Dates

Event

Constructed as a C-47B-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

New construction number, 27008, assigned to the airframe.

Circa 1943

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49747.

Redesignated as R4D-6.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50837.

To unknown owner with c/r N7998A.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50837.

6 January 1986

To Air Sales Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N375AS.

27 October 1999

Civil registration, N375AS, cancelled.

To Millville Army Air Field Museum, Millville AAF, New Jersey, NJ.
Only the nose section survives with the museum.
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28 March 2014

Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
Notes: The nose section of this venerable C-47 serves as a portable public relations piece for the museum. It apparently served both in the U.S. Navy (Bu50837) and U.S. Army Air Force (43-49747), It also wore civil registrations N7998A and N375AS.

8 November 2020

Photographer: Bob Leicht
Notes: Bu No 50837 has been restored in the livery of 43-48332, a C-47B of the 80th Troop Carrier Sqdn, 436th Troop Carrier Group. Group C.O. Col A. Williams flew this aircraft, and nose art is a tribute to his wife, Mary Daly Williams.

8 November 2020

Photographer: Bob Leicht
Notes: Mission symbols for 436th Troop Carrier Group: 2 combat airborne drops, 3 combat glider tows, 5 combat equipment drops, and gt;40 equipment runs, 4 MedEvac missions.