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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-7
    Last Military Serial:99831 USN
    Construction Number:16422
    Last Civil Registration:N57123
    Compressed ID:Douglas R4D-7 sn 99831 USN cn 16422...
    Latest Owner or Location:Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TC-47B-30-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 33170, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76838.

    Redesignated as R4D-7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 99831.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4443Y.

    To unknown owner with c/r N6059Y.

    To unknown owner with c/r N57123.

    26 October 1984

    To Aviation Enterprises Inc, Addison, TX keeping c/r N57123.

    September 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Mesa Falcon Field, AZ

    7 August 1996


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Scanned from my photo taken at Mesa Falcon Field in 1996

    24 November 1999

    To Aviation Enterprises Inc, Addison, TX keeping c/r N57123.

    In the inventory of Marsh Aviation Company, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    In derelict condition.

    27 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: In Basler yard at Oshkosh

    In the inventory of Basler Turbo Conversions, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    23 June 2017

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N57123.

    20 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Still at Baslers yard in Oshkosh

    27 July 2022


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: still at Basler
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