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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-117D
    Last Military Serial:50826 USMC
    Construction Number:15479
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 50826 USMC cn 154...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49663.

    New construction number, 26924, assigned to the airframe.

    20 December 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50826 as a R4D-6.

    1952

    Converted to a R4D-8.
    New construction number, 43363, assigned to the airframe.

    New construction number, 26924, assigned to the airframe.

    November 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 50826.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 50826.

    Markings Applied: 826, UNITED STATES MARINES, 50826

    By 1 January 1974

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    April 1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ. April, 1987.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 826, UNITED STATES MARINES, 50826, CZ
    Finished in the markings of H and MS-27 (Marine Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron), Cherry Point, NC, in 1968.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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