75 years operation Market Garden highlight: paratroopers boarding their transport to the Ginkelse Heide drop zone.

Largest aircraft to ever land at Compton Abbas, to my knowledge.

Registration cancelled in 2014.

Now a warbird and participated in the D-Day cerebrations in 2019.

Registration cancelled 2003

Operated by Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications (CNET) as 13142 / F-SEBD since 1964, until transferred to Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis (AJBS) on 24 May 1980. In 1981 it was allocated registration F-BLOZ, but this was not taken up. In the mid 1980s it became a static exhibit at La Ferté-Alais, and in 1989 it was used in the movie "Suivez Cet Avion", painted with "Honeymoon Airways" titles. In the 1990s the C-47 was painted in USAAF markings with various fake serials, first 315111, then 315101 and finally as seen here, as 313142 (based on the c/n). In 2015 a new restoration project was started for this aircraft.

Parked / preserved at Vantaa. [Nikon D300 + Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm/2,8G VR + TC 17 EII]

Reregistered N303SF in 1985.

Last reported preserved at Kalamazoo Air Zoo, Portage, MI. [Still valid 2019]

To the PNG register as P2-MMA in 1974. Reregistered P2-ANS in 1975. Sold in Australia as VH-MWQ in June 1976. Restored to VH-MMA November 1983. Preserved at Darwin.

Undergoing maintenance in one of Lossie's hangars. The aircraft wears the markings of the "87th Troop Carrier Squadron".

Fictitious markings, is actually ex USAAF 42-93251, F-BAXG and F-BLOZ (not taken up).

To the Papua new Guinea register in 1974 as P2-SBG, reregistered P2-ANP in November 1974. Returned to the Australian register in 1982 (VH-BPL)

Initially delivered to RAF in 1943 as Dakota III KG436; Then to USAF in 1946 as 42-92647. Became civilian in Ireland as EI-ALT & EI-ACT; Sold to French Navy in 1961 and Wfu in 1982. Preserved and stored now in Paris Le Bourget Musée de l'air.

Served initially for USAAF as 42-24211 and participated to D-Day in Normandy with 48 Sqn / 313 TCG. Sold to Aigle Azur as F-BEFA and to Royal Air Maroc in 1957. Became later N54607 & G-BPMP. Finaly reduced to spares and scrapped in 1995. Taken by a member of my family in 1961.

Registration cancelled prior to 1990.