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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-3A
    Last Military Serial:42-68774 USAAF
    Construction Number:11701
    Last Civil Registration:N80B {2}
    Latest Owner or Location:Mayfair Minerals, MC Allen, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-53D-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68774.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC13437.

    To unknown owner with c/r N84B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N902.

    To Mayfair Minerals, MC Allen, TX with new c/r N503 {2}.
    Chief Pilot; John B Jordan. John K. Jordan comments (20 November 2018): I flew this DC-3 with my father J.B. Jordan.

    5 December 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N80B {2} (DC3A, 11701) issued.

    21 April 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N80B {2} (DC3A, 11701) issued.

    7 November 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N80B {2}.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Ft Collins, CO.

    8 November 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N80B {2}.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fort Collins, CO.

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N80B {2} (DC3A, 11701) issued.

    1 January 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r N80B {2}.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fort Collins, CO.

    27 February 2013

    Civil registration, N80B {2}, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fort Collins, CO.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     John K. Jordan
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