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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-47A-35-DL
    Last Military Serial:23936 USN
    Construction Number:09798
    Last Civil Registration:G-DAKK
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-35-DL sn 23936 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:General Technics Ltd, Sulhamstead, Reading

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-35-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-23936.

    To unknown owner with c/r OK-WDU.

    To unknown owner with c/r OK-WDU.

    To unknown owner with c/r OK-WZB.

    To unknown owner with c/r OK-WZB.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 23936.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-YGGC.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marine Nationale.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-GEOM.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-GEOM.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-DAKK.

    To Dusseldorf Regional/Weeze Airport, Weeze, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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    To unknown owner with c/r G-DAKK.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-GEOM.

    From 26 July 1994 to 22 December 1994

    To Atlantic Air Transport Ltd with new c/r G-DAKK.

    From 22 December 1994 to 25 June 1996

    To Lindholme Aircraft Ltd keeping c/r G-DAKK.

    From 25 June 1996 to 13 October 2000

    To Meridian Aircraft Ltd keeping c/r G-DAKK.

    20 July 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This DC-3C of South Coast Airways operated a charter flight to the 1996 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Fairford.

    From 13 October 2000 to 29 January 2002

    To General Airline Ltd keeping c/r G-DAKK.

    29 January 2002

    To General Technics Ltd, Sulhamstead, Reading keeping c/r G-DAKK.

    7 January 2007


    Photographer: Ronald van der Valk
    Notes: As G-DAKK for temporary storage at the Aviodrome museum at Lelystad Airport (EHLE).

    24 September 2013


    Photographer: Alec Wilson
    Notes: Douglas DC-3 C-47 in the colours of South Coast Airways at the Aviodrome Museum, Lelystad,Netherlands - Photo displayed with written permission of Alec Wilson

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: Rob de Man
    Notes: G-DAKK will be restored

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: Rob de Man


    Photographer: Chris Redford
    Notes: South Coast Airways DC3 G-DAKK, Lydd 1996
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    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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