skytrain, with some 3,200 C-46s produced to approximately 10,200 C-47s. After...
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  • involving the Douglas DC-3A that have taken place since 1 January 2000, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Basler...
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    first people to parachute onto the North Pole. They jumped from a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registered CCCP H-369. On 3 May 1952, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant...
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    Macchi C.202 fighter, a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft and an American Douglas C-47 Skytrain. After the war, Curdes flew Douglas C-54 Skymasters...
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  • C47 (redirect from C 47)
    C47 or C-47 may refer to: C47 road (Namibia) Caldwell 47, a globular cluster A clothespin used in filmmaking Douglas C-47 Skytrain, an American military...
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    in the Berlin Airlift, foremost the four-engined Douglas C-54 Skymaster and the Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Marshall Plan History of Berlin Cherny, Andrei....
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    dummies representing US soldiers, a jeep and a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft Entryway to a Douglas C-47 Skytrain https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2...
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    fat shaming against her unacceptable. On her seventh birthday, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain once owned by her great-grandfather, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld...
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  • aircraft to secure the cargo market to and from Miami. The airline's first Douglas C-47 arrived in October 1946 and departed from Las Playas Airport in Medellín...
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  • August 6 – In the 1961 Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain crash, a Malév Douglas C-47 crashed into an apartment building in Zugló, Budapest...
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  • the first scheduled destination served was Cairo via Asmara using Douglas C-47 Skytrain equipment. The airline's hub is located at Addis Ababa Bole International...
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    which did not have to land. The snatching aircraft, typically a Douglas C-47 Skytrain ("Dakota"), had a 20 ft (6 m) arm hanging down at a 45-degree angle...
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