Douglas C-53 Skytrooper 'D-day Doll'

D-Day Doll was built at Douglas’s Santa Monica factory as part of a batch of 159 C-53s for the US Army Air Force. C-53s were closer to an airliner specification than C-47s and didn’t have the large cargo door or reinforced floor of the latter. C-53s were also missing the radome and had different instrument and control layouts and a more open layout at the front of the passenger compartment. Named Skytroopers, only 380 were built which makes the Doll and her D-Day squadron sister ‘Spirit of Benovia’ quite select. D-Day Doll also sports Wright Cyclone R-1820 engines rather than the more usual Twin Wasps. After a distinguished war career, D-Day Doll pursued a varied life with multiple owners in South and Central USA before working her way back to her home state of California where she now resides at Riverside Municipal Airport.

This very detailed scale model (1:100) features the D-day Doll art on the nose.

Scale: 1:100
Size: 20x30cm
Includes a free display stand.