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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:43-49526 USAAF
    Construction Number:15342
    Last Civil Registration:N636NA {1}
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-15-DK sn 43-49526 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

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

    13 December 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49526.

    21 January 1945

    To USAAF 8th Air Force, UK.

    20 July 1945

    Returned to the United States.

    18 January 1946

    To NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, later as NACA Langley Research Center, Langley Field, VA with new c/r N827NA.

    New construction number, 26787, assigned to the airframe.

    April 1950

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    18 October 1971

    Transferred to NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH.

    By 1 March 1972

    Transferred to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, CA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N501NA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N636NA {1}.

    28 December 1983


    Photographer: Wernher Krutein
    Notes: Edwards AFB

    17 January 1985

    Civil registration, N827NA, cancelled.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 92 MXS/MXMFS, Fairchild AFB, WA.

    By 1992

    Placed on display with Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA.
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    Circa 1992


    Photographer: John Winter via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Prior to being painted as a SAC C-47, this aicraft was depicted as a C-47 during WWII.

    27 July 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    27 July 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    27 July 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    27 July 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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