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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-47H
    Last Military Serial:017 {1} NASA
    Construction Number:12287
    Last Civil Registration:XA-ROM
    Latest Owner or Location:Jorge Jimenez Cantu National Airport, Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, Fuentes San Jose, Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico City), State of Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-5-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92482.

    Redesignated as R4D-5.

    13 January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17136.

    Redesignated as C-47H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17136.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 017 {1}.
    Assigned to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, CA.

    2 May 1956


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    2 May 1956


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    23 June 1969

    To NASA with new c/r N817NA.

    6 October 1980


    Photographer: Keith Heywood
    Notes: Lancaster Fox Field

    5 June 1989

    Civil registration, N817NA, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-ROM.

    To Jorge Jimenez Cantu National Airport, Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, Fuentes San Jose, Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico City), State of Mexico.
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    By 16 May 2016


    Photographer: Marcos Nava ZarazAAa
    Notes: Now resting near Mexico City, out of Atizapan Airport (MMJC / JJC)


    Photographer: Unknown


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

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    Terry Fletcher

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