The airport ramp will be open and visitors can tour the plane and see the crew.
The plane was a lead aircraft for the airborne invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The plane led some 800 C-47s that dropped more than 13,000 paratroopers into northeastern France.
After D-Day and other missions, the airplane returned to the United States and was sold on the civilian market in 1945, the museum said in a release Tuesday. Before it was sold, the plane also flew in operations Dragoon, Market Garden, Repulse and Varsity, according to a web site devoted to the plane’s history, https://thatsallbrother.org/.
“‘That’s All, Brother’ has been restored to its authentic 1944 condition, including its D-Day paint scheme and original interior,” the museum said in its release. “The aircraft returned to the skies over Normandy for the commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of D-Day in 2019.”
The plane is scheduled to depart Grimes Field on Tuesday morning for the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for a three-day visit. .
The aircraft will be available for viewing on static display at the Air Force Museum 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday; from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday; and 9 a.m. to noon Thursday.
The aircraft departs the Air Force Museum by 2 p.m. on Thursday.
Visitors can watch the aircraft land and take off from the museum’s Memorial Park.
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