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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota III
    Last Military Serial:CR822 SLAF
    Construction Number:16808
    Last Civil Registration:4R-ACI
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota III sn CR822 SLAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sri Lankan Air Force Museum, Colombo Ratmalana Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a C-47B-40-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    27 June 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-77224.

    New construction number, 33556, assigned to the airframe.

    28 June 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KP254 as a Dakota III.

    From 2 June 1951 to 11 November 1959

    To British European Airways with new c/r G-AMJY.

    11 November 1959

    To Air Ceylon with new c/r 4R-ACI.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Sri Lanka Air Force with s/n CR822.

    March 1993

    Placed on display with Sri Lankan Air Force Museum, Colombo Ratmalana Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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    1 April 2015


    Photographer: Alec Berry
    Notes: Taken at Ratmalana A.B. Colombo, Sri Lanka

    23 November 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Ratmalana Sri Lanka Air Force Museum
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     DC-1, DC-2, DC-3 The First Seventy Years (ISBN 0-85130-332-3) by Jennifer Gradidge
    World Military Out of Service 2015 by Andy Marden
    World Military Out of Service 2015 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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