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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-47B-15-DK
    Last Military Serial:43-49281 USAAF
    Construction Number:15097
    Last Civil Registration:N143Z {2}
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-15-DK sn 43-49281 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hill Aerospace Museum, Roy, Ogden, Utah

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-15-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49281.

    New construction number, 26542, assigned to the airframe.

    To US Army with new c/r N55C.

    To US Army with new c/r N55CE.

    To US Army with new c/r N556E.

    1974

    To US Army Aeronautical Research Facility.
    Markings added: 0-49281

    20 June 1974


    Photographer: M. J. DELGADO
    Notes: via Ron Picciani Collection.C-47B 43-49281 (MSN 15097/26542) delivered to USAAF during Nov. 1944, then converted to VC-47D during Sept. 1954. Transferred in June 1974 to the US Army Aeronautical Research Facility. Withdrawn from service during Oct. 1984. By 1987 preserved at Hill AFB Museum, Utah

    From 6 August 1980 to 1987

    To Department of Agriculture, Ogden, UT with new c/r N143Z {2}.

    Circa 1987

    Loaned to 75 ABW/MU, Hill AFB, UT.

    1987

    Placed on display with Hill Aerospace Museum, Roy, Ogden, UT.
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    8 January 1992

    Civil registration, N143Z {2}, cancelled.

    June 2002


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Olivor Cortot
    Notes: At Hill AFB Airport

    11 September 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Being painted in Hill Aerospace Museum Utah.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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     Terry Fletcher
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