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I used to see Daks all the time, courtesy of the Dutch Dakota association. Holland is very active in the vintage passenger plane department. besides the DC-3's we also have the worlds only flying DC-2 and Europe's only Constelation ( will be flying again next year) + the worlds oldest flying Fokker F-27, Also the Vintage register is growing, I think we now have two P-51's and an AN-2 and AFAIK a dutch yak group is also Trying to obtain a flying Yak-9... exciting stuff! And another interesting thing is the Historic Jet Association which is going to do airshows in Fouga Magisters ( I think they have 4)

Another one I'd like to mention is the DDA DC-4.. I've seen her many times in the past but One occasion stands out from the others. I was on my way back to school and I heard the engines. I stopped and looked up and there she was, about 30 feet high on Approach to Valkenburg NAS!!! The sound was incredible! Hopefully she'll return to the DDA... would be nice to hav a Formation af the DC-2,3 and 4 

Also I've seen The DBAF B-25J do stuff you wouldn't imagine that a B-25 could do that! Again at Valkenburg NAS. After that the Local Orions did a three way split! T'was a nice day!


Might not be the most unique stuff but still very nice!

Oops I forgot the one and only Li-2 left flying in the world, saw that last year (and posted photos of it)

We had an An-2 based at my local airport (N85) for a while. Dissapeared a few years ago and I'm not quite sure what happened to it. Sad really because that's the plane the sparked my interest in aviation.

Edit-also saw the a Polish Air Force Tu-154 the other week at Giants Stadium.

I really don't know.
I suppose most of the stuff you see in museums are rare.
I suppose the rarest I have seen flying will have been a Concorde a few years back when it made a trip to leeds bradford, and a load of other stuff that you see at airshows like the Sea Vixen etc.

All you people saying DC-3 as a rare plane stop, its not rare at all....there are a couple hundred still flying.

The rarest Ive seen I saw today, the only flying SB2C Helldiver in the world

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Crap, I was going to an airshow today (Richmond RAAF)... only problem was it was 1 hour and 11 minutes away from where I live... so I missed it.  The RAAF was displaying their new C-17s!  And the USAF had a KC-135 there! I've also seen a couple of KC-10s flying in to YSSY why from time to time. Seen the A380.  all the 10yr olds there thought that it would be "really loud" because of its size. lol. Ive had an Adagold Il-76 fly over my school. 

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No need to worry. The first RAAF C-17 hadn't flown as of 10 days ago, and the C-17 at the show is a USAF one - seemingly a reasonably regular visitor.