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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:VC-47D
    Last Military Serial:43-48932 USAAF
    Construction Number:14748
    Last Civil Registration:N2568 {2}
    Compressed ID:Douglas VC-47D sn 43-48932 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TC-47B-10-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 26193, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 4 October 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48932.

    Converted to a VC-47D.

    Circa 1969

    To Zephyr Aviation Inc, Zephyrsville, FL with new c/r N2568 {2}.

    1976

    To 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, NC.
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    27 May 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Fort Bragg, NC.

    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    27 July 2013


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At 82nd Airborne Museum Fort Bragg, NC
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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