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 air fields 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 (KSQI) in Rock Falls, IL, just a few weeks
ago.