#43-15087

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Douglas C-47 N150D USAAF 41-18401 315087 Rendezvous with Destiny by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Douglas C-47 N150D USAAF 41-18401 315087 Rendezvous with Destiny This aircraft was built in 1941 by Douglas at Long Beach California USA and during its military career it has served with USAAF s/n 41-1840 1Aircraft sean in the photo is painted as 43-15087 Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2022 BAI_8306

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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain ‘315087 / 9X-P’ (N150D) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 4463 Built 1942 for the US Military with the serial 41-18401 but operated first by Pan American Airways and then with the African Middle East Wing of Air Transport Command (ATC). Postwar she joined the French Air Force as ‘118401’ but in 1967 she became ‘032 / 4X-FNX’ with the Israeli Defence Force and remained in their service until 1999. Civil registered as ‘N155JM’ she then returned to the USA and was reregistered as N150D. She is now painted to represent 43-15087, a C-47A which flew paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Divison during D-Day. She was one of several ‘Daks’ to fly to Europe from the United States in 2019 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. She is seen landing at Old Warden as one of seven which visited for the Shuttleworth Collections ‘D-Day Anniversary Airshow’, held the following day. Old Warden Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, UK 1st June 2019

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Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton, CO 3rd Btn., 506 PIR, 101st Airborne (KIA June 6, 1944) and 1/Lt. Alex Bobuck jumpmaster of Stick#1 (POW June 6 until June 8, 1944). Col. Wolverton is checking the kit of 1/Lt. Bobuck as part of events staged on the afternoon of Sunday June 4, 1944 for filming by the Signal Corps at Exeter airfield.

The aircraft is a Douglas C-47 #43-15087 "Lady Lillian", Stick#2, piloted by Capt. Matt J. Luoma of the 95th Troop Carrier Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier Group.

A cruel twist of fate meant Lt/ Col Wolverton's feet never touched French soil. 

The commanding officer of 3rd Bn 506th PIR, was killed suspended by his parachute from an apple tree in an orchard just north of the hamlet of St Côme du Mont. 

On D-Day 1/Lt Alex Bobuck was the first one to jump off Lt. Col. Wolverton's plane but was captured when he landed on a German Command Post roof, he was liberated on June 8 by the advancing forces on St.Come-du-Mont.  © IWM (UPL 28450)

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Десантники из 101-й воздушно-десантной дивизии США получают последние инструкции перед посадкой в самолет С-47 «Скайтрейн» (б/н 43-15087), пилотируемый капитаном Мэттом Луома (Capt. Matt J. Luoma). Великобритания, 1944 год https://www.instagram.com/military_technics/p/BvQKK9wAVhs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gtx0u25dt77z

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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain ‘315087 / 9X-P’ (N150D) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 4463 Built 1942 for the US Military with the serial 41-18401 but operated first by Pan American Airways and then with the African Middle East Wing of Air Transport Command (ATC). Postwar she joined the French Air Force as ‘118401’ but in 1967 she became ‘032 / 4X-FNX’ with the Israeli Defence Force and remained in their service until 1999. Civil registered as ‘N155JM’ she then returned to the USA and was reregistered as N150D. She is now painted to represent 43-15087, a C-47A which flew paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Divison during D-Day. She was one of several ‘Daks’ to fly to Europe from the United States in 2019 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. She is seen landing at Old Warden as one of seven which visited for the Shuttleworth Collections ‘D-Day Anniversary Airshow’, held the following day. Old Warden Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, UK 1st June 2019

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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain ‘315087 / 9X-P’ (N150D) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 4463 Built 1942 for the US Military with the serial 41-18401 but operated first by Pan American Airways and then with the African Middle East Wing of Air Transport Command (ATC). Postwar she joined the French Air Force as ‘118401’ but in 1967 she became ‘032 / 4X-FNX’ with the Israeli Defence Force and remained in their service until 1999. Civil registered as ‘N155JM’ she then returned to the USA and was reregistered as N150D. She is now painted to represent 43-15087, a C-47A which flew paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Divison during D-Day. She was one of several ‘Daks’ to fly to Europe from the United States in 2019 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. She is seen taxiing in after landing at Old Warden as one of seven which visited for the Shuttleworth Collections ‘D-Day Anniversary Airshow’, held the following day. Old Warden Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, UK 1st June 2019

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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain ‘315087 / 9X-P’ (N150D) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 4463 Built 1942 for the US Military with the serial 41-18401 but operated first by Pan American Airways and then with the African Middle East Wing of Air Transport Command (ATC). Postwar she joined the French Air Force as ‘118401’ but in 1967 she became ‘032 / 4X-FNX’ with the Israeli Defence Force and remained in their service until 1999. Civil registered as ‘N155JM’ she then returned to the USA and was reregistered as N150D. She is now painted to represent 43-15087, a C-47A which flew paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Divison during D-Day. She was one of several ‘Daks’ to fly to Europe from the United States in 2019 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. Seen at the ‘Daks over Normandy’ event. Caen-Carpiquet Airport Normandy, France 7th June 2019