{"id":1370,"date":"2022-01-10T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/?page_id=1370"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:20:28","slug":"utility-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/?page_id=1370","title":{"rendered":"Utility Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"porto-u-heading  wpb_custom_95aa9a11c17ad45cfabaf210d84ee7cc porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac \"><div class=\"porto-u-main-heading\"><h2  >Utility Aircraft<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"porto-u-sub-heading\" style=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">War Eagles\u2019 collection of utility aircraft represent a broad category of both equipment and troop transport planes, reconnaissance, observation, and forward air control.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><style>.porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac.porto-u-heading{text-align:center}<\/style><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Douglas C-47A \u2013<\/strong>The Douglas DC-3 was built in 1935 and quickly became the standard for U.S. air carriers. The U.S. Army Air Force saw huge potential in the DC-3 as a cargo and troop carrier and bought thousands under the military designation C-47. They formed the backbone of military transportation throughout WWII in the European theater. This included D-Day and Market Garden as well as flying the Burma-China \u201cHump\u201d and later during the Cold War in the Berlin Airlift.<br \/>\nWar Eagles\u2019 DC-3 was delivered to the U.S. Army as a C-47 on April 26, 1944. It flew on D-Day as well as Operation Market Garden, transporting airborne troops and towing gliders that brought in jeeps and artillery too large for the C-47 to airdrop.<br \/>\nAfter the war, it was converted into a civilian DC-3 that flew for Phillips Petroleum for 27 years. It also flew for at least seven different regional airlines before being purchased by museum founder John MacGuire in 1985.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1562&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1376&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"porto-u-heading  wpb_custom_95aa9a11c17ad45cfabaf210d84ee7cc porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac \"><div class=\"porto-u-main-heading\"><h2  >Featured Utility Aircraft<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"porto-u-sub-heading\" style=\"\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Douglas-C-47A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Douglas C-47A<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fiesler-Storch-FL-156.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiesler Storch FL-156<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Stinson-L-5A-Sentinel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stinson L-5A Sentinel<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Stinson-L-13A-Grasshopper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stinson L-13A Grasshopper<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Stinson-SR-10-V77-Reliant.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stinson SR-10\/V-77 Reliant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><style>.porto-u-55ca8359258f9a412be7e73af65d2aac.porto-u-heading{text-align:center}<\/style><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Douglas C-47A \u2013The Douglas DC-3 was built in 1935 and quickly became the standard for U.S. air carriers. The U.S. Army Air Force saw huge potential in the DC-3 as a cargo and troop carrier and bought thousands under the military designation C-47. They formed the backbone of military transportation throughout WWII in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":861,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions\/3593"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wareaglesairmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}