LIMITED EDITION

The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation is dedicated to honouring the memory and legacy of the Berlin Airlift by preserving several aircraft used in the great event and creating 'Flying Memorials and Classrooms' with the purpose of educating the public. The Foundation purchased this aircraft in 1996, and is planning to create a flying exhibit dedicated to the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War. The C-97G is former USAF C-97G,52-2718 which is one of only 2 remaining airworthy C-97's in the world. It has been repainted in the livery of the sole C-97 used in the 1948 Berlin Airlift with the serial of that machine - 559595 - known as 'Angel of Deliverance'.

Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter

Designed as a long-range airliner for premier services across the Atlantic and the Pacific, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was first flown on July 8, 1947. This luxurious post-war double-decker propeller airliner had a spiral staircase leading to a lower-level lounge and state-of-the-art pressurization, but it was expensive to maintain and operate. Just 56 of the type were built as airliners—the remaining saw service as C-97 military transports or KC-97 tankers. Stratocruisers continued to fly commercially until the 1960s, when the introduction of the Boeing 707 and the de Havilland Comet made them obsolete.