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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-53-DO Skytrooper
    Last Military Serial:42-6483 USAAF
    Construction Number:04935
    Last Civil Registration:N86584
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-53-DO sn 42-6483 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Specialists Inc, Eloy, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-53-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-6483.

    From 1945 to 1952

    To Eastern Air Lines with new c/r NC86584.
    Operated with markings: 395

    29 August 1952

    To L B Smith Aircraft Inc with new c/r N86584.

    6 July 1953

    To Capitol Air keeping c/r N86584.

    3 August 1953

    Certificate of airworthiness for N86584 (DC3-G202A, 4935) issued.

    From December 1953 to July 1964

    To MacKey Air Lines keeping c/r N86584.
    Markings added: City of Palm Beach

    To Pacific American keeping c/r N86584.

    1964

    Withdrawn from use.

    1968

    To F. L. Mercer with new c/r N86584.

    29 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, California

    From 1976 to Circa 1979

    To Air Caribbean keeping c/r N86584.

    1976

    To Old South Air Service Inc, Carolina, PR keeping c/r N86584.
    Old South Air Service Inc, Carolina, PR.

    4 June 1979


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At San Juan

    1 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Opa Locka Airport in Florida

    8 September 1987

    To Aero Specialists Inc, Eloy, AZ keeping c/r N86584.

    To Eloy Municipal Airport, Eloy, AZ.
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    19 October 2005


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: Skydive Arizonas DC-3 at Eloy, AZ

    17 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Eloy, AZ, USA

    20 January 2015

    To Aero Specialists Inc, Eloy, AZ keeping c/r N86584.

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Steffen Rhode
    Notes: Eloy, Arizona

    12 May 2023

    To Aero Specialists Inc, Eloy, AZ keeping c/r N86584.
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