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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:50835 USMC
    Construction Number:26998
    Last Civil Registration:N835TD
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 50835 USMC cn 269...
    Latest Owner or Location:MCAS Miramar (North Side), San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49737.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 50835.

    Redesignated as R4D-6.

    Converted to a R4D-8.
    New construction number, 43321, assigned to the airframe.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    Was the last C-117D to serve with US Marine Corps.

    1983


    Photographer: Unknown

    10 September 1985

    To Lan-Dale Co, Reno, NV with new c/r N835TD.

    By 13 March 1993

    Based with Marine Corps Museum, MCAS El Toro, CA.

    1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Command Museum, CA

    Based at MCAS Miramar (North Side), San Diego, CA.
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    14 October 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    14 October 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    By 15 October 2004

    Markings Applied: 835, MCAS IWAKUNI, 0835

    15 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    17 September 2013

    Civil registration, N835TD, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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