Flying on an 80-YEAR OLD C-47! - Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum flight report

Located at Hamilton's John C. Munro International Airport, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum houses a collection of around 50 aircraft, many of which are still flying regularly. Each summer, CWHM sells tickets on their flying collection, ranging in price from $250 (Noorduyn Norseman) to $3900 (Avro Lancaster). This August, I decided to book a flight on their Douglas C-47 Dakota (military DC-3). The flight was 50 minutes (to Niagara Falls and back) and cost $350. Enjoy!
*All prices are in Canadian Dollars

[@normanfelger4332]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. I was just at the museum two weeks ago. I got to see the Lancaster fly! What an awesome aircraft!

[@123danyk123]

Incroyable vidéo de ton vol dans cet avion de la 2e Guerre Mondiale qu’est le DC-3!!! En espérant que tu a pris aussi beaucoup de photos 📸📸 et que tu a réaliser un de tes rêves! ❤
J’ai été dans le AVRO LANCASTER du CWHM le 16 Août 2015 (Je ne peut pas en parler beaucoup) c’était incroyable comme vol ❤

[@HORISBOX]

wow,,,Is it 80 years old? Amazing. It seems like it would be hard to maintain, but when you watch the video, you can see that the interior is also beautifully maintained.👍

[@CuteSealYHM]

@@HORISBOX yup, it's 81 years old but it's been refurbished many times (it was used by the government after it was done in the air force)

[@mechcntr7185]

Does the aircraft have retrofitted turboprop engines?

[@normanfelger4332]

@mechcntr7185
No sir. The Lancaster still uses Four 12 cylinder Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. 1650 Cubic Inches producing up to 1800 horsepower!

[@normanfelger4332]

V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

[@CuteSealYHM]

*the C-47 has two P&W R-1830 Twin Wasps

[@mechcntr7185]

@@normanfelger4332 I am pretty sure the subject aircraft here is a C-47 (DC-3)