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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-117D
    Last Military Serial:17194 USN
    Construction Number:13005
    Last Civil Registration:N107BF
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 17194 USN cn 1300...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93128.

    Converted to a R4D-8.
    New construction number, 43352, assigned to the airframe.

    Converted to a R4D-8.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17194.

    Transferred to NAS Lemoore, CA.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    From 1997 to 2005

    To Dross Metals Inc, Tucson, AZ.
    Stored unconverted here.

    16 April 1997

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Inc Oshkosh, W I with new c/r N107BF (DC3, 17194).

    In the inventory of Basler Turbo Conversions, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    12 June 2000

    To unknown owner with c/r N107BF.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.

    By 28 August 2000

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at K-Tech, Tucson, AZ.

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: UNITED STATES NAVY, 194

    15 April 2009


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: Stored with Air restoration and Marketing (formerly Dross Metals) at Tucson, Arizona

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    23 August 2013

    Civil registration, N107BF, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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