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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota IV
    Last Military Serial:KJ839 RAF
    Construction Number:14178
    Last Civil Registration:N4797H
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota IV sn KJ839 RAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-1-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48362.

    New construction number, 25623, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KJ839 as a Dakota IV.

    August 1944

    Ferry flight.
    To UK Via RAF Montreal.

    17 September 1944

    Transferred to 147 Squadron Royal Air Force.

    1 June 1949

    Transferred to Armstrong-Siddeley.
    Became testbed for Mamba turboprop engine.

    To Skyways with new c/r G-APNK.

    To Bahamas Airways with new c/r VP-BAB.

    To Bahamas Airways with new c/r VP-BBM.

    To Seagreen Air Transport with new c/r VP-LIX.

    1984


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Corrosion Corner at Miami International, back in 1984

    By April 1984

    To Seagreen Air Transport with new c/r N4797H.

    16 April 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4797H (DC3, 25623) issued.

    To Patterson A/C keeping c/r N4797H.

    To Pan Ocean Airways keeping c/r N4797H.

    1992


    Photographer: Chris Redford
    Notes: print photo taken at Opa Locka 1992

    25 July 1996

    To Legion Express Inc, Opa Locka, FL keeping c/r N4797H.

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    24 April 2006


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: Normally mounted past the Lake and near to the Highway, in April 2006 it was temporarily by the entrance and Starliner.

    17 February 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: The DC-3 attraction for the Fantasy of Flight Museum - parked on the roadside of westbound Interstate 4

    By 17 May 2014


    Photographer: Duncan Kirk

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4797H (DC3, 25623) issued.

    15 June 2017

    Civil registration, N4797H, cancelled.
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