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unusual facts about Douglas C-74 Globemaster


Douglas C-74 Globemaster

They were attached to the 554th AAF Base Unit located at Memphis Municipal Airport, Tennessee.


1951 Ringway Dakota accident

On 27 March 1951 a Douglas Dakota 3 cargo aircraft registered G-AJVZ operated by Air Transport Charter en route from Ringway Airport, Manchester, England, to Nutts Corner Airport, Antrim, Northern Ireland, crashed shortly after take-off following the failure of the aircraft to gain height.

1974 Togo plane crash

The 1974 Togo plane crash refers to an incident on 24 January 1974, when a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain:5V-MAG carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo.

2012 SAAF Dakota crash

The 2012 SAAF Dakota crash occurred on 5 December 2012 when a Douglas C-47TP of the South African Air Force crashed in the Drakensburg Mountains, KwaZulu Natal, killing all eleven people on board.

Biju Patnaik

He flew to Java and brought Sultan Sjahrir aboard from Java islands on 22 July 1947 using a Dakota and reached India via Singapore on 24 July.

Broome International Airport

On 21 January 1974, Douglas C-47A PK-GDC of the Burmah Oil Co was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident.

Catalina affair

The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas DC-3, carrying out radio and radar signals intelligence-gathering for the National Defence Radio Establishment.

Dakota Territory Air Museum

The museum collection includes a Lockheed T-33 jet trainer, Douglas C-47, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Aero L-29 Delfín Soviet jet trainer, the oldest Stolp Starduster biplane in the world and many other civilian airplanes.

Donald Gets Drafted

While the unit is marched around the field by the drill sergeant (Pete), Donald is distracted by Douglas C-47 Skytrains flying overhead, reminding him that he would rather be flying.

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster

This aircraft had been at the Strategic Air and Space Museum at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska for many years and was donated to the AMC Museum when the SAS Museum moved in the late 1990s to its new location.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

:Gunship aircraft with three side-firing .30 in (7.62 mm) Minigun machine guns

Douglas C. Bennett

Earlham College, during Bennett's tenure, gained national media attention when political analyst and Fox News commentator William Kristol, was hit with an ice cream pie by a student while giving a speech on foreign policy in March 2005.

Bennett has become known throughout the state of Indiana for dismissing the majority of the board of directors of Conner Prairie in June 2003, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Earlham College.

Evansville Regional Airport

On December 13, 1977, Douglas C-53 N51071 of National Jet Services crashed on take-off from Evansville on a non-scheduled passenger flight to Nashville Metropolitan Airport, Tennessee.

Frederick Alan Aikman

After recuperation in Canada, Aikman was retrained to fly Dakotas and reposted overseas on 27 September 1944.

Linz Airport

On 8 January 1968, Douglas C-47B YU-ABK of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport was operating an international scheduled cargo flight from Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany to Pleso Airport, Zagreb, Yugoslavia when a fire developed in one of the engines.

M22 Locust

The prototype was designated the Light Tank T9 (Airborne), and was designed so that it could be transported underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although its dimensions also allowed it to fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider.

Michael Stal

Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - Patterns for Cuncurrent and Networked Objects, Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0-471-60695-2

Mont Pilat

On 1 November 1944 a U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed due to bad weather carrying five crew members, army nurse lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz and fifteen wounded of whom some were German prisoners.

Operation Most III

A Dakota of No. 267 Squadron RAF flew from Brindisi, and landed at an Armia Krajowa outpost codenamed Motyl (butterfly), which was in a village near Jadowniki Mokre.

PAF Base Lahore

In 1950, a transport squadron consisting of Dakotas and Bristol Freighters moved into the base from Peshawar before eventually relocating to Chaklala in 1960.

Palmietfontein Airport

On 15 September 1952, a South African Airways Douglas C-47A-30-DL(DC-3) ZS-AVI with 19 occupants was written off when they landed at Carolina after becoming lost on a flight from Livingstone, Zambia to Palmietfontein.

Rimouski Airport

On 29 May 1973, Douglas C-47A CF-QBB of Air Gaspé crashed on approach, killing all four people on board.

Stowting

In 1947, a Douglas C-47A crashed on the hillside above the village, killing eight of the 16 people on board.

Ta'izz International Airport

On 19 March 1969, Douglas C-47 4W-AAS of Yemen Airlines crashed shortly after take-off due to an incorrectly assembled elevator trim tab which operated in the opposite manner to normal.

Tachikawa air disaster

The Tachikawa air disaster occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953 when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.

Whiteman Air Force Base

Pilots flew C-46 or C-47 transports and several types of cargo and personnel gliders, usually the Waco CG-4A.


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