WW II Aircraft Flies Again for NAWCAD

A rebuilt airplane that first flew before D-Day is flying again for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), this time equipped with the world’s most advanced airborne antenna for receiving signals from aircraft instruments.

Originally manufactured in 1944 at the Oklahoma City Douglas Aircraft plant, the reborn C-47 — the military version of the DC-3 passenger and cargo plane — has been almost completely rebuilt. Now known as the BT-67, it has several advantages over the modern aircraft that normally carry flight test instruments for NAWCAD’s Atlantic Test Ranges (ATR) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

View the full story in Tester newspaper, available online here.