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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-47B-30-DK
    Last Military Serial:A65-85 RAAF
    Construction Number:16130
    Last Civil Registration:PK-JDG
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-30-DK sn A65-85 RAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Zamrud

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    Dates

    Event

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

    New construction number, 32878, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76546.

    4 April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A65-85.
    Used callsign VHR-FB.

    12 July 1968

    To Stan Air Inc, Fresno, CA with new c/r N15140.

    6 August 1968

    To Stanair Corp with new c/r N16130.

    21 January 1969

    Civil registration, N15140, cancelled.
    Exported to Indonesia.

    Circa February 1969


    Photographer: Mike Vincent
    Notes: Heres PK-JDB as N16130, firing up at at Adelaide-Parafield, South Australia to begin its delivery flight to Indonesia.

    July 1969


    Photographer: Peter R.Keating
    Notes: PK-JDB Singapore-Paya Lebar, late 1969. Purchased by Stan Booker from Royal Australian Air Force ex A65-85 and ferried from Adelaide to Indonesia in 1969 as N16130

    1 August 1969

    To Sempati Air Transport with new c/r PK-JDB.

    7 July 1970

    To Sempati Air Transport with new c/r PK-JDG.

    February 1972


    Photographer: Ron F. Killick
    Notes: PK-JDG Singapore-Paya Lebar, February 1972. This is PK-JDB re-registered, in new Sempati Air Transport scheme.

    September 1975


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Sempati Air Transport DC-3 PK-JDG had been purchased from RAAF ex A65-85 by Sempati co-founder, American Stanley Booker. He also operated many DC-3s in Cambodia

    From 1977 to 1981

    Leased to Zamrud.
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