Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina.

Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 cargo plane that helped support the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s. The plane was badly damaged by a tornado in South Carolina in 2020.

C-54 transport planes line up at Rhein-Main Air Base, a hub of the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift. U.S. AIR FORCE/BERLIN AIRLIFT VETERANS ASSOCIATION Early in the Airlift, C-47s unload their valuable ...

It’s the last flying C-54 that participated in the Berlin Airlift. It’s flown by the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation and will be open to the public Thursday morning until Saturday ...

One story about the Berlin Airlift used to explain “factor abundance and leadership” so inspired the Rutgers Executive MBA Class of 2023, that as a class gift, they commissioned a painting of the ...

During the airlift, over 2.3 million tons of fuel, food and supplies were delivered to West Berlin in over 278,000 airdrops, according to a history of the campaign, by the U.S. Department of Defense.

To boost the effort, the U.S. Military Air Transport Service deployed nine C-54 squadrons to support the airlift, committing over a third of America’s airlift and two-thirds of available C-54 aircrews ...

Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina.

The C-54 “Spirit of Freedom,” a vital airlift workhorse during the Berlin Airlift, represents the enduring spirit of resilience and hope.

Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. Air Force orchestrated the greatest humanitarian airlift in history to keep the citizens of West Berlin from starving, and give them hope.

The Douglas C-54 is now owned by the Aviator Brewing Company and will eventually be accessible to the public. A Berlin Airlift relic lies in pieces in Fuquay-Varina, but a revival is planned Skip ...

Behind the Aviator Brewing Company, amid the trucks and rows of empty beer kegs, sits an airplane cut in half, its nose and tail sections placed side by side. The plane is a Douglas C-54, introduced ...