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Walk around - Douglas B-23 Dragon

1948

Based on the B-18 Bolo, the Douglas company refined this medium bomber as B-23 Dragon. It had a DC-3 alike wing with larger wingspan and a fully retractable undercarriage. Also the B-23 was the first operational US bomber equipped with a glazed tail gun position. First flight was July 1939. It was however not so good as the B-25, so production was limited to about 38 aircraft and many were converted for transport tasks.

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B-23 Dragon

This is a UC-67, the 1963 redesignation of the B-23. This aircraft with serial.no."39-0047" was seen at the Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California.

Photographed 2017 by Cees Hendriks (c) copyright

  • B-23-0
  • B-23-1
  • B-23-10
  • B-23-11
  • B-23-12
  • B-23-13
  • B-23-14
  • B-23-15
  • B-23-16
  • B-23-17
  • B-23-18
  • B-23-2
  • B-23-20
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  • B-23-22
  • B-23-23
  • B-23-24
  • B-23-25
  • B-23-26
  • B-23-27
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  • B-23-3
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  • B-23-46
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  • B-23-48
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  • B-23-5
  • B-23-50
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  • B-23-52
  • B-23-53
  • B-23-6
  • B-23-7
  • B-23-8
  • B-23-9

Only one plastic scale model is known to have been released:  in 1/72 scale by Combat Models.

 

This walk around page was first published July 2018 by M. de Vreeze ;   note the Copyright!