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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-7
    Last Military Serial:99840 USN
    Construction Number:16484
    Last Civil Registration:N213GB
    Compressed ID:Douglas R4D-7 sn 99840 USN cn 16484...
    Latest Owner or Location:Amusement Park Madurodam, The Hague, Netherlands

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TC-47B-35-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 33232, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76900.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 99840 as a R4D-7.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5177V.

    To unknown owner with c/r N64.

    To unknown owner with c/r N44 {2}.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4405.

    29 March 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N213GB (DC3C 1830-94, 33232) issued.

    Markings Applied: 99840

    5 January 1981

    To Monroe County Mosquito Control Distkey West, FL with new c/r N213GB.

    28 June 1988


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Marathon, FL.

    13 May 1992


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1992 photo at Marathon, Florida

    August 2001


    Photographer: Steve Zerachy

    August 2001


    Photographer: Steve Zerachy

    4 August 2003

    To Howe Bros Enterprises Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N213GB.

    Based at Howe Bros, Shell Creek Airpark, Punta Gorda, FL.
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    In derelict condition.

    25 April 2008


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    31 January 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Shell Creek, Florida, U.S.A.

    16 October 2012

    Civil registration, N213GB, cancelled.

    30 April 2020

    To Amusement Park Madurodam, The Hague, Netherlands.

    Markings Applied: PH-APM
    Finished in old KLM Flying Dutchman livery, with fake registration PH-APM.

    25 May 2020


    Photographer: Erwin Alexander
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