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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-47-DL
    Last Military Serial:41-38596 USAAF
    Construction Number:04545
    Last Civil Registration:N44V {2}
    Latest Owner or Location:Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina

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    Event

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

    22 July 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-38596.

    From 3 August 1942 to June 1944

    Operated from the following Army Air Fields: Memphis, TN; Selfridge, MI; Dodd, TX; Stuttgart, AR; Victorville, CA; and Nashville, TN.

    7 June 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Sedalia, MO.

    To R Robbins, Houston, TX with new c/r NC15585.

    1951

    To Vincent and Welch Inc keeping c/r NC15585.

    June 1963

    To Forest Leasing Corp, Bradford, PA with new c/r N15585.

    December 1966

    To Forest 0il Corp, Bradford, PA with new c/r N1916.

    April 1971

    To Crutcher Resources Corp, with new c/r N555CR.

    To Aviation Investors Inc, Houston, TX keeping c/r N555CR.

    1974

    To Air Executive Inc, Colorado Springs, CO keeping c/r N555CR.

    Circa 30 June 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for N555CR (DC3C, 4545) issued.

    30 June 1976

    To Basler Flight Service Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N555CR.

    23 November 1976

    Civil registration, N555CR, cancelled.

    15 December 1976

    To National Aviation Consultants, Breslau, ON with new c/r C-GQHK.

    October 1982

    To Big Bear Services Inc, Waterloo, IA keeping c/r C-GQHK.

    June 1983

    To Basler Flight Services, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N46BF {1}.

    15 October 1986

    To Piedmont Aviation Inc, Winston Salem, NC keeping c/r N46BF {1}.

    March 1987

    To Piedmont Aviation Inc, Winston Salem, NC with new c/r N44V {2}.

    2 March 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N44V {2} (DC3, 4545) issued.

    26 July 1989

    To Piedmont Aviation Services Inc, Winston Salem, NC keeping c/r N44V {2}.

    12 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    12 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    24 March 1992

    To U. S. Air Leasing and Services Inc, Arlington, VA keeping c/r N44V {2}.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At EAA Oshkosh.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At EAA Oshkosh.

    23 August 1996

    To Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission, Charlotte, NC keeping c/r N44V {2}.

    Based at Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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    1 January 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for N44V {2} (DC3, 4545) issued.

    3 August 2003


    Photographer: My late father Tom Fuller
    Notes: @ OSH 2003

    July 2010


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Oshkosh in 2010

    15 April 2019

    To Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte, NC keeping c/r N44V {2}.

    To Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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