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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-3TP
    Last Military Serial:12950 CAF
    Construction Number:12543
    Last Civil Registration:5T-MAH
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-3TP sn 12950 CAF cn 1254...
    Latest Owner or Location:Basler Turbo Conversions Inc, Oshkosh, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-10-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    15 February 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92712.

    3 March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 963 {1}.

    Circa 1945

    To No. 32 OTU, RCAF Station (S) Patricia Bay or Comox, BC.

    By September 1945

    Transferred to No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, NB.

    October 1945

    Base of operations changed.
    RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS.

    Circa April 1946

    Transferred to No. 164 (T) Squadron, Winnipeg Det.
    Supported Operation Muskox.

    August 1946

    Transferred to No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, AB.

    16 August 1946

    To Baker Lake, NWT for paradrop.

    26 August 1946

    To Churchill, Manitoba, and Baker Lake, NWT.

    30 August 1946

    To Fargo, ND, USA, to pick up Cornell ferry pilots.

    October 1946

    Churchill, Manitoba to fly US Army stores out of Coral Harbour, NWT.

    26 February 1947

    Damaged.
    Damaged a wing tip on landing at Fort St. John, BC.

    From Circa May 1947 to Circa August 1947

    Carried fuel between Norman Wells, NWT and Sawmill Bay, NWT for Photo Wing detachments, summer of 1947.

    Circa 1951

    Transferred to Air Navigation School, RCAF Station Summerside, PE.

    By April 1970

    Transferred to Air Navigation School, CFB Winnipeg.

    3 June 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 12950 as a CC-129.

    1988


    Photographer: John Winter via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photographed at the 1988 Grand Forks AFB airshow.

    Converted to a DC-3TP.

    To unknown owner with c/r N104BF (DC3, 12543).

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N104BF.

    In the inventory of Basler Turbo Conversions, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
    View the Location Dossier

    9 August 1991

    To Fleming Corp, Nashua, NE keeping c/r N104BF.

    9 March 1994

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N104BF.

    10 August 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan

    7 January 2000

    Civil registration, N104BF, cancelled.
    Exported to Mauritania.

    To unknown owner with c/r 5T-MAH.

    Transferred to a museum.
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