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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-3A
    Last Military Serial:42-68747 USAAF
    Construction Number:11674
    Last Civil Registration:N101SF
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-3A sn 42-68747 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Doctors Mesa Airport, Orchard City, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a C-53D-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    3 April 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68747.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    May 1945

    To Northwest Airlines with new c/r NC33334.
    Operated with markings: 334

    To Pan American Southern Corporation with new c/r N33334.

    1953

    To Hughes Tool Co, Houston, TX keeping c/r N33334.

    25 July 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N101SF (DC3A, 11674) issued.

    1969

    To Storm Drilling Co, Houston, TX keeping c/r N33334.

    February 1975

    To C. C. Holt keeping c/r N33334.

    Circa May 1975

    To Tricon International Airline, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N33334.

    6 April 1979

    To Nevada Airlines, Las Vegas, NV with new c/r N101SF.

    Circa 21 August 1979


    Photographer: Paul Cicci
    Notes: Photo taken at the Brownsville, Texas airport (BRO/KBRO)

    19 November 1980

    To Agriculture Farms Inc, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N101SF.

    January 1982

    To Commercial Aircraft Inc Yukon keeping c/r N101SF.

    17 May 1982

    To Pat C. Duncan, Fort Lauderdale, FL keeping c/r N101SF.

    8 February 1992

    To Pat C. Duncan, Fort Lauderdale, FL keeping c/r N101SF.

    Based at Doctors Mesa Airport, Orchard City, CO.
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    29 July 2013

    Civil registration, N101SF, cancelled.

    2017


    Photographer: Ruud Leeuw
    Notes: Rarely photographed, esspecially in its present location near Eckert,CO: Douglas C-53D N101SF (c/n 11674).In 1982 the registration expired (for Pat C. Duncan of Florida). It probably flew to the primitive airstrip nearby,Doctors Mesa but it must have been quite a haul to get it up to the ranch!
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