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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-47J
    Last Military Serial:50811 USN
    Construction Number:15258
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47J sn 50811 USN cn 15258...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-15-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 26703, assigned to the airframe.
    Construction number 15258 was originally assigned to an A-20G-35-DO.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49442.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50811 as a R4D-6.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-47J.

    By November 1979

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    13 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of Douglas C-47J Skytrain

    By April 1988


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation, Macon, GA.

    July 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to WR-ALC/MU, Robins AFB, GA.

    By August 1993

    Based at Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
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    Markings Applied: U5-C, 349942
    False serial number.

    By 18 February 2007

    Markings Applied: Saylors Trailer, X, COM-CAR, 4349442

    18 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Warner Robins AFB Museum
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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