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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-47A-40-DL
    Last Military Serial:42-24064 USAAF
    Construction Number:09926
    Last Civil Registration:N74589
    Latest Owner or Location:Tunison Foundation Inc, Oxford, CT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-40-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-24064.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC74589.

    10 August 1992

    To Jurmie E. Watkins Jr, Kernersville, NC with new c/r N74589.

    6 August 2008

    To Dixie Jet Services Inc, Newnan, GA keeping c/r N74589.

    3 June 2010

    To Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N74589.

    July 2010


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Oshkosh in 2010

    29 July 2010


    Photographer: Gottfried Darringer
    Notes: Tunison Foundation Oshkosh

    Based at Covington Municipal Airport, Covington, GA.
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    28 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    By 2014

    Based at Missionary Flights International, Saint Lucie County International Airport, Fort Pierce, FL.
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    3 April 2014

    To Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N74589.

    Based at Waterbury Oxford Airport (OXC), Southbury, CT.
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    Markings Applied: JD-N

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL. Markings are ID-N. Airplane named Placid Lassie.

    28 December 2018

    To Tunison Foundation Inc, Oxford, CT keeping c/r N74589.

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford D-Day Show

    4 June 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    19 June 2019


    Photographer: Ramin Fischer
    Notes: climbing out Memmingen,Germany for a parachute trop over Tannheim Summer 2019

    24 June 2019


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Grenchen LSZG

    25 June 2019


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: N74589 back track runway 24 LSZG, Grenchen

    1 May 2022


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Illinois Valley Regional Airport/KVYS

    13 May 2023


    Photographer: Airframes of Connecticut
    Notes: 2023 Westfield Airshow


    Photographer: Airframes of Connecticut
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