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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:50834 USN
    Construction Number:26993
    Last Civil Registration:N834D
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 50834 USN cn 2699...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, North Carolina

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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 43-49732.

    Converted to a R4D-8.

    New construction number, 43324, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50834.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    To unknown owner with c/r N834D.

    17 August 1984

    To Lan-Dale Co, Reno, NV keeping c/r N834D.

    12 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Tucson

    By April 1995

    Markings Applied: 834, UNITED STATES MARINES, TM, 50834
    In USMC markings.

    8 April 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Cherry Point NC Airshow

    6 June 1997

    To Lan-Dale Co, Reno, NV keeping c/r N834D.

    20 May 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX834D (C-117D, 50834) issued.

    Based at Cherry Point MCAS, Cherry Point, NC.
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    11 June 2013

    Civil registration, N834D, cancelled.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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