Access to the interior of the Dakota is via steps.
We need to explain some of the language used within. The Americans named the C-47, "SKYTRAIN" and the British and her Commonwealth knew them as "DAKOTA" which came from Douglas Aircraft Company (yes we know!) Transport Aircraft... D.A.KO.T.A. Our Dakota is actually a C-47A.
​Read about  Operation Nightingale. The project to get the Dakota undercover.
Post War Incident involving KG651 as told by her pilot at the time.
The Metheringham link to C-47 Aircraft
KG651 - Her life at Metheringham
Get the DAKOTA painted as you want it!
Genuine piece of KG651 Airframe.
​Taken during restoration.
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