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    Airframe Family: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
    Latest Model:P-47D Thunderbolt
    Last Military Serial:450 FAPe
    Construction Number:3759
    Last Civil Registration:N987R
    Compressed ID:Republic P-47D sn 450 FAPe cn 3759...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hill Aerospace Museum, Roy, Ogden, Utah

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a P-47D.

    12 November 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-32798.

    5 April 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Venezolana.

    Donated to Peru as a display aircraft Fuerza Area del Peru - Displayed at Las Palmas, Lima, Peru.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea del Peru with s/n 450.

    1976


    Photographer: Unknown

    29 June 1999

    To Cornerstone Aircraft Parts, Cooper City, FL with new c/r N987R (P-47-30RA, 44-32798).

    25 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Surprised to find a P-47D in the yard of ARM/DMI back in 2002. Its ex Venezuala then donated to Peru as 450. Originally USAAC 44-32798, it went on to Hill AFB, UT marked 420473.

    By 2003

    To Hill Aerospace Museum, UT, keeping c/r N987R.

    To Hill Aerospace Museum, Roy, Ogden, UT.
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    Markings Applied: 420473, FT L

    22 October 2004

    Civil registration, N987R, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Roy, UT.

    26 May 2015


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Republic Aircraft P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt N987R Hill AFB Air Museum - Roy-Ogden, UT

    26 May 2015


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Terry Fletcher
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