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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-3A
    Last Military Serial:42-65580 USAAF
    Construction Number:02167
    Last Civil Registration:N22357
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-3A sn 42-65580 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Howe Bros, Shell Creek Airpark, Punta Gorda, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3-277A.

    August 1939

    To American Airlines with new c/r NC21768.

    22 May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-65580 as a C-49H-DO.

    15 April 1944

    To American Airlines with new c/r NC21768.

    17 November 1948

    To Trans Texas keeping c/r NC21768.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    31 October 1968

    To Tradewinds Aeromotive Inc, San Antonio, TX with new c/r N21768.

    By 1977

    To Air South and Florida Airlines keeping c/r N21768.

    October 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N21768 pulls in at the Miami passenger terminal in October 1977, wearing Air South and Florida Airlines titles

    21 May 1980

    To Provincetown Boston Airlines with new c/r N40PB.

    To Aero Liberlad with new c/r XA-RPN.

    25 April 1991


    Photographer: Augusto Gomez
    Notes: Photo taken at Ixtapa- Zihuatanejo, Mexico

    24 July 2000

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N22357.

    In the inventory of Basler Turbo Conversions, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    27 July 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2012 photo during tour of Baslers Factory / Yard at Oshkosh, WI.

    2015

    Canibillized to restore N133D at Shell Creek Airpark FL.

    2017

    Based at Howe Bros, Shell Creek Airpark, Punta Gorda, FL.
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    10 February 2017


    Photographer: Alec Wilson
    Notes: Forward section of Douglas DC-3A,formerly of Air Libertad SA at Punta Gorda-Shell Creek Airpark,Fl.,U.S.A
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