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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-45-DK
    Last Military Serial:45-0972 US
    Construction Number:16975
    Last Civil Registration:N8040L
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-45-DK sn 45-0972 US c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Valiant Air Command Inc, Titusville, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-45-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 34236, assigned to the airframe.

    25 July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 45-0972.

    April 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 45-0972.

    To unknown owner with c/r N48120 (C-47D, 45-0972).

    25 June 1975

    Civil registration, N48120, cancelled.

    1977

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Davis Monthan.

    28 April 1980

    To Allied Air Freight with new c/r N8040L.

    14 May 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8040L (C-47, 45-972) issued.

    26 January 1981


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Chino, CA.

    15 January 1987

    To New England Escadrille, Cambridge, MA keeping c/r N8040L.

    28 May 1997

    To Atlantic Warbirds Inc/C-47, Londonderry, NH keeping c/r N8040L.

    21 October 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: at Opa Locka / Florida

    22 April 2003

    To Valiant Air Command Inc, Titusville, FL keeping c/r N8040L.

    19 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Takan at Titusville, FL, U.S.A.

    In the inventory of Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
    Survives here missing the cockpit. It is used as a source for spare parts.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Valiant Air Command Inc, Titusville, FL keeping c/r N8040L.

    24 February 2008


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Space Coast Regional, FL

    28 May 2009

    Civil registration, N8040L, cancelled.

    By May 2011

    Scrapped.

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8040L (C-47, 45-972) issued.
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