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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-3A
    Construction Number:02213
    Last Civil Registration:N25673
    Latest Owner or Location:Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3-277B.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC25673.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC25673.

    5 February 1964

    Certificate of airworthiness for N25673 (DC3A, 2213) issued.

    22 April 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N25673 (DC3A, 2213) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N25673.

    By 5 November 1979

    To unknown owner with c/r N130PB.

    5 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-3A of Naples Airlines division of Provincetown-Boston Airlines as seen at Naples in November 1979

    September 1989


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: DC-3A N25673 (Continental Historical Society) at HobbyFest 89 at William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Tx. Sept. 1989.

    3 May 1991

    To Provincetown-Boston Airline Inc Provincetown, MA keeping c/r N130PB.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: Most likely at Chino Airport, CA

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: Most likely at Chino Airport, CA.

    April 1997


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: DC-3A N25673 on display during Spirit Of Flight Airshow at the Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, Tx. April 1997.

    17 December 1997

    To Continental Airlines Inc, Houston, TX with new c/r N25673.

    24 February 2004

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N25673.

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N25673 (DC3A, 2213) issued.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    2 December 2016

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N25673.

    16 August 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N25673.

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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