The EHV was initially formed with two Douglas C-47 Skytrain and three MH. 1521M Broussard aircraft.

The fleet was initially consisted mainly of Douglas DC-3s ( There were thousands of surplus C-47 Dakotas ( the military variant of the DC-3 ) available to help airlines restart operations after the war.

* On June 1954, a C-47 ( registered OO-CBY ) was attacked by a fighter aircraft near Maribor, Yugoslavia.

The company is most famous for the " DC " (" Douglas Commercial ") series of commercial aircraft, including what is often regarded as the most significant transport aircraft ever made: the DC-3, which was also produced as a military transport known as the C-47 Skytrain or " Dakota.

On 2 May 1961, the communists overran the airfield at Moung Sing ; the following day, they captured an RLAF C-47 that landed because its crew was unaware of the communist takeover.

In another demoralizing incident, on 21 March 1968, a RLAF C-47 crew was arrested at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam for smuggling gold and opium.

The company's first C-47 was delivered 16 days after the attack of Pearl Harbor and another 4, 238 were produced during the war.

Mission Chicago was the 27th serial of the airborne assault, and was flown by the troop carrier C-47 Skytrains of the 434th Troop Carrier Group at RAF Aldermaston.

A second Royal Air Force transport group, Group No. 46, was formed and equipped solely with C-47 Dakotas, instead of the mixture of aircraft in Group No. 38.

A second Royal Air Force transport group, No. 46 Group, was formed, and was equipped solely with C-47 Dakotas, instead of the mixture of aircraft in No. 38 Group.

Only the N5117X DC-3 ( C-47 ) was able to be repaired of the damage it suffered during the hurricane and returned to service ; it had been put in the hangar at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.

The airline was founded as charter carrier Trans-Pacific Airlines by publisher Ruddy Tongg as a competitor to Hawaiian Airlines, commencing operations on July 26, 1946, with a single World War II-surplus Douglas C-47 ( DC-3 ) on a flight from Honolulu to Maui and Hilo.

As the first notable case of the now-standard use of " gunship ", in 1964, during the Vietnam War, a popular C-47 Dakota transport was successfully modified with side-firing Miniguns for circling attacks.

His C-47 was replaced by a new presidential jet, Gulfstream II, which was again damaged beyond repair in a fatal accident in the same year.

Browning was envious of the Americans ' equipment, particularly the C-47 Dakota transports.

Cochran told Wingate that cancelling the long-range mission was unnecessary ; only a limited amount of aerial transport would be needed since, in addition to the light planes and C-47 Dakotas Wingate had counted on, Cochran explained that 1st Air Commando had 150 gliders to haul supplies: Wingate ’ s dark eyes widened as Phil explained that the gliders could also move a sizable force of troops.

Two days later Colonel Harvey Berger took command and he remained with the 316th until he was killed on 3 April 1945 when his C-47 crashed south-west of Cologne.

Seventy-five 247s were built ; by contrast, Douglas collected 800 civil orders for DC-3s before the Pearl Harbor attack, and produced over 10, 000 DC-3s, including wartime production of C-47 ; while the rival Lockheed Electra " family " was eventually to reach over 3, 000 in its various civilian and military variants.

The initial USAAF use for the base was for airlift operations when the 2d Combat Cargo Group arrived with four C-47 Skytrain squadrons.

She was certified in 16 military aircraft, including the Douglas C-47 and the A-36.

The term C-47 was arrived at by using the " C " from Chuck and Monte's lucky number " 47.

The airfield was constructed in World War II and had been used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army's Eighth and Ninth Air Force as a troop carrier ( C-47 ) group base, and was assigned USAAF station No 467.

* 10 April 1957: a Transportes Aéreos Nacional Douglas DC-3 / C-47 operated by Real Transportes Aéreos registration PP-ANX, en route from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas crashed into a mountain over the location of Ubatuba.

On the night of January 25, 1962, Nutter was en route to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank when the C-47 Skytrain he was a passenger in crashed.

* 10 April 1957: a Transportes Aéreos Nacional Douglas DC-3 / C-47 registration PP-ANX operated by Real Transportes Aéreos en route from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas crashed into a mountain near Ubatuba.

They jumped from Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registered CCCP H-369.

* C-47 Skytrain from 1946 – 47

The building's famous C-47 ' Raisinbomber ' Skytrain can be seen with ease from the top of the Fernsehturm and from a descending aircraft landing at Tempelhof Airport.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

* On 17 September 1946 at 01: 47 local time, a Douglas C-47 ( registered OO-AUR ) crashed upon take-off from Haren Airfield, killing one crew member.

* Another 13 people ( ten passengers, three crew ) were killed on 31 August of that year, when their aircraft, a C-47 registered OO-UBL, crashed near Elizabethville on a flight from Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* On 27 August 1949, a Douglas C-47 ( registered OO-CBK ) experienced a loss of engine power shortly after take-off from Leopoldville Airport for a flight to Elizabethville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 17 passengers and three crew on board.

The aircraft used consisted of 105 C-47 Dakotas belonging to the 51st Troop Carrier Wing, 51 each from the 60th and the 62d Troop Carrier Groups, while the 64th Troop Carrier Group supplied the other three.

* Douglas C-47 Skytrain also known as the Dakota, a military transport developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner

Among the best known were the US Douglas C-47, Boeing B-17, North American B-25 and Lockheed P-38, and British Vickers Wellington that used a geodesic construction method, and Avro Lancaster, all revamps of original designs from the 1930s.

: 443d Troop Carrier Group: Xfer from Tenth AF ( C-47 / C-54 ) August – November 1945

The 316th Troop Carrier Group began to arrive at Cottesmore on 15 February 1944 when 52 C-47 and C-53 transports began flying in from Borizzo Afld., Sicily.

Douglas C-47 plane operated by South African Air Force crashed into Lake Victoria soon after taking off from Kisumu Airport on July 11, 1945.

During the evening, 82 C-47 Skytrains and C-53 Skytroopers flying from Sicily drop 600 paratroopers of the United States Armys 82nd Airborne Division behind Allied lines in the Salerno beachhead.

* June 27 – U. S. Air Force C-47 Skytrains and C-54 Skymasters evacuate U. S. nationals from Korea.

* December 6 – C-47 Dakotas of 13 Flight Royal Hellenic Air Force evacuate US casualties from the Chonjin Reservoir.

* December 11 – The Indian Armys 2nd Parachute Brigade parachutes from Indian Air Force Antonov An-12s, DHC-4 Caribous, C-82 Packets, and C-47 Dakotas north of Tangail, East Pakistan, prompting a disorganized retreat by the Pakistani Armys 93rd Brigade.

After spending a night hiding in a crashed marijuana smuggler's C-47 airplane, they encounter a drug lord named Juan ( Alfonso Arau ), who is a big fan of Joan's novels and who helps them escape from Zolo.

On June 6, D-Day, Beyrle's C-47 came under enemy fire over the Normandy coast, and he was forced to jump from the exceedingly low altitude of 120 meters.

The main USAAF use of Istres was by the 64th Troop Carrier Group, which operated C-47 Skytrain transports from the airfield from September to November 1944.