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Constructed as a DC-3A-453. |
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Civil registration NC30025 reserved but not taken up. |
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Converted to a C-53C. |
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13 October 1942 |
Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-2022. |
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10 May 1945 |
To Continental Airlines with new c/r NC33315. |
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9 September 1956 |
Crashed. |
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27 September 1958 |
Civil registration N89SA reserved but not taken up. |
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7 June 1967 |
To Southern Airways with new c/r N894A. |
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4 March 1974 |
To Miriam M Stevens with new c/r N32MS {2}. |
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18 December 1974 |
Certificate of airworthiness for N32MS {2} (DC3A, 4978) issued. |
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31 August 1990 |
To Excavators Leasing Corp, Medford, OR keeping c/r N32MS {2}. |
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7 March 1997 |
To Randsburg Corporation, Portland, OR keeping c/r N32MS {2}. |
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24 February 1999 |
Placed on display with Bevrijdende Vleugels Museum/Wings of Liberation Museum, Best, Noord-Brabant. |
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13 August 2002 |
To unknown owner with c/r N32MS {2}. |
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3 March 2006 |
To Delaware Warbirds Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N32MS {2}. |
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16 June 2007 |
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29 March 2010 |
To Reid Robert, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N32MS {2}. |
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January 2018 |
Certificate of airworthiness for N32MS {2} (DC3A, 4978) issued. |
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January 2018 |
To unknown owner with c/r N32MS {2}. |
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15 January 2020 |
To Reid Robert, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N32MS {2}. |
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Credits Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier... Print Sources DC-1, DC-2, DC-3 The First Seventy Years (ISBN 0-85130-332-3) by Jennifer Gradidge European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden Internet Sources Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List AMCAR Aviation Safety Network Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America Individual Contributors John Bennett |
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