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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota III
    Last Military Serial:XF619 RAF
    Construction Number:16294
    Last Civil Registration:5N-ARA
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota III sn XF619 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Arax Airlines

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-30-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    11 April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76710.

    New construction number, 33042, assigned to the airframe.

    13 April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KN509 as a Dakota III.

    From 1 April 1953 to 28 January 1956

    To Silver City Airways with new c/r G-AMYX (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 3, 33042).
    Operated with markings: City of Rochester

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF619 as a Dakota III.
    Carried out trooping work using temporary RAF serial XF619.

    From 28 October 1957 to 1962

    To Silver City Airways with new c/r G-AMYX.

    1962

    To British United Airways keeping c/r G-AMYX.


    Photographer: Tony Clarke Collection
    Notes: At Blackpool Airport (UK)

    8 August 1966

    To Air Charters of Ireland Ltd Dublin with new c/r EI-APJ.
    Trading as Hiberian Airlines.

    November 1966

    To Emerald Airways with new c/r N3102Q {1}.

    1967


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At London Gatwick

    2 October 1969

    To A T C Inc, Reno, NV with new c/r N485F {2}.

    29 April 1974

    Civil registration, N485F {2}, cancelled.
    Exported to Nigeria.

    1974

    To Arax Airlines with new c/r 5N-ARA.

    May 1979


    Photographer: Richard Vandervord
    Notes: At Manston

    1981

    Damaged.
    Beyond repair at Lagos, Nigeria.

    Scrapped.
    Reduced to spares.
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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