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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-47A-30-DK
    Last Military Serial:43-48234 USAAF
    Construction Number:14050
    Last Civil Registration:VH-BAB
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-30-DK sn 43-48234 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H.A.R.S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-30-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 25495, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48234.

    March 1947

    To Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) with new c/r VH-DMV.

    February 1951

    To Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) by Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) with new c/r VH-CAO.

    March 1962

    To Brain and Brown Air Freighters Pty Ltd with new c/r VH-BAB.

    To Air Express Holdings Pty keeping c/r VH-BAB.

    11 March 1976


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Melbourne Essendon

    By 1985


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1980s photo taken at Chewing Gum Field, Tallebudgera, Queensland.

    To Northern Queensland Warbirds, Australia.

    Markings Applied: X16A, JUNGLE SKIPPERS, 348234

    6 August 2005


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: In 2005 was being displayed at Northern Queensland Warbirds, Australia

    21 August 2005


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Oklahoma Gal at an Open Airport Day at Mareeba, QLD, Australia

    15 December 2014


    Photographer: Kayanne Hardsman / Central Queensland Spotting
    Notes: Photo in December 2014 during the road move from Mareeba to Caboulture

    Transferred to a museum.

    17 December 2014

    Based at Caboolture Warplane and Flight Heritage Museum, Caboolture, Queensland.
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    29 January 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At Caboolture, Australia

    To Caboolture Warplane Museum, Caboolture, Queensland.
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    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.
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    David Honner
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