RD4-6Q Gooney Bird - Birmingham, AL
N 33° 33.764 W 086° 44.523
16S E 523942 N 3713704
The R4D was the US Navy designation for the Douglas DC-3 (C-47). The R4D-6Q belonging to the Southern Museum of Flight is displayed in the colors of the North Carolina Forest Service.
Waymark Code: WMG11Z
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2012
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The 101 DC-3A-360's (R4D-1) were ordered in three different groups; 30 were ordered directly by the USN on 16 September 1940, followed by an order for 33 more; these were delivered between February and October 1942. The next 34 were ordered by the USAAF as C-47-DLs and transferred to the USN between November 1942 and February 1943. These aircraft, built at the Douglas Long Beach, California plant and powered by two 1,200 hp (894.8 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 engines, were cargo and passenger transports.
R4D-6: The 157 DC-3A-467's were ordered by the USAAF as C-47B-DLs and transferred to the USN between August 1944 and March 1945. These aircraft, built at the Long Beach, California plant, were identical to the R4D-5 but were equipped with two 1,200 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C engines with two-stage, two-speed superchargers, provisions for fuel tanks in the fuselage and improved heaters. These aircraft had been developed for high-altitude flights over the "Hump" in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater.
R4D-6Qs were modified post World War II as electronic countermeasures (ECM) trainers with three crew, eleven students and an instructor.
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The R4D-6Q belonging to the Southern Museum of Flight is displayed in the colors of the North Carolina Forest Service.
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