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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-1-DK
    Last Military Serial:43-48415 USAAF
    Construction Number:14231
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-1-DK sn 43-48415 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Intelligence HQ, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

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

    New construction number, 25676, assigned to the airframe.

    August 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48415.

    September 1944

    Transferred to 316th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Cottesmore (Station 489) in the UK.

    15 December 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 348415.
    Callsign F-RANW.

    25 October 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force with s/n 348415.

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48415.

    27 September 1968

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 34815.

    11 October 1980


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: In storage at Davis-Monthan

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Lackland AFB (TX), AFISRA/HO, San Antonio, TX.

    Placed on display with Air Intelligence HQ, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 43-201
    Marked to represent an EC-47D.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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