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Another update work. Actually I wanted to do just several DC-3/C-47's. Definitely no more than DC-2's. But as You can see it ended up as usual.

It should be noted, that I've made few minor changes to the "base" drawing of these DC's since I posted blank few weeks ago.

Also, while usually I don't post Polish paint schemes of planes that are only yet to appear in Polish Wings, but this time I made an exception.

USA, Douglas DC-3 / C-47 / C-53 Skytrain / Dakota
(Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Libya, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, Yugoslavia)
















In 1944 one C-47 was converted to assault glider configuration (to be towed by C-54). Although tests were quite successful, it was judged that there's no demand for such vehicle. Later, in 1954 another C-47 was experimentally converted to similar configuration in field conditions.
USA, Douglas XCG-17


Shortly before WW2 Japan bought license for DC-3's.
Japan, Showa L2D


In the late 1940s Douglas designed an upgrade package for C-47's. Air Force wasn't interested and preferred Convair C-131's, but Navy and Marines found idea interesting, not least for financial reasons.

USA, Douglas R4D-8 / C-117D Super Skytrain



Large numbers of DC-3/C-47's remain in service even today, but spare parts for engines are a major issue, therefore a number of turboprop conversions were designed, of which Basler Turbo BT-67 is most popular.

Basler Turbo BT-67



In late 1930s Soviet Union purchased license for DC-3, initially produced as PS-84 and later as Lisunov Li-2 (after head of the design group that implemented design changes for Soviet model). Soviet machines accounted for nearly a third of the whole production run of DC-3 family.

Soviet Union (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, China), Lisunov Li-2

Amazing work, eswube.

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Eswube, simply amazing!!

EDIT: Heretic! You've posted a Polish airplane outside of Polish Wings!!!

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Repainting:

• Grumman F4F Wildcat/Grumman G-36
  Caproni Ca.135bis

Wow! outstanding work!

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I dunno...I think eswube may have missed one of the DC-3's built.

Wonderful, simply wonderful.
CraigH

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Sweet.

Fun fact, because there are a handful of C-47Ts still in US State Department service, and they are maintained by the Military, the next transport in US service will be the C-48 - they are not supposed to re-use the in-service designation.

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@ Eswube
And once again you make my eyes water - so many beautiful old girls...
But I miss Buffalo's DC-3...
Btw, great news from Jeff Copeshi: He's been promoted and now he's chief engineer for the Northern Island Maglev tracks.

@Cunardfan
Thanks for your Dornier 328. After I had done the 328 Jet, I thought about doing her myself, but you spared me the work.

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Thank You for all these great comments!

@Naixoterk - Yeah, I know, I'm sorry.


@CraighH - I thought it would be kind to leave one or two if someone else would want to do them.

@TimothyC - It's particularly amazing if You think that DC-3 first flew 79 years ago and reboot of the DoD designations took place 52 years ago.

@KimWolf - I think it would be always great to see further paint schemes, particularly airline ones, like Buffalo.
Haha... congratulations to Jeff!

Very nice to see the Dakota, a flying legend. Among users of the C-47 is Hellas (not referred at all in users above).

The C-47 was used by something like 100 countries and god knows how many operators. You can't seriously expect him to include all of them.

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