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As many readers are well aware, we have been following the restoration of combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095, better known as Beach City Baby, for some years now. Jason Capra and his band of volunteers at Vintage Wings Inc. have been carrying out this work at their facility in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and their remarkable grass-roots effort has returned a near-derelict airframe into a pristine representation of how the airframe would have looked while serving in the North Africa campaign during WWII. Now in the final stretch of their marathon effort to return this aircraft to flig...

As many readers are well aware, we have been following the restoration of combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095, better known as Beach City Baby, for some years now. Jason Capra and his band of volunteers at Vintage Wings Inc. have been carrying out this work at their facility in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and their remarkable grass-roots effort has returned a near-derelict airframe into a pristine representation of how the airframe would have looked while serving in the North Africa campaign during WWII. Now in the final stretch of their marathon effort to return this aircraft to flig...

Over the past seven years, we have been following the remarkable efforts by Jason Capra and his team at Vintage Wings Inc. as they have resurrected a combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper from its then near derelict condition into the pristinely restored, authentic representative of the breed. The team is now in the final stages of readying the aircraft for its first post-restoration flight, with the only major hurdle remaining involving the propellers. Jason Capra has just reported on these latest developments, and we thought our readers would be interested to see how the project is progress...

Despite the many hardships we have all endured this past year, 2021 did hold a number of positives for those of us with a passion for vintage aviation; this includes the return of major air shows, not to mention significant progress and even first flights for a number of restoration projects. We at WarbirdsNews have endeavored to keep our readers informed of as many developments as possible, with exclusive reports of major milestones in the warbird and aviation museum community. Although we couldn’t cover everything, it has been a remarkable year of growth for us. We are always looking for ...

As regular readers will know, we have been following the remarkable efforts of Jason Capra and Vintage Wings Inc. over the past five years as they successfully pursued the resurrection of combat-veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 41-20095. This aircraft, nicknamed Beach City Baby due to her long sojourn at the Ohio city of that name, is fast approaching her return to the skies at Vintage Wings' facility in Franklin, Pennsylvania. The aircraft performed her first taxi tests on December 12th, 2021.