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Your last chance to see history.

  • Matt Wilkins
  • May 5
  • 2 min read

This is a year of extremely significant anniversaries; Sally B's 50th Anniversary aligns with another of momentous importance - VE Day. 80 years since Victory in Europe was declared is, of course, a milestone being marked all over the World.


In a truly historic one off, the Commemorative Air Force has embarked on a 12,000 mile tour with their Douglas R4D-6S, the very rare Navy version of the legendary Douglas DC3. 'Ready 4 Duty' is the last of her kind still flying and she's doing an awful lot of flying this year.


She arrived at her UK base for the Summer, IWM Duxford, in April and will be marking VE80 by visiting airfields and airshows all over the UK, France and the Netherlands.


This historic tour organised by the CAF with help from the IWM is a once in a lifetime initiative. It's no mean feat to cross the Atlantic in any aircraft which isn't an airliner - much less one in its 9th decade. Aboard the aircraft as she performs what David Oliver, President and CEO of the CAF, describes as a "heartfelt tribute to countless allies sailors and airmen who served with courage and conviction during the Second World War" various artefacts are making the trip including items from USS Yorktown, USS Texas and USS Laffey.


We're extremely honoured and delighted to not only welcome the aircraft in the skies above Old Buckenham, but also a ground exhibit that the CAF are kindly bringing. The aircraft won't land here as she's very big and we only have so much parking space. What her displays at Old Buckenham will be, however, are the last dates on the tour. She'll appear both days and by definition Sunday 27th July will be the very last chance to witness a truly historic feat of airmanship courtesy of the magical and brilliant Commemorative Air Force. Don't miss it because 12,000 mile epics like this tour only happen once in a lifetime. We are overwhelmed that we're the last stop before Ready for Duty and her crew head home; their place in this history books well and truly claimed.




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