Add to ORKGFew aircraft are as well known or were so widely used for so long as the C-47 Skytrain. Nicknamed “Gooney Bird,” the aircraft was adapted from the DC-3 commercial airliner which first appeared in 1936. The first C-47s were ordered in 1940 and by the end of WWII over 10,000 had been procured for the U.S. Army Air Force and U.S. Navy. They carried personnel and cargo, and in a combat role, towed troop-carrying gliders and dropped paratroops into enemy territory.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nasfl/1420/thumbnail.jp
A twin-propeller airplane used to transport smokejumpers.https://dc.ewu.edu/derry/1049/thumbnail.jp
Black and white photograph of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota), a military transport aircraft
Sketch shows soldiers and officers in a C-47 transport airplane flying in the South Pacific from the...
The Grumman G-21 Goose is an amphibious flying boat designed by Grumman to serve as an eight-seat c...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit,...
Photograph shows an in flight view of a Douglas C-47 Air Evacuation transport used during World War ...
Title continues: ... Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
The C-17 Globemaster III is a long-range cargo/transport aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force sin...
PT-19 Fairchild Training aircraft line up on the runway at curtiss Steinberg Airport with flying cad...
From 1956 until 1960, the Air Force\u27s Tactical Air Command (TAC) fielded a team of four C-130 Her...
A man standing next to a World War II era bomber named the "Curly Bird," writing on the plane reads:...
Eddie Connellan's first aircraft. Percival Gulls - G-ACUP was flown to Australia by Jim Broadbent. A...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
A twin-propeller airplane used to transport smokejumpers.https://dc.ewu.edu/derry/1049/thumbnail.jp
Black and white photograph of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota), a military transport aircraft
Sketch shows soldiers and officers in a C-47 transport airplane flying in the South Pacific from the...
The Grumman G-21 Goose is an amphibious flying boat designed by Grumman to serve as an eight-seat c...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit,...
Photograph shows an in flight view of a Douglas C-47 Air Evacuation transport used during World War ...
Title continues: ... Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
The C-17 Globemaster III is a long-range cargo/transport aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force sin...
PT-19 Fairchild Training aircraft line up on the runway at curtiss Steinberg Airport with flying cad...
From 1956 until 1960, the Air Force\u27s Tactical Air Command (TAC) fielded a team of four C-130 Her...
A man standing next to a World War II era bomber named the "Curly Bird," writing on the plane reads:...
Eddie Connellan's first aircraft. Percival Gulls - G-ACUP was flown to Australia by Jim Broadbent. A...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, ...
A twin-propeller airplane used to transport smokejumpers.https://dc.ewu.edu/derry/1049/thumbnail.jp
Black and white photograph of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota), a military transport aircraft
Sketch shows soldiers and officers in a C-47 transport airplane flying in the South Pacific from the...