Walker Logistics restores WW2 aircraft in Berkshire, UK

Logistics services company, Walker Logistics, has restored a World War Two aircraft in a Berkshire village, within the UK.
Walker Logistics intended to commemorate the role that the village played in the War by restoring the aircraft, which took off from Membury Airfield more than seven decades ago. The site is currently home to the company’s 200,000 sq ft multi-user warehouse, the same location where aircraft took flight, partaking in the D-Day landings of 1944. Hundreds of troops heading for Normandy used the location as their departure point.
One of the few reminders of that history is an image of one of the iconic C-47 aircraft that took off from Membury during the Normandy campaign that dominates the front entrance to Walker’s facility.
Now a real life C-47 is being readied for a return to Membury.
The plane was about to be destroyed at an Arkansas scrap yard in 2012 but has been saved and is currently being restored in the Midlands.
“I want to bring it back to ‘base’ once again,” says Charlie Walker, Walker Logistics’ customer relations director.
The plan is to have the aircraft fully restored and back at Membury for the 75^th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.
And Charlie, who holds a commercial airline pilot’s license, intends to fly the historic aircraft ‘home’ himself.
Charlie Walker adds: “This is an exciting project and we hope that the return of a fully operational C-47 will be seen as a fitting tribute to the men who took part in the allied invasion of occupied Europe in 1944.”