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    Airframe Family: Douglas B-23 Dragon
    Latest Model:UC-67 Dragon
    Last Military Serial:39-0057 USAAF
    Construction Number:2743
    Last Civil Registration:N4000B
    Compressed ID:Douglas UC-67 sn 39-0057 USAAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-23.

    Circa 1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 39-0057.

    Redesignated as UC-67.

    1945

    To unknown owner with c/r NR33309.

    To unknown owner with c/r N40B.

    To Purdue University.
    Donated by E.W. Scripps Company, Cincinatti, OH to the university.

    1970

    To Sherman Aircraft Sales, West Palm Beach, FL.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: USAAF serial 39-0057 - this B-23 Dragon N4000B was operating with the Confederate Air Force at their 1978 Airshow at Harlingen, Texas

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: B-23 Dragon N4000B of the Confederate Air Force on display at their 1978 Airshow at Harlingen, Texas.

    April 1984


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Kendall-Tamiami, Florida

    4 May 1987

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N4000B.

    4 May 1987

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N4000B.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    13 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Polk City, FL, USA

    26 September 2011

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N4000B.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
    Notes: Golden Hill Storage Facility at Fantasy of Flight
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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