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    Airframe Family: Douglas B-23 Dragon
    Latest Model:UC-67 Dragon
    Last Military Serial:39-0059 USAAF
    Construction Number:2745
    Last Civil Registration:N86E
    Latest Owner or Location:John W. Mecom, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-23.

    Circa 1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 39-0059.

    Redesignated as UC-67.

    1945

    To Pan American Airways, La Guardia NY with new c/r NR49981.

    August 1946

    To International Petroleum Co with new c/r NC49981.
    Based in Peru.

    1954

    To Esso Shipping Co, New York NY keeping c/r NC49981.

    1959

    To Chatham Chemical Corp with new c/r N86E.

    1961

    To Houston Chemical Corp keeping c/r N86E.

    8 February 1963

    To John W. Mecom, Houston, TX keeping c/r N86E.
    Based Thumrait, Oman.


    Photographer: Charles M.Daniels Collection

    By 1970

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    In open Storage at Athens Airport, Greece.

    17 August 1970

    Civil registration, N86E, cancelled.

    From 1971 to 1986

    In open Storage at Athens Airport, Greece.

    Used by Delta Aviation as an instructional trainer.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Athens Airport, Greece - Instructional airframe for the Delta Technical School in the 1970s, broken up in the Summer of 1986.

    1988

    Scrapped.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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