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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-3TP
    Last Military Serial:43-15219 USAAF
    Construction Number:19685
    Last Civil Registration:PNC-256
    Latest Owner or Location:Collier Mosquito Control District, Naples, FL

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    Constructed as a C-47A-80-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15219.

    Converted to a VC-47A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15219.

    July 1968

    Transferred to 7th Special Operations Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

    May 1973

    Ferry flight. Delivered to MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Intended for retirement.

    To Department of Agriculture with new c/r N93042.

    18 January 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    29 September 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Naples Municipal, Florida - with possibly the smallest size registration on the tail !!

    To Registration Pending, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N845MB.

    10 February 1994


    Photographer: Fred Sonders
    Notes: Taken at Naples, FL.

    20 July 1999

    To Collier Mosquito Control District, Naples, FL keeping c/r N845MB.

    3 December 2002

    To unknown owner with c/r N845MB.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.

    29 April 2011

    Civil registration, N845MB, cancelled.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Oshkosh, WI.

    Converted to a DC-3TP.

    To unknown owner with c/r N845MB.

    To unknown owner with c/r PNC-256.


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