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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:17248 USN
    Construction Number:25446
    Last Civil Registration:C-GDOG
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-117D sn 17248 USN cn 2544...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gateway Airlines, Brantford Airport, Brantford, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4D-8.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17248.

    From 1959 to 1959

    To Quantico Air Station.
    Bill Bretton commented (15 April 2014): Was one of 2 R4D-8s here when I was stationed there as an Airborne Radio Operator.

    Crashed.
    Bill Bretton commented (15 April 2014): Coming back from the west coast in 1961, we crash landed at Dyess AFB in Texas, damage to left wing, engine and landing gear.

    Repaired.
    Bill Bretton commented (15 April 2014): She was repaired and flew again a few months later.

    New construction number, 43374, assigned to the airframe.

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    To unknown owner with c/r N1334K (C-117D, 017248).

    26 July 1985


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1985 photo at Toronto - One of Millardairs C-117 (actually Douglas R4D-8) freighters. It operated on the nightly auto-parts shuttle to Detroit

    6 June 2001

    To Gateway Airlines Limited, Brantford, ON with new c/r C-GDOG.

    Based at Gateway Airlines, Brantford Airport, Brantford, ON.
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    Withdrawn from use.

    2010

    Spotted at Brantford, Ontario.

    16 December 2010


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2012 photo taken in the snow at Brantford/ON (YFD), Canada

    By 24 April 2013

    Scrapped.
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