We are delighted to announce 2 more of the Aero Legends fleet to the line up. The C47 Skytrains! The C47 is famous for the it role it played during the second world war, particularly during D-Day operations. The C47 also had a civilian version of the airframe called the DC3 Dakota. The C47s & DC3s were so successful, some are still in use today delivering cargo to remote areas of the world.

Aero Legends are pleased to announce the following aircraft to our flying list:
C47 Skytrain
C47 DAKOTA ‘DRAG ‘EM OOT’
‘Drag ’em Oot’, a 1944 C-47 Douglas Skytrain. This Douglas C-47 c/n 19345, was delivered to the United States Army Air Force on 28 December 1943 and had serial 42-100882 assigned. She joined operations with 87th Troop Carrier Squadron based at Greenham Common in England equipped as glider pick up, her crew named her Drag ’em Oot (slang for ‘Drag Them Out’). She participated in the air assault during D-Day when at 00:46 on 06 June 1944 she dropped 18 paratroopers of the US 82nd Airborne Division just behind the Normandy beach heads, near St. Mere Église. She returned safe to the UK and after a second mission that very same day, she started to resupply the troops in France.
C47 Dakota ‘Pegasus’
It was from the Douglas plant in Oklahoma City that serial 44-77104 emerged in 1945.Taken on strength initially by the AAF, a few days later it was handed over to the RAF in Montreal, thus becoming a Dakota IV with serial KP220. Once ferried to the UK, it joined No 435 Squadron, RCAF at Down Ampney, moving to Croydon that December for operation by the air officer commanding No 46 Group. With No 24 Squadron at Bassingbourn from March 1947, KP220 flew on the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift.