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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-3-178
    Construction Number:01551
    Last Civil Registration:XC-CFE
    Latest Owner or Location:Comision Federal de Electricidad-CFE

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a DC-3-178.

    From September 1936 to March 1949

    To American Airlines with new c/r NC16013.
    Operated with markings: 127, Flagship Virginia

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-HOT.

    25 September 1950

    To Remmert-Werner Corp, Saint Louis, MO with new c/r N600D.

    3 October 1950

    Civil registration, N600D, cancelled.
    Exported to Mexico.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5873V.

    By 1960

    To Comision Federal de Electricidad-CFE with new c/r XC-CFE (Douglas DC-3-178, 1551).


    Photographer: William T. Larkins

    September 1960


    Photographer: William T. Larkins
    Notes: photographed in September 1960 at San Francisco Airport.

    22 March 1970

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. Narrative: Crashed.


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