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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-53B Skytrooper
    Last Military Serial:41-20058 USAAF
    Construction Number:04828
    Last Civil Registration:N65371
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-53B sn 41-20058 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Munchen (Munich) Airport / Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munchen (Munich), Bavaria

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-53B.

    3 November 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-20058.

    10 January 1942

    To U S War Department, Washington, DC with new c/r N34989 (C-53B, 4828).

    5 March 1942

    Transferred to Pan American Airlines for ATC.

    1 May 1943

    Transferred to African Middle East Wings ATC.

    12 May 1945

    Transferred to FEA, Cairo Division.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC34989.

    27 August 1945

    To DDL with new c/r OY-DCA.

    1 August 1948

    To SAS keeping c/r OY-DCA.

    18 August 1948

    Civil registration, N34989, cancelled.

    1950


    Photographer: SAS Museum
    Notes: at Copenhagen Kastrup, Denmark

    February 1950

    To RR with new c/r OY-KLE.

    10 January 1954

    To Kar Air with new c/r OH-VKA.

    6 February 1970

    To Norfly Air Services with new c/r LN-LKV.

    30 April 1975


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Aberdeen Airport in Scotland

    11 July 1976

    To Kar Air keeping c/r LN-LKV.

    To Kurfiss Aviation, Munich, Germany with new c/r N65371.

    16 July 1976

    Withdrawn from use at Munich.

    16 July 1976

    To Korastinsky Robert, Munich keeping c/r N65371.

    1 October 1976

    Civil registration, N65371, cancelled.
    Exported to Germany.

    To Air Classik.
    Preserved on the roof of the terminal building Frankfurt-Rhein Main International Airport in a Nor-Fly c/s.


    Photographer: Unknown

    Markings Applied: LN-KLV

    28 July 1984


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Frankfurt public viewing aerea

    Markings Applied: 65371, N569R

    1990


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: On the terrace at Frankfurt Airport Germany

    From Circa 1990 to Circa 1998

    Markings Applied: HB-IRN
    Painted in Swiss Air colours and markings with a false registration. Placed on displayed near the Spectators Mound at the Munich Airport.

    To Munchen (Munich) Airport/Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munchen (Munich), Bavaria.
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    17 March 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: C-53B c/n 4828 in historic Swissair c/s minus (fake) reg and elevator at the public viewing area at Munich Airport, Germany

    Circa 1 May 1998


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed as (false) HB-IRN at Munich Airport cica 1998

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    12 June 2019


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at Munich
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     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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