Douglas C-53 Skytrooper "D-Day Doll" Start-Up, Taxi, Takeoff, On-Board Footage & Landing (DC-3/C-47)

Описание: 04-08-23 My Friend Wayne Frank & I flew once again in this Very Historic Douglas C-53 (DC-3) This exact C-53 is a WWII Veteran that actually flew in Normandy. Check them out for flights in this remarkable and historic aircraft. at https://www.inlandempirecaf.com/
This Flight was the "Riverside Airport Poppy Flight Experience" so watch for the mountain sides of poppy's. A huge thank you to the CAF Crew and it was really great talking to them again and making this another great flight experience of a lifetime.
The Commemorative Air Force Inland Empire Wing’s WWII C-53D “Skytrooper” D-Day Doll participated in one of the most important battles to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany including the Normandy Invasion, Operation Market-Garden, Operation Varsity and in the dropping of supplies to surrounded U.S. troops in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.
It was built at the Douglas factory in Santa Monica, California. It is one of 159 C-53Ds and was delivered to AAF on July 7, 1943. It was assigned to the 434th Troop Carrier Group and was stationed at various locations (Alliance Field, NE, Baer Field, IN, Fullbeck, UK, and Welford Park, UK) before arriving at Royal Air Force (RAF) Aldermaston, UK in march 1944.
The 434th TCG consisted of HQ and the 71st to 74th Squadrons. Aircraft 830 was assigned to the 72nd Squadron (CU).
The group's D-Day mission was to tow gliders carrying reinforcements to 101st Division troops who had been dropped earlier in the night near Utah Beach.
At 0119, June 6, 1944, 52 of the Group's airplanes, each towing a Waco glider, took off from RAF Aldermaston Airfield for Normandy. Aircraft 830 flew three missions on D-Day and the next day.
While in the ETO it participated in the D-Day invasion, Operation Market Garden in Holland, the re-supply of Bastogne, and the crossing of the Rhine.
It also flew various support missions and wounded evacuations to England.