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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:CC-129 Dakota
    Last Military Serial:12910 CAF
    Construction Number:15773
    Last Civil Registration:N64766
    Compressed ID:Douglas CC-129 sn 12910 CAF cn 1577...
    Latest Owner or Location:Environmental Aviation Services Inc, Bourg, LA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    24 January 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49957.
    The delivery date is provided.

    New construction number, 27218, assigned to the airframe.

    January 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KN281 as a Dakota IV.
    Montreal, Canada.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n KN281.

    1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 12910 as a CC-129.

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Canadian Armed Forces.
    Withdrawn from use.

    Civil registration C-GFGZ reserved but not taken up.

    November 1977

    To Sharvas Investments with new c/r N64766.

    1978

    To Weldcraft Steel and Marine Inc keeping c/r N64766.

    8 June 1978

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR64766 (C-47, 27218) issued.

    3 December 1979

    To Environmental Aviation Services Inc, Bourg, LA keeping c/r N64766.

    3 June 1989


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Belle Glade, Florida

    August 1993


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: N64766 in 1993 while stationed at Houma-Terrebonne Airport, Louisiana, on stand-by for oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. Scanned slide.

    Based at Airborne Support Inc, Houma-Terrebone Airport, Houma, LA.
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    13 November 2006

    Involved in an incident.
    Right main landing gear collapsed during landing. The aircraft is currently still registered to Airborne Support Inc and listed as active on their website.

    8 December 2008


    Photographer: Jim Hogue
    Notes: At Houma-Terrebonne Airport, LA.

    July 2016


    Photographer: Ian Abbott
    Notes: Photographed at Houma-Terrabonnne Airport (HUM), Houma, Louisiana

    14 December 2018

    To Environmental Aviation Services Inc, Bourg, LA keeping c/r N64766.

    14 December 2021

    To Environmental Aviation Services Inc, Bourg, LA keeping c/r N64766.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Alley by Buck Wyndham
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    Terry Fletcher
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