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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-30-DK
    Last Military Serial:43-47982 USAAF
    Construction Number:13798/25243
    Last Civil Registration:N62CC {1}
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-30-DK sn 43-47982 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cook and Co/Dynamic Aviation

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    Dates

    Event

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

    3 July 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-47982.

    16 September 1944

    Transferred to 12th Air Force, Italy.

    27 September 1945

    Returned to USA.

    29 October 1945

    To Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    New construction number, 25243, assigned to the airframe.

    21 May 1947

    To Air France with new c/r F-BAXH.

    25 June 1951

    To Air Liban, Lebanon with new c/r OD-ABK.

    November 1951

    To Air France with new c/r F-BAXH.

    January 1968

    To SFA keeping c/r F-BAXH.

    28 May 1969

    To Societe Rousseau Aviation, Dinard, Bretagne keeping c/r F-BAXH.
    Based at Dinard-pleurtuit-st-malo.

    6 October 1978

    Civil registration, F-BAXH, cancelled.

    Civil registration 9Q-CSM reserved but not taken up.

    December 1983

    To Cook and Co/Dynamic Aviation with new c/r N62CC {1}.

    1 August 2014


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At 2014 Oshkosh

    By 1 May 2017

    Markings Applied: Virginia Ann, X5, J, 330647
    In the D-Day markings of C-47A-60-DL 43-30647 X5-J Virginia Ann.

    16 May 2017


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-30-DK SN 43-47982 N62CC Virginia Ann Planes of Fame Air Show, Chino CA

    Circa 3 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, California.

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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