A C-47 carrying paratroopers built at the Douglas Aircraft Factory in Midwest City led the way in the airborne assault on the ...

The C-46 Commando by Curtiss-Wright during World War II, was an aircraft that looked ahead of its time. The aircraft was ...

Despite being 81 years old the C-47 Douglas Dakota takes flight roughly 50 times a year and continues to be a big draw at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum for its role on D-Day, and afterward as ...

These were transports, Douglas C-47 Skytrains (or Dakotas) and C-53 Skytroopers, carrying elite paratroopers on a mission to seize objectives ahead of the seaborne landings. The lead plane of this ...

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven aircraft, and one that was introduced ... Most notably, the C-47 played a huge role in ...

It’s a quick trip to the ground jumping out of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain with a vintage-style parachute. Unlike commercial ...

Douglas C-47 was decommissioned and left in the tundra after the crash in 1947 MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. Back in 2007, historian Vyacheslav Filippov was shocked to see a picture of an aircraft amid ...

Today, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord AKA D'Day, the Allied invasion of Western Europe that ...

Two weeks before the largest amphibious invasion in military history was launched on D-Day, the U.S. military coordinated an ...

Plus: Factory workers in Midwest City played a role in D-Day invasion; OK Republicans want voters to reword Constitution ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on Sunday (May 19), bringing to light similar incidents, where leaders were killed while in office. Since 1936, 27 heads of state and ...

Eighty years ago, a Spitfire Mk IX fighter plane, now part of the collection of warbirds at the Dakota Territory Air Museum ...