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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:DC-9-33RC
    Last Military Serial:164605 USN
    Construction Number:47545
    Last Civil Registration:N538MD
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-9-33RC sn 164605 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-9-33RC.

    To unknown owner with c/r EC-BYL.

    To unknown owner with c/r N538MD.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 164605.

    29 June 1990

    To McDonnell Douglas Corp, Long Beach, CA with new c/r N538MD.

    13 July 1990

    Civil registration, N538MD, cancelled.

    July 1992

    Transferred to VR-60 Transport Squadron, NAS Memphis, TN.

    July 1992

    Markings Applied: 605, City of Memphis, RT

    Transferred to VR-57, NAS North Island, CA.

    Markings Applied: 605, City of San Diego, RX

    19 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS North Island, Ca

    9 June 2005

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 4C0004.

    17 October 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    2005

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 5.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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