She took a little extra time to complete, but she's worth every second of it.
C-FDTD Plane Savers Livery. I don't think she needs much more of an introduction than that!
mikeymcbryan -
Well folks, I bought a “new” DC-3. This isn’t just any regular goonybird though. This bird flew in the D-Day invasion! Her log books (FZ668) even mention she dropped 12 twenty pound bombs as she flew to her drop site that morning. Making her a D-Day “Bomber”. She hasn’t flown in almost 30 years and guess what... we are going to try and fly her on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day where she sits in Montreal. This will be a huge undertaking as this aircraft has been stripped out over the past three decades. But luckily enough we know where is lots of DC-3 parts. After that we plan to fly her to Oshkosh Airventure 2019 so you guys can see her in person.
Aircraft History: this aircraft was built in January 1944 by Douglas Aircraft Company at their plant in Oklahoma City. S/N 12253, C-47A-5-DK, tail number 42-92451. The RAF registration FZ668 was subsequently assigned to her when she was based in Europe. The Night before D-Day on June 5th 1944, FZ668, this Dakota, took off at 23:20 as one of a fleet of 108 RAF C-47s whose mission was to neutralize the German forces behind the beaches to be used for the landings. Her crew was F/O Nicholl, F/O Dale, F / s Marsden and Sgt Caves.
On board FZ668, bearing the chalk number 253 for this operation, twelve 20-pound bombs, "a small surprise for the troops defending the coast in France" as it was referred to in the operation log of the squadron, were dropped when crossing the French coast. Seventeen paratroopers jumped at around 00:50 on DZ "K" located near Toufreville that morning on D-Day. ?Their objective was to destroy the bridges over the Dive River. The paratroopers were split into two groups and met strong German resistance. The bridges were destroyed by engineers and the battle for the liberation of Europe began. FZ668 landed safely back at Blakehill Farm at 3:10. On top of D-Day this Aircraft also flew 5 mission during the operation Market-Garden.
After the war, she was purchased by Canadair, converted as DC-3C and flew for Trans-Canada Airlines as CF-TER
During the 70's she was acquired by Transport Canada who flew her until the early 90'S as CF-DTD.
To install: Download the .zip file to a location on your computer of your choice. I typically allow my PC to download files into my downloads folder for ease of finding downloaded files. Once downloaded, extract the primary file from the .zip. Inside the primary file you will find the two livery files. Copy each of these two files into your community folder. You can choose to only paste one or the other. For instance if you will only fly the GPS version, only paste that one into your community folder.
Version 1.0 - Uploaded early Tuesday morning - November 22, 2022 - Classic Version only in initial upload. Yes, there will be a GPS Version coming shortly in an update. If you find any textures missing, please let me know in the comments. I want her as close to the real thing as possible. Thank you.
Version 2.0 - November 23, 2022 - Added red door handles and corrected some texture alignment issues I had noticed. Added GPS version to file. Read description above for install instructions as there are now two files contained in the main file.
Version 2.1 - January 1, 2023 - Minor texture adjustments. Widened rear white invasion stripe and corrected the colour on the bubble antenna.
Version 2.2 - January 22, 2023 - Changed seating textures in cockpit and passenger compartment. Moved location of rear passsenger compartment plates to beside the lavatory door. Due to the model configuration I am unable to locate them in the same position as the real life C-FDTD as this model has the galley positioned at the rear. For viewing, this is to be the best location I have found.
If you really enjoy my work, I would really appreciate a small donation. Donations are strictly used for purchasing new planes that I receive requests to repaint. I can't paint them if I don't own them.
scorpionbc
I love to see Canadian content on MSFS. Thank you!. Have you seen any RCAF liveries for the venerable Dak? Every other country seems to be represented but the RCAF?
terrabit2001
Excellent Canadian history! Thank you for this.
If I had the skills you have, I would also do the Trans-Canada livery as well 😉
Canuckshaw author
That is one of the companies who flew C-FDTD and will be painted. It's reg was CF-TER. Soon to come.
2 years ago