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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-47-DL
    Last Military Serial:41-19492 USAAF
    Construction Number:06135
    Last Civil Registration:YV1854
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47-DL sn 41-19492 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

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

    24 January 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-19492.

    Transferred to 10th AF India, India China Wing ATC.

    10 April 1946

    To unknown owner with c/r N9080C.

    Circa 1950

    To Indamer Corp, Lafayette, IN keeping c/r N9080C.

    June 1953

    To Hindustan Aircraft Co with new c/r VT-DGU.

    18 March 1955

    To Indamer Corp, Lafayette, IN with new c/r N9080C.

    April 1955

    To Ariana Afgan Airlines with new c/r YA-AAC.

    5 March 1956

    Civil registration, N9080C, cancelled.

    1973

    To Lambair with new c/r CF-DBJ.

    13 June 1973


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-DBJ at Winnipeg on 13Jun73 - Imported from Ariana Afghan Airlines (YA-AAC) and still in their basic livery, this DC-3 was operated with Lambair until sold to Perimeter Airlines in Oct/82.

    October 1982

    To Perimeter Airlines with new c/r C-FDBJ.

    May 1986


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: In Perimeter Aviation livery at Winnipeg International

    May 1988

    To Aeroejecutivos with new c/r YV-500C.

    27 June 2002


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Caracas

    By October 2002

    To Aeroejecutivos with new c/r YV1854.

    14 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Noted in 2007 on the apron at Pompano Beach, Florida

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, FL.
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    16 February 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Opa Locka, FL, USA

    20 August 2013

    Scrapped.
    Broken up Opa Locka, FL, USA and fuselage trucked out.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     DC-1, DC-2, DC-3 The First Seventy Years (ISBN 0-85130-332-3) by Jennifer Gradidge
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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