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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-53C Skytrooper
    Last Military Serial:43-2022 USAAF
    Construction Number:04978
    Last Civil Registration:N32MS {2}
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-53C sn 43-2022 USAAF cn 0...
    Latest Owner or Location:Reid Robert, Mesa, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3A-453.

    Civil registration NC30025 reserved but not taken up.

    Converted to a C-53C.

    13 October 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-2022.

    10 May 1945

    To Continental Airlines with new c/r NC33315.

    9 September 1956

    Crashed.
    Summary: The damage to the airframe was substantial. The domestic scheduled passenger flight departed Tulsa (unknown airport), OK, United States of America and was destined for Bartlesville Airport, OK (BVO/KBVO), United States of America. The accident occurred at Bartlesville, OK (United States of America) while en route. The airframe was repaired. Narrative: The DC-3 departed Tulsa at 14:18 CST for a VFR flight to Bartlesville. It approached Bartlesville and about to enter a downwind leg of the traffic pattern when it collided with a Cessna 170B aircraft at 1700 feet msl...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    27 September 1958

    Civil registration N89SA reserved but not taken up.

    7 June 1967

    To Southern Airways with new c/r N894A.

    4 March 1974

    To Miriam M Stevens with new c/r N32MS {2}.

    18 December 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for N32MS {2} (DC3A, 4978) issued.

    31 August 1990

    To Excavators Leasing Corp, Medford, OR keeping c/r N32MS {2}.

    7 March 1997

    To Randsburg Corporation, Portland, OR keeping c/r N32MS {2}.

    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}.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    3 March 2006

    To Delaware Warbirds Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N32MS {2}.

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Best, Netherlands

    29 March 2010

    To Reid Robert, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N32MS {2}.
    Not moved from the Netherlands when the ownership changed.

    January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N32MS {2} (DC3A, 4978) issued.

    January 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N32MS {2}.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    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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