Douglas C-47 (Dakota) of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, out in the open air and undertaking an engine run at Imperial War Museum Duxford #ww2 #ww2history #C47 #c47dakota #c47skytrain | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Checkout the cockpit of this WW2 Dakota C47 aircraft! 🤠🇦🇺 It’s a Warbird that’s saw action in the pacific, it was also the first plane to fly out of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy back in 1974! | The Travelling Jackaroo

Douglas C-47 Skytrain 🛩 Perhaps no aircraft of World War II has been as durable or long-lived as the C-47 Skytrain. Utilizing Douglas Aircraft Company’s DC-3 civilian airliner airframe, it remains one of the most successful aircraft ever built. The DC-3 was the first aircraft to make civilian passenger travel reliable and profitable with the C-47 proving equally trustworthy in military service. A twin-engine, low-winged monoplane, the airframe included a light, all-metal alloy construction with