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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-47A-75-DL
    Last Military Serial:100995
    Construction Number:19458
    Last Civil Registration:N3433E
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-75-DL sn 100995 cn 19...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-75-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-100995.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with s/n 100995.

    To unknown owner with c/r LN-IAS.

    To unknown owner with c/r PH-SCC.

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-AVG.

    9 March 1973

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3433E (DC3C-S1C3G, 19458) issued.

    3 October 1985

    To unknown owner with c/r N3433E.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Long Beach, CA.

    13 March 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Kirtland AFB, NM.

    1 January 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N3433E.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Long Beach, CA.

    12 September 2012

    Civil registration, N3433E, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Long Beach, CA.

    Withdrawn from use.


    Your Assistance is Needed: The identity of the airframe beyond this point is in question. Did it in fact go to the USAF Museum collection to be displayed at Kirtland (the museum records say it did) or did it end up at Basler in Oshkosh and is now waiting for a turbo conversion?
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    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 58 MXS/MXMFS, Kirtland AFB, NM.

    From Unknown to After 3 January 2015

    Placed on display with Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM.
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    Markings Applied: 43-15732

    26 July 2023


    Photographer: David Rickwood
    Notes: Seen in the bushes opposite the Basler facility during EAA2023 at Oshkosh

    26 July 2023


    Photographer: David Rickwood
    Notes: View of the port side of N3433E in the bushes opposite the Basler facility. Note the start of registration N3. by the cargo door and the orange colour scheme associated with its time serving with DAT as OO-AVG starting to show. Seen during EAA2023 at Oshkosh
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