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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:CC-129 Dakota
    Last Military Serial:12942 RCAF
    Construction Number:13485
    Last Civil Registration:N472AF
    Latest Owner or Location:Vintage Wings Aircraft Llc, Centerpoint, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-25-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93560.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KG668 as a Dakota III.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n KG668 as a Dakota III.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 12942 as a CC-129.

    1975

    To Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Department of Energy Mines and Resources with new c/r C-GRSA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N471AF.

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-SYN.

    17 February 1999

    To Aero Freight Inc Las Cruces NM with new c/r N472AF.

    Based at Fairview Airport, Fairview, TX.
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    13 April 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N472AF (DC3C-S1C3G, 13485) issued.

    Circa 2005


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Fairview Airport, Rhome - Douglas DC-3 N472AF sitting on a lawn outside a beautiful house on this Air Park

    1 May 2008

    To Diver R F Crossroads TX keeping c/r N472AF.

    Based at Gainesville Municipal Airport, Gainesville, TX.
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    1 November 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N472AF.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Bethesda, MD.

    1 January 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for N472AF (DC3C-S1C3G, 13485) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2013

    To N941AT Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N472AF.

    5 April 2013

    To Airspeed Aircraft Llc, Bethesda, MD keeping c/r N472AF.

    20 January 2016

    To Airspeed Aircraft Llc, Potomac, MD keeping c/r N472AF.

    12 May 2016


    Photographer: Gottfried Darringer
    Notes: make airworthy, St. Louis Downtown Airport

    17 May 2017

    To Vintage Wings Aircraft Llc, Centerpoint, IN keeping c/r N472AF.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    25 July 2018


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Oshkosh

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL
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