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One hundred thousand passionate enthusiasts welcomed the DC-3 at the Breitling Sion Airshow 2017 as it made its grand return to Switzerland after circling the globe this past year.
To share its passion for aviation with a broad audience around the planet, Breitling launched its DC-3 on a world tour in stages that notably included the Balkans, the Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Pacific and North America.
This “Breitling DC-3 World Tour” came to a fitting conclusion in Sion, where the propeller-driven twin-engine plane arrived escorted by the Frecce Tricolori, the elite Italian Air Force squadron.
The crew and certain privileged passengers were not the only ones to have flown aboard this veteran of the conquest of the skies. To mark the event, Breitling had also created a limited edition of its famous Navitimer aviation chronograph, the cult watch among pilots and aeronautical enthusiasts since 1952, and decided to have it travel around the world in the Breitling DC-3.
To conclude the tour, Breitling has chosen to donate two Swiss francs to UNICEF for each mile covered across its 45,374-kilometre (24,500 nautical mile) journey.
