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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:C-117D
    Last Military Serial:12420 USMC
    Construction Number:09442
    Last Civil Registration:N587MB
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 12420 USMC cn 094...
    Latest Owner or Location:Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-25-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-23580.

    Converted to a R4D-8.
    New construction number, 43312, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 12420.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    From 1979 to 1982

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 6C055.
    At Davis Monthan.

    1982

    To Western International Aviation with new c/r N89WA.

    1987

    To Millardair with new c/r C-GJGN.

    Markings Applied: 12420

    8 July 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for N587MB (DC-3S/R4D-8, 43312) issued.

    18 December 1998

    To Dragon Air Leasing Inc, Cooper City, FL with new c/r N587MB.


    Photographer: Unknown

    7 January 2002

    To TMF Aircraft Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N587MB.

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N587MB (DC-3S/R4D-8, 43312) issued.

    20 April 2010


    Photographer: Gottfried Darringer
    Notes: Opa Locka Airport

    20 April 2011

    To TMF Aircraft Inc, Opa Locka, FL keeping c/r N587MB.

    Based at Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, FL.
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    10 December 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Opa Locka, Florida

    28 February 2020

    Civil registration, N587MB, cancelled.

    4 March 2021


    Photographer: Don Browne
    Notes: AT LaBelle, Florida x14
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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