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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:12952 CAF
    Construction Number:13087
    Last Civil Registration:N578PT
    Compressed ID:Douglas CC-129 sn 12952 CAF cn 1308...
    Latest Owner or Location:Preferred Airparts Llc, Kidron, OH

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93202.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 968 {1}.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 12952 as a CC-129.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GXAV.

    To unknown owner with c/r N92A.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GXAV.

    Civil registration C-GCTE reserved but not taken up.

    23 July 1985


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1985 photo at Kapuskasing, ON

    Civil registration N7164E reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration EC-659 reserved but not taken up.

    To Palfe, S. A. ARM with new c/r EC-FIN (Douglas DC-3 (C47-A20-DK), 13087).

    From May 1994 to August 1995

    Placed in storage at Son Bonet.

    Civil registration N47FL reserved but not taken up.

    August 1995


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: N47FL - Douglas C-47A/DC-3C - ARM Aeromarket at Son Bonet/Mallorca in August 1995

    6 August 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for N47FL (DC3C, 13087) issued.

    22 June 1999

    To American Warplane Heritage Llc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N47FL.

    20 January 2000

    To Distressed Area Missions Inc, MC Minnville, TN keeping c/r N47FL.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N47FL (DC3C, 13087) issued.

    Based at Smithville Municipal Airport, Smithville, TN.
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    24 January 2018

    Civil registration, N47FL, cancelled.

    3 April 2018

    To Rebels Roost, Waller, TX with new c/r N47FL.

    3 June 2019

    To Preferred Airparts Llc, Kidron, OH keeping c/r N47FL.

    13 September 2021

    To Preferred Airparts Llc, Kidron, OH with new c/r N578PT.
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    Spanish Register of Civil Aircraft Since 1920 by Jose Ramon Valero
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