Swedish DC-3 Daisy, a Normandy invasion veteran, visiting Finland in summer 2023, Turku Airshow 2023.
Plane: Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) "Daisy"
Flygande Veteraners DC-3:a Fridtjof Viking.
Turku Airshow 2023
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Daisy's history:
Daisy was manufactured at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach factories in South Los Angeles, California with production number (c/n) 13883, as a C-47 A-60-DL Skytrain, a military version of the DC-3 with a large cargo door, reinforced floor and larger fuel tanks.
She was delivered to the US Army Air Forces on 5 October 1943 and was given USAAF s/n 43-30732. On the tail fin the numbers 330732 were painted.
Daisy was manufactured in the middle of World War II and delivered directly to the US Army Air Forces in October 1943 and was based in Oran, Algeria. There she transported troops, goods and supplies. In 1944 she was re-based to England in preparation for the Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe.
According to several consistent reports, Daisy participated during D-Day on June 6, 1944.
More information: www.flygandeveteraner.se/dais...
Turku Airshow 2023
The annual main airshow is the biggest aviation event each year in Finland. Airshow is organized every year in different city / airport to cover the whole country. The main airshow returns now to Turku after four years. Previous shows were at Turku 2019 and 2015. Finland’s main annual airshow is also the main annual airshow for Finnish Air Force, Army Aviation and Border Guard. Therefore the airshow is organized with close co-operation with them.
The previous Turku Airshow was organized in 2019, Swedish Gripen, USAF C-17A, Finnish F/A-18 Hornet and CRJ900NG to name few participants.
Modernien suihkuhävittäjien jyrinää ja klassista taitolentoa koko perheen tapahtumassa Turku Air Show’ssa 17.-18.6.2023. Tutustu harrasteilmailuun ja tapaa lentäjiä, mekaanikkoja sekä muita ilmailufiilistelijöitä. Lentävien esitysten lisäksi myös laaja maanäyttely Turun lentokentän asematasolla, jossa yleisöllä mahdollisuus tavata lentäjiä, mekaanikkoja ja ilmailun muita harrastajia. Tervetuloa mukaan Turun Lentonäytökseen 2023!
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