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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
    Last Military Serial:42-68804 USAAF
    Construction Number:11731
    Last Civil Registration:N134D
    Latest Owner or Location:Florala, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-53D-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68804.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    Circa February 1945

    To American Airlines with new c/r NC18666.
    Operated with markings: FLAGSHIP ELKINS

    Circa August 1947

    To Ozark Airlines with new c/r N18666.

    Circa 1953

    Assigned civil registration: N134D

    Circa December 1967

    Withdrawn from use.

    Circa July 1968

    To Stan Burgstein keeping c/r N134D.

    1969

    To Air Transport Leasing Corp, Tulsa, OK keeping c/r N134D.

    1972

    To IMS Inc, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N134D.

    16 May 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for N134D (DC3, 11731) issued.

    22 December 1975

    To Southern Flyer Inc, Lake Wales, FL keeping c/r N134D.

    Based at Bobby L. Chain Municipal Airport (South Side), Hattiesburg, MS.
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    1981

    Derelict at Hattiesburg, MS.

    26 July 2001


    Photographer: Ruud Leeuw
    Notes: At Hattiesburg-Bobby L.Chain Municipal Airport, MS

    16 July 2002

    To Southern Flyer Inc, Lake Wales, FL keeping c/r N134D.

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Florala, AL.
    Moved by Ron Hargrove from Hattiesburg, MS, to Florala, AL.
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    21 September 2011

    Transported by ground.
    Arrived at Zephyrhills.

    Restoration started.

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Restoration Project at Zephyrhills, Florida

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Restoration Project at Zephyrhills, Florida

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Restoration Project at Zephyrhills, Florida

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Restoration Project at Zephyrhills, Florida

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Restoration Project at Zephyrhills, Florida

    By 17 May 2014


    Photographer: Duncan Kirk

    5 September 2014

    Civil registration, N134D, cancelled.

    30 July 2017


    Photographer: Laurent Heyligen
    Notes: Noted preserved at the WWII Military vehicle Federation Museum, Lockhart, Alabama (near Florala)

    9 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Fading Peashooter painting on starboard side of N134D

    9 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N134D in front of the Zephyrhills Museum of Military History, Zephyrhills Municipal, FL


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood

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    Terry Fletcher

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