D-Day Squadron - Send off Schedule

Waterbury-Oxford Airport, CT (KOXC), Click HERE for airport information.

Suggested donation $10 per person to help defray event costs including parking and crowd control. ( Maps will be available soon).
Aircraft will be available for viewing, but likely not for tours as this is a working week for the crews.
General Public Hours 9:00 – 5:00 p.m. Daily – Access to the aircraft before and after those time will be prohibited because we won’t have ramp security in place.

Attending Aircraft (as of May 1, 2019) **

*Placid Lassie
That’s All Brother
D-day Doll
Miss Montana
Miss Virginia
Virginia Ann
Flabob Express
Spirit of Benovia
Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber
Legend Airways
Pan Am Clipper*

** The rest of the airplanes will fly directly to Goose Bay (Canada).

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

13-14 May

D-day Squadron C-47 aircraft assemble at Oxford, CT Airport (KOXC) for pre-crossing briefings, survival raft training, formation training flights and media flights.

15 May (Wednesday)

8:00 – 10:15 a.m. – Public C-47 Rides Offered: (Pan Am Clipper and That’s All Brother)

11:00 – 2:45 p.m. D-day Squadron fly-out to KBDL (Hartford, CT) and New England Air Museum for lunch. Park at Signature Aviation at KBDL.

Afternoon: Formation flights and overflight of the Pratt & Whitney Plant.

Late Afternoon: Public C-47 Rides offered: (Pan Am Clipper and That’s All Brother)

16 May (Thursday)

8:30 a.m. Official press welcome

9:00 a.m. Press conference. (Members of the media can register HERE)

10:00 a.m. Individual crew interviews

11:00 a.m. Media flight(s)

Afternoon: crew training and formation training flights

17 May (Friday)

Morning: Oceanic procedures / Atlantic flight briefing

Afternoon: Formation practice

Late Afternoon: Public C-47 Rides Offered: (Pan Am Clipper and That’s All Brother)

5:45 p.m. D-day Squadron group photo (location TBD)

6:00 p.m. Official D-day Squadron Kick-Off Dinner and Celebration, Oxford, CT Airport (KOXC) Reservations required: Jon Helminiak, Executive Director Tunison Foundation, jonh@tunisonfoundation.org Dinner Sponsors: Dassault-Falcon Jet, People’s Bank, Safe Flight, Inc.

Special Guest Speaker: Capt. Peter Goutierre, veteran of 680 C-47 flights over “the Hump”.

6:00 p.m. Official D-day Squadron Kick-Off Dinner and Celebration, Oxford, CT Airport (KOXC) Reservations required: jonh@tunisonfoundation.org

18 May (Saturday)

0500 – 0700: Photography Workshop: Sunrise

Hudson River and Statue of Liberty Flyover: Lead Aircraft: Placid Lassie.

0800: Formation Flight Briefing

0930: Arrival of Air Station Cape Cod HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, to be on static display for public viewing until 4:00 p.m.

1000: Start Engines

1030-1100: Launch and assemble over KOXC

Route of flight: Route of flight: Proceed west bound over HPN to the Hudson River near the Tappan Zee Bridge. Proceed southbound along the river; fly by the west side of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Make 180 turn south of the Verrazano Bridge. Proceed north, probably up the East River and the East side of Manhattan, over LaGuardia and then along the Connecticut shoreline to Bridgeport. At Bridgeport, we turn north back to OXC.

Noon: Recovery at KOXC and Photography workshop

1830 – 2030: Photography Workshop: Sunset (with reenactors)

19 May (Sunday)

0600: D-day Squadron Crew Weather Briefing

0700: D-day Squadron Departs for PQI and Goose Bay, Canada: Lead Aircraft: Placid Lassie.

Photography workshop: 5:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.