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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:C-49H-DO
    Last Military Serial:42-68688 USAAF
    Construction Number:02180
    Last Civil Registration:N1690
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-49H-DO sn 42-68688 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Centreville, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3-314.

    To Braniff International with new c/r NC21774.

    Converted to a C-49H-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    From 17 September 1942 to 20 October 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68688.

    From 21 October 1944 to 1950

    To Braniff International with new c/r NC21774.

    June 1948


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Municipal Airport

    2 September 1952

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1690 (DC3, 2180) issued.

    To Texas Eastern Transmission Corp, Shreveport, LA with new c/r N169T.

    1975

    To Academy Airlines, Griffin, GA with new c/r N1690.

    26 February 1981

    To Lower Valley Aviation, Los Fresnos, TX keeping c/r N1690.

    Circa August 1990


    Photographer: John Benton
    Notes: This C-49H s/n 42-68688 was owned at the time I photographed it by a non-profit museum group known as the Allied Air Force. The group owned several other aircraft at the time, one airworthy S-2D, and several others being restored to a static display standard. The group later went defunct at some point, possibly in the early 2000s.

    15 January 1997

    To Allied Air Force Inc, Allentown, PA keeping c/r N1690.

    Based at Allied Air Force, Allentown Queen City Memorial Airport, Allentown, PA.
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    Placed on display.

    Markings Applied: 88

    1 January 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1690 (DC3, 2180) issued.

    20 August 2004

    To unknown owner with c/r N1690.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Brookville, OH.

    To Alan Carberry, Centreville, IN.
    Purchased for $15,000 on E-Bay - for restoration project to fit with an aviation themed gas station on I-70 near Centreville.

    Based at Centreville, IN.
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    19 July 2012

    Civil registration, N1690, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Brookville, OH.

    March 2015

    Thefts of parts from the location - may lead to abandonment of the Project.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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