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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-7
    Last Military Serial:99838 USN
    Construction Number:16468
    Last Civil Registration:N2312G
    Compressed ID:Douglas R4D-7 sn 99838 USN cn 16468...
    Latest Owner or Location:The MOTTS Military Museum, Groveport, Columbus, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TC-47B-35-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 33216, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76884.

    Redesignated as R4D-7.

    26 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 99838.

    To US Navy Department with new c/r N7073C.

    To Civil Aviation Administration with new c/r N30 {2}.

    29 March 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2312G (DC3C 1830-94, 33216) issued.

    March 1975

    To US Department of Agriculture with new c/r N87814.

    4 August 1975

    To US Department of Agriculture with new c/r N2004J.

    1976

    To unknown owner with c/r N212GB.

    7 August 1984

    To Specialty Restaurants Corp, Anaheim, CA with new c/r N2312G.

    From By October 1993 to July 2008

    Based at 101st Airborne Restaurant, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN.
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    July 2008

    To Upson CAP, Thomaston, GA.
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    To Franklin Flying Field (3FK), Franklin, IN.
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    Markings Applied: Tooie

    To The MOTTS Military Museum, Groveport, Columbus, OH.
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    21 June 2017

    Civil registration, N2312G, cancelled.

    31 July 2022


    Photographer: Grant Robinson
    Notes: (N2312G)/U5-N, Douglas TC-47B, Motts Military Museum (16468/33216), at Groveport on 31st July 2022
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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