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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-47A-45-DL
    Last Military Serial:42-24116 USAAF
    Construction Number:09978
    Last Civil Registration:N16400
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-45-DL sn 42-24116 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Reyes Gregorio Do Los, Surfside, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a C-47A-45-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    3 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-24116.

    15 February 1946

    To KLM with new c/r PH-TBX.

    24 March 1950

    To Compagnie Nationale Air France, Paris, Aeroport de Paris with new c/r F-BFGT.
    Based at Paris-orly.

    6 January 1959

    To Air France keeping c/r F-BFGT.

    18 September 1969

    Civil registration, F-BFGT, cancelled.

    October 1969

    To Englert Investments Inc, Miami with new c/r N16400.
    Operated by Carib West.

    4 October 1969


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: N16400 at Luton - UK on 4Oct69 - About this time Air France was modernizing its Postale Nuit fleet resulting in the disposal of all DC-3s and DC-4s, including the former F-BFGT seen here on delivery to Miami via Luton On arrival it became 8P-AAA with Carib West Airways and lasted until the mid-1970s.

    31 March 1971

    To Carib West Airways with new c/r 8P-AAA.
    Operated with markings: Bridgetown

    1975


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 8P-AAA - Douglas C-47A-45-DL (DC-3C-S1C3G) - of Carib West Airwaysat Bridgetown Grantley Adams Airport/Barbados (BGI) in 1975

    7 July 1975

    To Reyes Gregorio Do Los, Surfside, FL with new c/r N16400 (DC3C-S1C3G, 42-24116).
    It is possible the airframe was registered as N16400, but was never reflown as such and eventually abandoned in Barbados.

    6 May 1976

    Civil registration, N16400, cancelled.

    By 1978

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Derelict as 8P-AAA Grantley Adams Intl AP, Barbados.

    Scrapped.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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