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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-117D
    Last Military Serial:50782 USN
    Construction Number:26403
    Last Civil Registration:C-GGKE
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 50782 USN cn 2640...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gateway Airlines, Brantford Airport, Brantford, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4D-8.

    New construction number, 43366, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50782.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    1976


    Photographer: Ray Hanson
    Notes: At NAS Memphis in 1976

    25 January 1983

    To Leroy W. Richards, Chico, CA with new c/r N25776.

    16 June 1983

    Civil registration, N25776, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    To unknown owner with c/r N2577G.

    1 June 2001

    To Gateway Airlines Limited, Brantford, ON with new c/r C-GGKE (R4D-8, 43366).

    Based at Gateway Airlines, Brantford Airport, Brantford, ON.
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    1 June 2001

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GGKE.

    Withdrawn from use.

    2010

    Spotted at Brantford, Ontario.

    16 November 2010


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: 2010 photo at Brantford/Ontario airport (YFD)

    By 24 April 2013

    Scrapped.
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