NEWSLETTER
101st Airborne Reenactors Create Realistic Paratrooper Experience for C-47 Passengers September 6th
Farmingdale, NY (August 22, 2025) - American Airpower Museum continues its popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, September 6, 2025, commemorating the End of World War II 80th Anniversary. Passengers will fly in an original WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain Troop Transport, and are joined by AAM’s living historians for a breathtakingly realistic and unforgettable recreation of what U.S. Paratroopers experienced in their quest to liberate Europe from Nazi fascism.
This one-of-a-kind immersive living history educational program lasts about two hours including your 20–25-minute flight in our legendary WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Living Historians guide participants from arrival as they gear up! They receive their 101st Airborne D-Day operations briefing prior to boarding the museum’s C-47 Skytrain, as if it were June 5, 1944. Flying over Long Island’s south shore beaches provides the backdrop for a simulated jump and a sense of what U.S. 101st and 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers experienced on their June 5, 1944 momentous 1,200-plane airborne assault, behind the lines of the Normandy Beach landings at Utah, Point Du Hoc, and Omaha Beach.
During your flight experience, you’ll wear authentic reproduction M-42/M-43 field jackets, just like the ones worn by paratroopers during D-Day and Operation Market Garden, Replica “Steel Pot” G.I. helmets, and your simulated jump harness. You’ll feel and hear the C-47’s engines firing up as you take to the skies. See, hear and feel what it was like for the crew operating their C-47 and paratroopers getting ready to make history on the night of June 5th and day of June 6, 1944. As you ready to “cross the beaches” you’ll “stand up” and “hook up,” simulating what it was like to be ready on the static line for the green light. Don’t worry, there’s no real jumping, it’s all a living history re-enactment of course! You then return to Hangar 3 and take photos with our living historians, crew and C-47!
Four flights are scheduled on September 6th, at 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Seats are allocated on a first come, first served basis, so act today and reserve your flight! Passengers must arrive 60 minutes before their scheduled flights. To book flights online, visit www.americanairpowermuseum.org and click the “Flight Experience” tab. Or call (516) 531-3950, (631) 454-2039, or visit AAM’s Cockpit USA gift shop Wednesday to Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Hangar 3, 1230 New Highway, Farmingdale, NY 11735.
Cost for each C-47 flight is $375. A flight experience lets you bring two guests who can watch flights take off and land, plus visit AAM’s exhibits all day, for a reduced rate of $10 each. Others may wish to visit AAM on September 6th, just to watch the flights and tour our exhibits. In that case, admission for adults is $18, seniors and veterans is $15, and for children ages 3-12, $12. (No tickets or pre-registration is needed for regular admission.)
This is a wonderful way to educate present day Americans about WWII and our Greatest Generation veterans. Support AAM’s mission to honor American military aviation history and our great veterans, by helping maintain and preserve their legacy, the museum’s iconic aircraft. Help Keep ‘Em Flying!
Contact: Robert F. Salant, Public Affairs, (718) 791-4758, rsalant123@outlook.com
The American Airpower Museum is an aviation museum located on the landmarked former site of Republic Aviation at Republic Airport, Farmingdale, NY. The Museum maintains a collection of aviation artifacts and an array of operational aircraft spanning the many years of the aircraft factory's history. The Museum is a 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Educational Foundation Chartered by the New York State Board of Regents.
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