Airworthy Skytrain inside the hangar at Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. "Tico Belle" was taken on charge by the USAAF in 1943 with s/n 42-100591. It is a veteran of D-Day, assigned to 437th Troop Carrier Group that towed a Waco CG-4A glider with 82nd Airborne paratroopers. It took part in Op Dragoon, Op Market Garden and Op Varsity. The aircraft took part in the Berlin Airlift before it was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Air Force in 1950 and then to the Royal Danish Air Force in Aug 1956, where it was used as a VIP transport. Acquired in 1982, it is the flagship of the museum.

A D-Day veteran having joined the USAAF as 42-100591, transferred to the R Norwegian AF post-war and then the R Danish AF as K-684. Acquired by the VAC in 1983, it was badly damaged in a landing here at Tico in 2001 and repaired by 2009 using major parts from C-47 45-0972/N8040L

One of the original D-Day birds and still going strong. The aircraft operated in several wartime missions after D-Day, including Dragoon (France, July 1944), Market Garden (Netherlands, September 1944), Relief of Bastogne (Belgium, December 1944) and Varsity (Germany, March 1945). She participated in the Berlin Airlift before entering service with the Norwegian Air Force and later the Danish Air Force. After operating as VIP aircraft for the Danish Air force, she returned to the USA (and the Valiant Air Command) in 1988.