It's at the Missoula airport. Underwhelming but still worth the visit. This replica of the Red Baron's plane was based on a scale model; the builder was unable to locate the original plans.
I recall seeing pictures of this in some magazine, don't recall who made it or what it's called.
The venerable DC-3, military version C-47. This one was refurbished and flown across the pond to celebrate the anniversary of D Day.
I rode in these several times, first in the forest service en route to a fire in the Seven Devils Wilderness. Indeed, it was a Johnson Flying Service plane and may have been this one. Johnson was an aviation pioneer and pilot trainer, trained several thousand air force pilots.
C-47s were one of the workhorses in Vietnam, flew in them several times.
This is the front end of the plane above.
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