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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:C-9B
    Last Military Serial:160050 USN
    Construction Number:47669
    Last Civil Registration:N932L
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-9B sn 160050 USN cn 47669...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    By April 1975

    Constructed as a C-9B.

    11 April 1975

    First flight.

    19 December 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160050.

    From December 1975 to After July 1977

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 55 (VR-55), NAS Alameda, CA.
    Operated with markings: RU-050, Alameda

    By June 1980

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 58 (VR-58), NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    9 December 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for N932L (DC-9-32, 47669) issued.

    By July 1988

    Markings Applied: City of Orange Park

    From December 1990 to April 1991

    Deployed to Sembach Air Base, Germany for flying support missions during Operation Desert Storm.

    By 1999

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 52 (VR-52), NAS Willow Grove, PA.

    By 1999

    Markings Applied: JV-050, VR52

    Circa 1 October 1999


    Photographer: unkown

    17 September 2001

    To Bravo Capital 23474 Llc, Boca Raton, FL with new c/r N932L.

    7 December 2001

    Civil registration, N932L, cancelled.

    29 June 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    29 June 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    29 June 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    By August 2012

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VR-61), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

    30 June 2014

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 384940.

    30 June 2014

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 8.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By March 2017

    Markings Applied: Caboose
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     Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Plane Spotters by Thomas Noack
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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