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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-47-DL
    Last Military Serial:41-18629 USAAF
    Construction Number:04790
    Last Civil Registration:N34FL
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47-DL sn 41-18629 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:G-Star School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as a C-47-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-18629.

    9 July 1943

    Took the 505th PIR (18 paratroopers) Combat team into Sicily their first actual combat mission.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC51194.

    To unknown owner with c/r N34F.

    To unknown owner with c/r N34FL.

    16 September 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N34FL (DC3C, 4790) issued.

    9 August 1984

    To Specialty Restaurant Corp, Anaheim, CA keeping c/r N34FL.

    From Unknown to Circa January 2007

    To 391st Bomb Group, Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 434790

    To G-Star School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL.
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    12 August 2012


    Photographer: Ross Cooper
    Notes: This picture was taken at the G-Star School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida.

    9 July 2013

    Civil registration, N34FL, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N34FL (DC3C, 4790) issued.

    9 March 2016


    Photographer: Vincent de Koning
    Notes: Photo taken at the Location: G-Star School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
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