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December 25, 2022

Classic Aero-TV: Coming Home To Roost -- The 'Last Time' For The DC-3 Community

From 2010 (YouTube Version): An Extraordinary Gathering That May Truly Be The Last Of Its Kind

What a concept... An historic event, billed as “The Last Time”, was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the DC-3 type aircraft. Designed as an airliner in 1935, the DC-3 was pressed into military service in WWII as the C-47 and served in every theater of the war. Formerly; the largest gathering of them, in any one place, was at the English airfields in preparation for the D-day invasion of Normandy. Some of these same crew members once again flew in these magnificent birds gathering at Whiteside Airport (

Firm Notes Purchase to Delivery Occurred in Less than a Year

Bell Textron tendered a pair of brand new Subaru 412EPX helicopters to the Guatemalan Air Force at a ceremony at the La Aurora International Airport. The aircraft fall under an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity contract signed between Bell and the U.S. Army Multinational Aviation Special Programs Office earlier this year. The joint Subaru/Bell aircraft sports all the most modern improvements to the basic UH-1 Design, slotting in neatly to a long time operator of Bell aircraft.