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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-47A-90-DL
    Last Military Serial:43-16084 USAAF
    Construction Number:20550
    Last Civil Registration:N139JR
    Latest Owner or Location:Rhodes International Inc, Seymour, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-90-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-16084.

    To unknown owner with c/r N16475.

    To unknown owner with c/r N131.

    Circa 1979


    Photographer: Phil Brooks
    Notes: At Columbus IN Municipal Airport (KBAK) with the old Bakalar AFB hangar.

    5 February 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N139JR (DC3C, 20550) issued.

    18 October 1995

    To Rhodes International Inc, Seymour, IN with new c/r N139JR.

    Based at Columbus Municipal Airport, Columbus, IN.
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    21 October 1998

    To Rhodes International Inc, Seymour, IN with new c/r N139JR.

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N139JR (DC3C, 20550) issued.

    7 August 2011


    Photographer: Roger Janssens
    Notes: At Columbus Municipal Airport, IN (CLU/KBAK).

    Withdrawn from use.

    10 December 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N139JR.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Grandview, MO.

    3 September 2014

    Civil registration, N139JR, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Grandview, MO.

    9 June 2022


    Photographer: Phil Brooks
    Notes: KBAK - awaiting disposal after being damaged in a windstorm on the previous May 21st. The last half of her life was spent based at Columbus, Indianas Municipal Airport.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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