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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:12919 CAF
    Construction Number:12425
    Last Civil Registration:N99FS
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas Municipal Airport, Douglas, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1943

    Constructed as a C-47A-10-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    7 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 12425 as a R4D-5.

    31 January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92606.

    10 February 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KG395 as a Dakota III.
    Diverted as lend-lease to the Royal Air Force.

    10 February 1944

    Transferred to RAF No. 45 Group, Dorval, Montreal.

    19 February 1944

    Arrived UK.

    28 February 1944

    Transferred to RAF No. 48 Squadron, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire.

    19 August 1944

    Transferred to Navy Transport Squadron 7 (VR-7), Naval Air Transport Service, Miami, FL.

    24 September 1945

    Transferred to No. 437 Squadron RCAF, Blakehill FARM, Wiltshire.

    16 June 1946

    To Royal Canadian Government.
    Presented to the government.

    10 July 1946

    Transferred to NAF Litchfield Park, AZ.

    26 August 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n KG395.

    November 1946

    To NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    From March 1947 to 1 August 1948

    Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training Station, Atlanta, GA.

    Remanufactured as a R4D-8.
    New construction number, 43396, assigned to the airframe.

    By 1952

    Transferred to 429 Squadron RCAF, Winnipeg.

    1952

    Transferred to No. 1 Air Navigation School, Winnipeg, MB.
    Assigned radio call of VCDHL.

    July 1962

    Redesignated as C-117D.

    Assigned to AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    June 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 12919 as a CC-129.

    20 May 1975

    Last navigator course using Dakotas ended.

    1977

    Civil registration C-GZCR reserved but not taken up.
    Was to be owned by G.E. Wilson of Calgary, but not taken up.

    1980

    To Basler Flight Services, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N89BF.

    Based at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta, GA.
    View the Location Dossier

    October 1987

    To unknown owner with c/r N99FS.
    Operating out of Panama City, FL.

    31 March 1989

    To Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas Municipal Airport, Douglas, GA keeping c/r N99FS.

    31 March 1989

    Based at Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas Municipal Airport, Douglas, GA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 6 October 1990

    Markings Applied: GREENLAND EXPEDITION SOCIETY
    In the markings of the Greenland Expedition Society - used in recovery of P-38s.

    6 October 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Warner Robins AFB Ga Airshow

    6 October 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    10 April 1991


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: On Skis at Lakeland, Florida back in 1991

    6 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at Aurora, IL

    16 April 1997

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Inc Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N106BF.
    Aircraft remained at AMARC.

    Based at Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    12 June 2000

    To unknown owner with c/r N106BF.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.

    12 June 2000

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N106BF.
    Still at Davis-Monthan on 8/28/2000.

    18 March 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Thunder in the Valley Airshow, Columbus GA

    26 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    30 April 2011

    To Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas Municipal Airport, Douglas, GA keeping c/r N99FS.

    21 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert N. Abbott Jr.

    21 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert N. Abbott Jr.

    23 August 2013

    Civil registration, N106BF, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.

    16 May 2014

    To Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas, GA with new c/r N99FS.

    9 January 2017

    To Brooks Aviation Inc, Douglas Municipal Airport, Douglas, GA keeping c/r N99FS.

    30 June 2022


    Photographer: Freddy Frank)
    Notes: N99FS takes off from runway 13 at Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Ga.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Douglas DC-3 Survivors, Volume Two by Arthur Pearcy
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols

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