World War II aircraft restored and returned to Midwest City
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December 10, 2017
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — After playing a crucial role in World War II and years lying derelict in a school parking lot, an Oklahoma-built C-47 Skytrain is finally coming home.
Tail no. 42-92838 came off the assembly line at the Douglas Aircraft Plant in Midwest City on March 5, 1944.
That June, flying low over France, it delivered a stick of 17 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day.
On Dec. 3, the restored aircraft journeyed from Newcastle to its new permanent home on Douglas Blvd. at Midwest City's Veteran's Memorial at Joe B. Barnes Regional Park. The move required coordina...
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