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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:TC-47J
    Last Military Serial:50822 USN
    Construction Number:15432
    Last Civil Registration:N400MF
    Compressed ID:Douglas TC-47J sn 50822 USN cn 1543...
    Latest Owner or Location:N400M Llc, Anchorage, AK

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    Dates

    Event

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

    New construction number, 26877, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49616.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50822 as a R4D-6.

    Converted to a R4D-6R.

    Converted to a DC-3C.
    Modified by North Central Airlines.

    From 1956 to 1965

    To North Central Airlines with new c/r N2400.

    10 October 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2400 (DC3-G202A, 26877) issued.

    1962

    Redesignated as TC-47J.

    15 February 1966

    Transferred to NAF Litchfield Park, AZ.

    18 May 1984

    To Missionary Flights and Services Inc, Fort Pierce, FL keeping c/r N2400.

    18 May 1984

    To Missionary Flights and Services Inc, Fort Pierce, FL with new c/r N400MF.

    18 November 1987


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: N2400 Douglas DC-3 Missionary Flights International. Undergoing some maintenance at its home base of West Palm Beach International

    To Missionary Flights International, Saint Lucie County International Airport, Fort Pierce, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    20 August 1997

    To Missionary Flights and Services Inc, West Palm Beach, FL keeping c/r N400MF.

    21 July 2009

    To Missionary Flights and Services Inc, Fort Pierce, FL keeping c/r N400MF.

    8 April 2015

    To Kingdom Air Corps Inc, Sutton, AK keeping c/r N400MF.

    9 May 2015


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Great Falls, Montana.

    28 July 2021

    To N400M Llc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N400MF.

    18 May 2022


    Photographer: Gerry Barron
    Notes: Palmer Airport, Alaska
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     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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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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