Flying in a 1939 Douglas DC-3 Dakota over the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum this afternoon. What an experience! More photos and video to come.
www.warplane.com/pages/aircraft_dakota.html
CWH’s Dakota proudly wears the colours of 436 Squadron, whose slogan was ‘Canucks Unlimited’. This aeroplane (C-GDAK) was built in June 1939 and, in 1990, was the C-47 with the second highest total of airtime of all operational Dakotas logging over 82,000 hours of air time and 12 million miles.
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Neat-o!!! I was thinking of you Saturday; what a gorgeous day to fly!
It was! It’s a good thing I got up relatively early, because they bumped the flight schedule forward!
Cool shots. It would be a grand experience to fly in such a historic airplane.
What wonder!
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