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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:WC-47
    Last Military Serial:T.3-54 EdA
    Construction Number:16954
    Last Civil Registration:G-BLFL
    Compressed ID:Douglas WC-47 sn T.3-54 EdA cn 1695...
    Latest Owner or Location:Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 45-0951.

    New construction number, 34214, assigned to the airframe.

    Converted to a WC-47.

    To unknown owner with c/r N73856.

    23 April 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ejercito de Aire with s/n T.3-54.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BLFL.

    To unknown owner with c/r N951CA.

    From 14 March 1984 to 12 August 1985

    To Aces High Limited with new c/r G-BLFL.

    5 November 1985

    To Aces High Limited, Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey keeping c/r G-BLFL.

    24 May 1986


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1986 photo at North Weald, Essex, UK

    27 August 1986

    Civil registration, G-BLFL, cancelled.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Deutsches Technik Museum, Berlin, 10963 Berlin, Germany.

    Placed on display with Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
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    1999

    Placed on the roof of the museum.

    Circa 2009


    Photographer: Christian Amado
    Notes: 2003 photo taken at the Berlin Museum. Photo displayed with written permission of Christian Amado

    27 February 2009


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: John Tomlinson - in front of the C-47 at Berlin-Trebbiner Strasse Deutsches Technikmuseum, Germany

    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Laurent Heyligen

    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Laurent Heyligen
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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