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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-47B-25-DK
    Last Military Serial:A65-72 RAAF
    Construction Number:15920
    Last Civil Registration:VH-AGU
    Latest Owner or Location:Latrobe Valley Regional Airport, Morwell - Traralgon, Victoria

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-25-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 32668, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76336.

    From February 1945 to 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A65-72.
    Used Callsign VHC-IO.

    From 1959 to 1964

    To Adastra Airways with new c/r VH-AGU.

    24 December 1959

    To Jeffrey Philip Trappett, Morwell, VIC keeping c/r VH-AGU.

    January 1964


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Adastra Aerial Surveys DC-3 VH-AGU at their Sydney Airport hangar in January 1964. The Adastra titles had beenreplaced by Westralian Aerial Surveys, an associate company which operated AGU and a Hudson on a survey contract in Western Australia

    October 1964

    To Sepal Pty Ltd keeping c/r VH-AGU.

    November 1974

    To East-West Airlines keeping c/r VH-AGU.

    To South Coast Aviation, keeping c/r VH-AGU.

    5 December 1976


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Melbourne Essendon

    1979

    Withdrawn from use.

    1989


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1985 photo at Archerfield

    18 April 1992


    Photographer: Chris Webster

    18 August 2005

    To Jeffrey Trappett, Morwell, VIC keeping c/r VH-AGU.

    Based at Latrobe Valley Regional Airport, Morwell-Traralgon, Victoria.
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