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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-84
    Last Military Serial:42-57157 USAAF
    Construction Number:01922
    Last Civil Registration:N17312
    Latest Owner or Location:Central Cargo Inc, San Juan, PR

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as a DC-3B-202.

    April 1937

    To TWA Transcontinental and Western Air with c/r NC17312.

    May 1937


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive / Greg Wasmann
    Notes: At Burbank, California

    Converted to a C-84.

    From 9 June 1942 to 3 December 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-57157.

    3 December 1943

    To Trans World Airline with c/r NC17312.
    Operated with markings: Fleet No 350

    27 October 1950

    To Wisconsin Central Airlines with c/r N17312.

    From 1 March 1951 to December 1966

    To North Central Airlines.

    18 September 1969

    To Central Cargo Inc, San Juan, PR.

    By 1976

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Derelict at San Juan, Puerto Rica.

    By 1980

    Scrapped.

    9 July 2009

    Civil registration, N17312, cancelled.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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