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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-53C Skytrooper
    Last Military Serial:DO-11 FiAF
    Construction Number:06346
    Last Civil Registration:OH-LCH
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-53C sn DO-11 FiAF cn 0634...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airveteran Oy, Helsinki Malmi Airport, Helsinki, Uusimaa

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3A-453.

    Civil registration NC34953 reserved but not taken up.

    13 April 1942

    To Douglas Aircraft Co Inc, Santa Monica, CA with new c/r N34953 (DC-3A-S1C3G, 6346).

    2 July 1942

    Civil registration, N34953, cancelled.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-2033 as a C-53C.

    2 June 1948

    To Aero O/Y with new c/r OH-LCH.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Finnish Air Force with s/n DO-11.

    1985

    To Airveteran with new c/r OH-LCH.

    To Airveteran OY, Helsinki Malmi Airport, Helsinki, Uusimaa.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford D-Day Show

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    5 June 2019


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Departing the Daks over Duxford UK event for Normandy, France

    10 June 2019


    Photographer: Ramin Fischer
    Notes: Berlin Airlift memorial Wiesbaden Army Airfield (WIE/ETOU)
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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