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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-117D
    Last Military Serial:17140 USN
    Construction Number:12298
    Last Civil Registration:N9663N
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 17140 USN cn 1229...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dragon Air Leasing Inc, Pembroke Pines, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4D-8.

    New construction number, 43385, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17140.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    1976


    Photographer: Ray Hanson
    Notes: Taken at NAS Memphis

    1981

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Davis Monthan.

    19 July 1985

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9663N (C-117D, 43385) issued.

    From Unknown to October 1987

    To Audi Air with new c/r N9663N.

    From 8 October 1987 to 29 May 1991

    To Air 500 with new c/r C-FALL.

    22 October 1987


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1987 photo at Winnipeg - This ex-US Marines Douglas C-117D looks as if has just been hauled out of storage, with crudely painted out marks. It was probably on ferry to Alaska with Audi Air, to whom it is regd

    5 August 1989


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: At Toronto International

    30 January 1992


    Photographer: Richard Blata
    Notes: Photographed during my Florida trip in 1992 in Fort Lauderdale / FLL.

    22 September 1998

    To Dragon Air Leasing Inc, Pembroke Pines, FL with new c/r N9663N.

    Scrapped.


    Photographer: Mathew Bailey
    Notes: At Opa Locka Airport, Florida

    20 September 2013

    Civil registration, N9663N, cancelled.
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