Unleashing horrifying firepower and raining death and destruction on to the communist forces in Vietnam from the dark skies above, the AC-47 fixed-wing gunship was the first of its kind. Giving cargo ...

If some of the U.S. Air Force’s current aircraft are a rare sight, what about the retired warbirds that wrote history? It’s an honor to watch them conquer the sky once again, even if it is just to ...

A few days before Christmas, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Gulf Coast Wing unveiled the newly applied paint scheme on its AC-47 "Spooky" gunship. The aircraft was rolled out of Delta TechOps, ...

One of the most important elements of a restoration is determining the aircraft markings, and the Gulf Coast Wing of the CAF ...

Say what you want about air shows, but where else do you get to see airplanes from entirely different eras flying together? Heritage flights is how they call these amazing get-togethers, and later ...

As a close air support warplane, the AC-47 was an essential lifeline in the often close quarter combat of the Vietnam War. Originally developed in the 1930s, the C-47 Skytrain was the military variant ...