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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-32A
    Last Military Serial:42-65579 USAAF
    Construction Number:1294
    Last Civil Registration:N13784
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-32A sn 42-65579 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Defense Supplies Corporation, Washington, DC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-2.

    18 May 1934

    To Transcontinental and Western Air with new c/r NC13784.

    1941


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Douglas DC-2, NC13784, at Oakland in 1941


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    22 April 1942

    To Northeast Airlines keeping c/r NC13784.

    22 July 1942

    Redesignated as C-32A.

    22 July 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-65579.

    15 August 1942

    To Defense Supplies Corporation, Washington, DC with new c/r N13784.

    3 May 1943

    Civil registration, N13784, cancelled.

    3 November 1944

    Aircraft sold as Surplus to TACA Airlines - details thereafter unknown.
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