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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-47H
    Last Military Serial:43-39074 US
    Construction Number:10094
    Latest Owner or Location:Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-50-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    21 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-24232.

    21 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 39074 as a R4D-5.

    August 1944

    Transferred to Marine Fighting Squadron 313 (VMF-313), Emirau, Solomon Islands.

    3 December 1944

    Base of operations changed.
    Tacloban Airfield, Leyte, Philippines, as part of Marine Aircraft Group 12.

    27 June 1945

    Transferred to Marine Aircraft Group 25, 1st Marine Air Wing.

    July 1945

    Transferred to Marine Transport Squadron 153 (VMR-153), Bougainville Island, Solomons.

    August 1945

    Transferred to HDN, Marine Aircraft Group 61.

    10 September 1945

    Transferred to HDN, Marine Aircraft Group 25.

    8 October 1945

    Transferred to HDN, Marine Aircraft Group 61, 1st Marine Air Wing.

    November 1945

    Transferred to Marine Transport Squadron 153 (VMR-153), Torokina, Bougainville.

    June 1946

    Transferred to Aircraft, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, Ewa, HI.

    19 July 1946

    Base of operations changed.
    Pearl Harbor, HI.

    August 1946

    Transferred to San Diego, CA.

    February 1947

    Transferred to Columbus, OH.

    January 1948

    Assigned to Naval Aircraft Storage Facility, Litchfield Park, AZ for storage.

    1954

    Transferred to Overhaul and Repair, Bureau of Aeronautics (BUAER), Maintenance and Support, Jacksonville, FL.

    21 October 1954

    Transferred to Naval Ordnance Test Station Project, Inyokern, CA.

    31 August 1955

    Transferred to Naval Ordnance Test Station Project, China Lake, CA.

    1 February 1957

    Transferred to NAF R (and) D, China Lake, CA.

    5 December 1957

    Transferred to Airship Early Warning Squadron 1 (ZW-1), Lakehurst, NJ.

    1961

    Transferred to Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, HI.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as C-47H.

    By 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 43-39074.

    By March 1971

    Transferred to U. S. Army Parachute Team (Golden Knights), Fort Bragg, NC.

    By March 1971

    Markings Applied: Golden Knights, 39074

    March 1971


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Ft Bragg, NC, Simmons Army Air Field. 126 film negative scanned.

    From 17 January 1972 to After April 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CB435.

    16 August 1976

    Aircraft put up for auction.

    Some sources (apparently based on the Golden Knights alumni site error) show this aircraft as having crashed in 1973, killing all aboard. In actuality, the crashed aircraft, C-47J 50781, had replaced this one.


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    Credits
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    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    China Lake Alumni
    China Lake Alumni
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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